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Possible to upgrade to 256 colors?
C:>msd :
video adapter type = VGA
display type = VGA color
video mode = 3
columns = 80
rows = 25
video bios = video seven bios code, version 2.18k.
vesa support installed = noCMOS :
card = VGA & color monitor
mark = video seven 1024K
mode = 80 x 25, colorThe video card is Headland Technologies', FCC ID: D2AFWS, monitor is HP ergo super VGA. The default driver chosen by setup program when installing windows was Video seven 512kb.
For 256 colours @ 640x480 resolution under Win3xx you need:
512K Video ram
the correct Win3xx SVGA video driver for your particular video card/chipset.
It seems that you have enough VRAM, although not too many system analyzers (such as MSD) accurately report anything over basic VGA - 256K.
You could search for the driver at driverguide.com etc. or maybe try SVGA.exe from Mick C's excellent Win31 page.
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WW0981UD.EXE & SVGA.exe were released by Microsoft to update Windows 3.1 to 3.11 (without workgroups) standard. SVGA.exe is provided by default in Windows for Workgroups.
It can be found on my Win3x Resource Page.
(Follow jboy's link or my own above)
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I tried SVGA.EXE, no way.
The disks I mentioned (V71024I1 etc...) are the "Headland Presentation Manager installation program". I don't think this will do ??
x86, you mean the SVGA kit ?
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Well, you may need to search a bit.
(Nice BBs site, by the way)
Here's a likely one from WinSite.
You may want to give Syschk a try as well - it does a better job than MSD.
Good luck.
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Ellatha.com lists Headland @
http://www.ellatha.com/Computing/Video_Adapters/Headland.html
As Scitechsoft @
http://www.scitechsoft.com/index.html
Is the info you gave from the card chip?
Since you still need the Modal Number of your card.
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Bingo !!! The Winsite driver seems to work fine. Thank you all so much.
Sorry Mick, don't know what a "modal number" is. The FCC ID is written on the card.
Anyway CMOS utilities appear to be having their "tricky day" on this computer. Some say there's a video seven 512k, others say it's a video seven 1024k, others say the video card is unknown but chipset belongs to Cirrus Logic Video Seven and video memory size is 256k of DRAM, others say there's a NCIPHER sound card and others say there's an ADLIB sound card (there's nothing inside the CPU that looks like a sound card).
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Hey, glad that was the one.
It's not uncommon to get different results from different analyzers, especially with regard to video info - just so many models & configurations. As well, SVGA didn't originally conform to a set standard.
Some video cards allow for VRAM to be added - I have a couple of older cards with '1024' as part of the name (but actually aren't). You might be able to look at the card and identify how much ram is on it, but if it's displaying 256 colours now then it has at least 512K.
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As long as you have it working, All is OK!
Could well be a Video Seven Card since Headland seem to have supplied chips to them as well as others over the years!
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