[DocCountry]

I have a W98 se box that lost its motherboard. I purchased a new one with cpu. all other componenets the same. I powered up and have been slowly seeing the various driver panels PCI to blah blah blah, . It has been getting better and better as the drivers have been reset., the mouse started working and I could run the Via setup disk from the CD. After installing the the video driver from the new motherboard disk the video does not work. There was an error in the driver install but I could not tell why,. the screen goes black after the splash screen. I can safe boot but I cannot use the CD to try to reinstall the video driver in safe mode.
is there a way to get back to a " standard pci video " through a dos prompt? There is just to much info and history on this HD to format and clean install..
Thanks.
Dc

[jephree]

Sorry for the delayed reply.

Do you have a AGP or PCI graphics card or is your graphics chip on the motherboard?

What is the Display adapter listed in the Device Manager?

In a worst case scenario you can slave that drive on another computer to retrieve data.

[Dan Penny]

To have windows "reassign" the standard VGA display adapter, boot to Safe Mode.
Right click on My Computer.
Choose Properties.
Choose Device Manager.
Dbl-click on Display Adapters.
Dbl-click on the adapter which surfaces.
Choose the Driver tab.
Click Update Driver.
Click Next.
Choose Display a list of all the drivers....etc
Ensure Display Adapters is highlighted then click Next.
Choose Show all hardware then above click [Standard display types].
On the right, click on Standard PCI Graphics Adapter [VGA] (if this is what you had previously)
Click Next
Click Next
The machine will want to restart. When it boots normally (non Safe Mode), you should have the standard adapter back.

If you're adding drivers for on-board video from the motherboards driver CDROM, it's as yet unclear why it is not working. Are you sure of the source files matching the chipset? From your posting it doesn't sound like you have a seperate video card you're trying to install.

Post back with your results.