How to find a video driver

[Sadi2]

Copied from the video group, updated, and hopefully will
get a response here...
>-----Original Message-----
>I observed a fuzziness in my fonts after a windows XP
>upgrade from Win98. It appears that XP loaded some sort
of a default
>video driver for my AGP adapter. The driver name is
>VgaSave, and all the personality fields in the adapter
>tab (chip, DAC, memory, Adapter string, and Bios info)
>are listed as Unavailable. In addition, in the resources
>tab, all are listed with conflicts (2 I/O ranges and
>a memory range) as conflicting with VIA Tech CPU to AGP
>controller.) The only thing that allows reasonable
>viewing of fonts on the screen is to set HW acceleration
>to None in the troubleshooter (I am assuming that this
>severely limits video throughput).
>Questions:
>1) How do I find out which AGP adapter I am using (i.e.
>how do I snoop for the Adapter String)- I hope this can
>help me identify a proper driver for this card
>2) Directions from the "settings" troubleshooter
>recommend updating the driver; unfortunately, the driver
>tab does not show an "Update Driver" button.
>
>Any help will be most appreciated!
>Sadi2
>
>.
>

[peter]

The first thing I would do is update the VIA drivers for your mobo
http://www.viaarena.com/
Then I would shut my machine down and opening the cover find the video =
card and pull it out to read the manufacturers name and part number on =
the card.I would use google to search for the website of the =
manufacturer and look for XP drivers for the card.
peter
"Sadi2" > wrote in message =
...
| Copied from the video group, updated, and hopefully will=20
| get a response here...
| >-----Original Message-----
| >I observed a fuzziness in my fonts after a windows XP=20
| >upgrade from Win98. It appears that XP loaded some sort=20
| of a default=20
| >video driver for my AGP adapter. The driver name is=20
| >VgaSave, and all the personality fields in the adapter=20
| >tab (chip, DAC, memory, Adapter string, and Bios info)=20
| >are listed as Unavailable. In addition, in the resources=20
| >tab, all are listed with conflicts (2 I/O ranges and=20
| >a memory range) as conflicting with VIA Tech CPU to AGP=20
| >controller.) The only thing that allows reasonable=20
| >viewing of fonts on the screen is to set HW acceleration=20
| >to None in the troubleshooter (I am assuming that this=20
| >severely limits video throughput).
| >Questions:
| >1) How do I find out which AGP adapter I am using (i.e.=20
| >how do I snoop for the Adapter String)- I hope this can=20
| >help me identify a proper driver for this card
| >2) Directions from the "settings" troubleshooter=20
| >recommend updating the driver; unfortunately, the driver=20
| >tab does not show an "Update Driver" button.
| >
| >Any help will be most appreciated!
| >Sadi2
| >
| >.
| >


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