First post, by Lintu
My Windows 98 PC build is almost done but one problem still came up recently. I bought an ATI Radeon 9600 XT Bravo graphics card and it works well. First when I tried to get it working I didn't plug it in properly. I wondered why nothing showed up. It was connected with a VGA cable to my Samtron 76E monitor. I tried to connect it to the DVI port of the graphics card with an adapter but it still didn't work. Not until then I realized to check that it was plugged in properly. After that it started working but the screen blinked every now and then. Then I tried to put the cable back to the VGA port and the blinking was gone.
But now for some reason, at the startup, the screen vertical size is very small and the refresh rate is poor. The problem is gone after the startup. I know this is not a big problem but it bugs me because everything else works fine now and I would really want to be greeted by a decent Windows 98 splash screen at the startup.
I have tried to adjust the monitor settings from the monitor at the startup and it helped a bit but not very much. I tried to reinstall the drivers (ATI Catalyst 6.2). I'm wondering if there would be something helpful in the registry. I also found this:
https://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=107715
I'm not sure if that is the same problem but it says: "It seems that this is one of those triumphs of technology, the monitor has a number of presets and space for some user settings. Seems when the computer crashed once it was trying to emulate standard vga, and the monitor duly obliged by saving the new settings, and making them the default."
Is there a way to get my hands on those presets somehow? Registry?
