No display adapter listed in Control Panel

[keith]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.video (More info?)

Hi

I have a second hand IBM Thinkpad running XP Pro. In
Control Panel>System>Device Manager I have no display
adapter listed, and I think as a result my video
performance is suffering.

I tried playing a DVD in it, and got an error message
saying i needed to reduce screen resolution. Didn't fix it.

Has an S3 Savage MX (8MB RAM) installed, and PC Doctor
detects it, as does WinS3ID, the 'what graphics card do
you have' app from S3.

Have tried installing the driver but get an error message
and installation stops. (Have an error log file if you
wish to see it.)

Add New Hardware wizard doesn't discover it either.
Wondering if I have a registry problem, and if whether I
remove any keys referring to the card it will either let
me install the drivers or perhaps add new hardware might
work at that point.

Thoughts?

Keith

BIOS up to date, 256M RAM

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.video (More info?)

Look for updated graphics drivers from the IBM website (if there are none
for XP, try those for Windows 2000)
--
Cari (MS-MVP Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com

"Keith" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0a5901c49676$f87dae30$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi
>
> I have a second hand IBM Thinkpad running XP Pro. In
> Control Panel>System>Device Manager I have no display
> adapter listed, and I think as a result my video
> performance is suffering.
>
> I tried playing a DVD in it, and got an error message
> saying i needed to reduce screen resolution. Didn't fix it.
>
> Has an S3 Savage MX (8MB RAM) installed, and PC Doctor
> detects it, as does WinS3ID, the 'what graphics card do
> you have' app from S3.
>
> Have tried installing the driver but get an error message
> and installation stops. (Have an error log file if you
> wish to see it.)
>
> Add New Hardware wizard doesn't discover it either.
> Wondering if I have a registry problem, and if whether I
> remove any keys referring to the card it will either let
> me install the drivers or perhaps add new hardware might
> work at that point.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Keith
>
> BIOS up to date, 256M RAM