Hi! August,

On 19 Mar 12 14:49, you wrote to me:

 AA> I've never encountered this issue with XP.  The OS usually takes care
 AA> of the video part and extracts the driver support from its system
 AA> area, no?

Yeah, that's as I thought also.  The only exception is usually hardware
newer than the OS but the generic drivers generally work since most
hardware is backward compatible to the VGA/SVGA industry standards.

 AA> Anyway..  I plan to try a 3rd party PCI video product that comes
 AA> supplied with its drivers on CD.   This may be a challenge since
 AA> good-quality PCI is quite scarce now.

I only know that I have a couple here in old PC wrecks.  I wasn't aware
that they're scarce now.  ;-)

Cheers,
Paul.

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