Paul Quinn -> August Abolins said..

 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.

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

After another visit to the pc (remote site), I noticed that the VGA driver
is actually "not functioning properly" according to Device
Manager.   The pc is a specific DELL, so I am going to try the video
drivers that it offers on the support site before I resort to a PCI video
card.   It's a bit of a bother to work on this pc since there is absolutely
no internet access at the location.

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