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First post, by ancanar

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Hi.

I wanted to set up my old laptop - Compaq Presario 700, with Windows 98 SE to make it work with some older games (The PC originaly had Win XP). I have a problem with finding proper video card drivers, cause TBH I cannot find the way to identify what video card does this laptop have. I am only fining info about c700 - completly different model. I found the manual: https://data2.manualslib.com/pdf/4/302/30123- … 2230bd037ec6d02 but either i am blind or it has no info about components at all. Any idea what card might there be and if there are drivers for win98?

Reply 1 of 4, by Disruptor

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Perhaps SpeedSys 4.78 from the DOSBENCH suite may tell you which video card you have.

You also can find out something about your VGA BIOS with debug:

debug
d c000:0
d
d
...
q

Reply 2 of 4, by ancanar

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Disruptor wrote on 2023-04-04, 17:17:
Perhaps SpeedSys 4.78 from the DOSBENCH suite may tell you which video card you have. […]
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Perhaps SpeedSys 4.78 from the DOSBENCH suite may tell you which video card you have.

You also can find out something about your VGA BIOS with debug:

debug
d c000:0
d
d
...
q

Will speedy sys work under win 98 or would i be forced to install pure dos?

Reply 4 of 4, by Disruptor

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ancanar wrote on 2023-04-04, 17:49:

Will speedy sys work under win 98 or would i be forced to install pure dos?

For this purpose it works on the Win 98 DOS prompt.

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