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- From: hughes@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (S. Hughes)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: S3 Pprobles [was Re: ATI ultra drivers]
- Message-ID: <19404@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 17:13:00 GMT
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- ghewes@spchp9.BBN.COM (Gerald Hewes) writes:
- : see anything. Since the NT setup is 100% graphical I had no choice than
- : reinstalling ALL of NT. Windows 3.1 does not have this problem since
- : it supplies a character based setup.exe. It has been very useful in the past.
- : Is MicroSoft considering such character based (probably DOS based)
- : setup program to at least get you out of corners.
-
- I've found that if you do the initial install using the VGA driver,
- you can then experiment all you want with video drivers. If you get
- to where you can't read the screen, just boot from the Emergency
- Repair disk. It will reinstall the VGA driver. (I'm not sure what
- other potentially bad things it might do, so beware)
-
- Shayne Hughes
- hughes@eecs.ucdavis.edu
-