thinkpad 360ce not working with 256 colors

[linuxlove]

well, after reading that my thinkpad can support 640x480 at 256 colors on screen i try it in windows 95's options. i reboot and i logon... and it tells me that my display options do not work with the display adapter or monitor. great. well, what do i need to do to get windows 95 to see that this laptop will support 256 colors?

 

[Vlad]

Is the driver installed?

 

[linuxlove]

well, the driver for teh video adapter is installed, however i don't know what monitor to choose in add new hardware.

 

[patscc]

driver

driver

It sounds like Win95 sees it as only a plain 16-color VGA on a basic VGA monitor.
Is it the actual thinkpad driver, or the Win95 driver ? There should be a driver pack on the CD, or on the IBM web site that has drivers for the video chip, the motherboard, and the inf file for the LCD screen.
patscc

 

[Terry Yager]

well, the driver for teh video adapter is installed, however i don't know what monitor to choose in add new hardware.

LCD, 800x600

--T

 

[linuxlove]

ok, i may have found the problem: it's using western digital (512k) video drivers instead of WD90C24 drivers. however, doing a search for "WD90C24 drivers windows 95" turned up nothing. help anyone?

EDIT: found drivers for windows 3.x, but not windows 95.

 

[Terry Yager]

Try ibm.com, they might still have the drivers. If I can find the power supply for my 360PE, I'll check if the driver is the same (it should be).

--T

 

[patscc]

Toshiba T1960

Toshiba T1960

Supposedly a Toshiba T1960 uses the same graphics chip, if anyone's got the driver to that.
patscc

 

[linuxlove]

Try ibm.com, they might still have the drivers. If I can find the power supply for my 360PE, I'll check if the driver is the same (it should be).

--T

IBM.com has no drivers. Driverguide has no drivers. The only hope I have now is for those people who still have stuff with a WD90C24 and win95 drivers...

 

[Terry Yager]

Try IBM Canada and do a search on your model number:

http://www.ibm.com/support/ca/en/

--T

 

[Unknown_K]

This page has Win 3.1 drivers for the WD90C24A video chip

http://ftp.toshiba.ca/support/download/files_Archive/display/svga857.exe

If you wanted to test it and see if you get 256 colors. If it works then just backtrack the Toshiba model numbers listed for win95 drivers.

 

[linuxlove]

i downloaded the drivers... no go. it's a shame that toshiba has such cryptic names like 982551.zip; you don't know what it will do x.x

then i did add new hardware with new hardware search, it found wester digital drivers and it... faled

 

[gbbijl]

I know this is a very old topic, but I found it anyway, and I want to share my experience with this chip:

256 colors in Windows 95/98 is possible, if you load the VESA-driver with config.sys as well. So: Install the driver for DOS, and load it, and you'll be able to use 256 colors in Windows 95/98.