Hello all, I have an old computer which I want to use for some stuff. I have a CRT of 17", View & View Aquaview 7GS. For some reason the highest resolution I get is 800x600px 16Bit. The CRT supposedly supports upto 1280x1024px... I'm suspecting that's because of a bad driver... however all the driver scanning tools say that it's the correct driver, that it is a good working driver... yet I still get that crappy resolution. Another thing is, I've tried looking for a different driver online but I don't seem to find it, it's a Trident Microsystems 96XX/938X Video Accelerator. The companys' driver section is down, so I can't get anything official and to make things worse, I can't find any other. If you have a link with that driver, it I will be very (very) greatful. Or perhaps if any have a suggestion to make it work, at least at 1024x768. Thanks, Albert

Do you have enough video memory to support that resolution ? There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.

That Trident model is an OLD card! They were considered to be better than average cards when they first came out, but you may be somewhat restricted as to what numbers of colors and resolutions it is capable of. You can easily obtain used video cards that have better capabilities very cheaply. Assuming the video card drivers are installed correctly - this card is so old Windows (even Win95) probably already has the drivers for it and installs them automatically and they will work fine - you don't need to look for newer drivers....... To get the maximums the video card supports, Windows must know what your monitor is capable of. In order to do that the drivers for the monitor must be installed. Windows will then only allow you to have the combinations that both the video card and the monitor support. If this old video card does not support the maximums the monitor supports, those higher monitor settings will not be available. If you have the drivers floppy or CD that originally came with the monitor, install the drivers. If you don't have the drivers....... Aquaview 7GS View and View Technologies www.vnvtech.com - web site is not there. I searched the web for drivers for it - did not find any in 15 minutes. Not good. I tried searching using the model number, that and Aquaview, Aquaview alone, View and View, View and View Technologies, all of those with drivers. You have an "also-ran" orphan! you could try www.driverguide.com Log In: drivers Password: all Ignore the warning on the resulting page, scroll down a bit, click on the highlighted click here. You have to answer all the questions on the resulting page and agree to at least one. Choose Basic search at left. You get the best results when you type something in the keyword line - View and View is not likely to be listed farther up in the lists on monitor manufacturers. If you have no luck in finding drivers, you can make do with standard Windows drivers and at least have a better situation than you now have. RIGHT click on any blank area on the main part of your desktop screen - then Properties - Settings tab If it says you have a PNP monitor, that is a decent setting. If it doesn't, click on the Advanced button at lower left - choose the Monitor tab - Properties - Driver tab - Update Driver - click on the tiny circle to activate "Install from a list....." , click on Next - click on the tiny circle to activate "Don't search...." - if you see Plug and Play Monitor listed, select it. If you don't see Plug and Play Monitor, click on the tiny square to de-activate the checkmark. Scroll to the top of the list at left - choose Super VGA - 1280 x 1024 In either case, Windows will install a monitor driver.Windows will then only allow you to have the combinations that both the video card and the monitor support, at the Display - Settings screen.

Those antiques usually maxed out at 2Mb VRAM - if the card has empty sockets, then you've only got 1Mb DxDiag should tell you All the monitor drivers in the world won't change that Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is not more a science than a heap of stones is a home

i agree with above, nothing to do with the monitor, i believe the graphics card cant put out any higher resolution on 16bit colour due to lack of memory on it. I suspect if you changed to lower colour setting it would allow higher resolution - that would prove it in my view.

"I suspect if you changed to lower colour setting it would allow higher resolution " Yes that's often the case with those old cards. There may only be 256 colors at the highest resolution. These cards were made long before there was such a thing as Microsoft DirectX, and they may not work properly in some situations that require DirectX.