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I am trying to refurbish a Compaq Presario 1650 laptop.
It came to me secondhand with crashed hard drive and no Compaq
software. Got it running well with a generic Win 98SE, though screen
resolution was only VGA.
To get decent screen resolution I had to use the MAGICGRAPH128XD
(6.16) DRIVER VERSION 4.10.01.0009, which runs under Win 98 (took a
lot of searching on the web to get that one).
To improve my access to hard ware I now want to upgrade the OS to Win
ME.
Does anybody know whether a video driver for the Presario 1650 is
included in Win ME? Or will the existing MagicGraph128XD still work?
Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq (More info?)
"Richard Wright" <richwrigREMOVE@tig.com.au> wrote in message
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>I am trying to refurbish a Compaq Presario 1650 laptop.
>
> It came to me secondhand with crashed hard drive and no Compaq
> software. Got it running well with a generic Win 98SE, though screen
> resolution was only VGA.
>
> To get decent screen resolution I had to use the MAGICGRAPH128XD
> (6.16) DRIVER VERSION 4.10.01.0009, which runs under Win 98 (took a
> lot of searching on the web to get that one).
>
> To improve my access to hard ware I now want to upgrade the OS to Win
> ME.
>
> Does anybody know whether a video driver for the Presario 1650 is
> included in Win ME? Or will the existing MagicGraph128XD still work?
What hardware are you trying to support that Me supports and 98 does not?
Me is NOT a good upgrade. Buggy, unreliable OS.
Richard Wright wrote:
> I am trying to refurbish a Compaq Presario 1650 laptop.
>
> It came to me secondhand with crashed hard drive and no Compaq
> software. Got it running well with a generic Win 98SE, though screen
> resolution was only VGA.
>
> To get decent screen resolution I had to use the MAGICGRAPH128XD
> (6.16) DRIVER VERSION 4.10.01.0009, which runs under Win 98 (took a
> lot of searching on the web to get that one).
>
> To improve my access to hard ware I now want to upgrade the OS to Win
> ME.
>
> Does anybody know whether a video driver for the Presario 1650 is
> included in Win ME? Or will the existing MagicGraph128XD still work?
Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq (More info?)
On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 12:33:14 GMT, "Tom Scales" <tomtoo@softhome.net>
wrote:
>
>"Richard Wright" <richwrigREMOVE@tig.com.au> wrote in message
>news:t15l2194pam9k9rfkd7sthmsooro6q0if0@4ax.com...
>>I am trying to refurbish a Compaq Presario 1650 laptop.
>>
>> It came to me secondhand with crashed hard drive and no Compaq
>> software. Got it running well with a generic Win 98SE, though screen
>> resolution was only VGA.
>>
>> To get decent screen resolution I had to use the MAGICGRAPH128XD
>> (6.16) DRIVER VERSION 4.10.01.0009, which runs under Win 98 (took a
>> lot of searching on the web to get that one).
>>
>> To improve my access to hard ware I now want to upgrade the OS to Win
>> ME.
>>
>> Does anybody know whether a video driver for the Presario 1650 is
>> included in Win ME? Or will the existing MagicGraph128XD still work?
>
>
>What hardware are you trying to support that Me supports and 98 does not?
>Me is NOT a good upgrade. Buggy, unreliable OS.
>
>Tom
>
A USB PenDrive, for a start - hopefully. PenDrive's software is
supposed to support Win98, but it doesn't for me (and for many others,
to judge by Google).
Point is that I already have legit ME upgrade disk.
Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq (More info?)
Friends don't let friends install WinMe.
HH
"Tom Scales" <tomtoo@softhome.net> wrote in message
news:eMCWd.151882$JF2.131797@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
>
> "Richard Wright" <richwrigREMOVE@tig.com.au> wrote in message
> news:t15l2194pam9k9rfkd7sthmsooro6q0if0@4ax.com...
>>I am trying to refurbish a Compaq Presario 1650 laptop.
>>
>> It came to me secondhand with crashed hard drive and no Compaq
>> software. Got it running well with a generic Win 98SE, though screen
>> resolution was only VGA.
>>
>> To get decent screen resolution I had to use the MAGICGRAPH128XD
>> (6.16) DRIVER VERSION 4.10.01.0009, which runs under Win 98 (took a
>> lot of searching on the web to get that one).
>>
>> To improve my access to hard ware I now want to upgrade the OS to Win
>> ME.
>>
>> Does anybody know whether a video driver for the Presario 1650 is
>> included in Win ME? Or will the existing MagicGraph128XD still work?
>
>
> What hardware are you trying to support that Me supports and 98 does not?
> Me is NOT a good upgrade. Buggy, unreliable OS.
>
> Tom
>
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