RickNel
Veteran Member
I've built a 486 system on an ASUS motherboard, DX-2 50Mhz CPU, Award BIOS, 32Mb RAM, 256k cache.
I have both VESA local bus and standard ISA bus VGA cards.
I found drivers supposed to match the Trident VGA chipsets on both cards.
Win95 upgrade over Win3.11 is loaded and working.
Win95 device discovery shows "Trident Super VGA" in Device Manager. But I can't get the system to accept greater than 640x480 resolution for the VLB card, regardless what settings I put in for the monitor. For bench tests, I am using a generic LCD monitor with 1280 resolution available.
With the non-VLB straight ISA card, I can get 800x600 resolution, but nothing higher.
Could this be a BIOS limitation? I think the video BIOS normally is independent of system BIOS.
Could the LCD monitor be the problem? I have a couple of SVGA CRTs I can get out of storage if necessary.
Any recommendations on Trident drivers or management software for 486?
Rick
I have both VESA local bus and standard ISA bus VGA cards.
I found drivers supposed to match the Trident VGA chipsets on both cards.
Win95 upgrade over Win3.11 is loaded and working.
Win95 device discovery shows "Trident Super VGA" in Device Manager. But I can't get the system to accept greater than 640x480 resolution for the VLB card, regardless what settings I put in for the monitor. For bench tests, I am using a generic LCD monitor with 1280 resolution available.
With the non-VLB straight ISA card, I can get 800x600 resolution, but nothing higher.
Could this be a BIOS limitation? I think the video BIOS normally is independent of system BIOS.
Could the LCD monitor be the problem? I have a couple of SVGA CRTs I can get out of storage if necessary.
Any recommendations on Trident drivers or management software for 486?
Rick