For the heat issue, you have to clean all the fins, copper base and the chips so you can add a fresh thermal paste onto them. The fan itself might need a service too.

According to the specs, the Satellite Pro 4300 uses the S3 Savage IX... it doesn't have any DOS scaling tools that I am aware of.

If you want nice scaling in DOS, your options are either the C&T VGA series like you used before with the VEXP utility, or later chip like the ATI Rage LT (or later) or Nvidia; the latter both do interpolation of non native screen modes.

Anything else does not offer anything better than linear scaling (often only in one axis, and sometimes not even that!), hence the poor screen quality of any mode that isn't native to the panel resolution.

megatron-uk wrote on 2025-04-12, 12:30:

According to the specs, the Satellite Pro 4300 uses the S3 Savage IX... it doesn't have any DOS scaling tools that I am aware of.

If you want nice scaling in DOS, your options are either the C&T VGA series like you used before with the VEXP utility, or later chip like the ATI Rage LT (or later) or Nvidia; the latter both do interpolation of non native screen modes.

Anything else does not offer anything better than linear scaling (often only in one axis, and sometimes not even that!), hence the poor screen quality of any mode that isn't native to the panel resolution.

For the scaling, I don’t know at all if it’s a usefull information but just in case, NSSI give me this : « toshiba svga 8 mb vesa vbe 2.0 secondary: none »

Maz Hoot wrote on 2025-04-13, 06:22:

megatron-uk wrote on 2025-04-12, 12:30:

According to the specs, the Satellite Pro 4300 uses the S3 Savage IX... it doesn't have any DOS scaling tools that I am aware of.

If you want nice scaling in DOS, your options are either the C&T VGA series like you used before with the VEXP utility, or later chip like the ATI Rage LT (or later) or Nvidia; the latter both do interpolation of non native screen modes.

Anything else does not offer anything better than linear scaling (often only in one axis, and sometimes not even that!), hence the poor screen quality of any mode that isn't native to the panel resolution.

For the scaling, I don’t know at all if it’s a usefull information but just in case, NSSI give me this : « toshiba svga 8 mb vesa vbe 2.0 secondary: none »

Yeah, that's the Savage IX chip. You probably only have a BIOS option or Function hotkey 'windowed/fullscreen' mode... and that is all.

There's nothing more you can do.

megatron-uk wrote on 2025-04-13, 06:26:

Maz Hoot wrote on 2025-04-13, 06:22:

megatron-uk wrote on 2025-04-12, 12:30:

According to the specs, the Satellite Pro 4300 uses the S3 Savage IX... it doesn't have any DOS scaling tools that I am aware of.

If you want nice scaling in DOS, your options are either the C&T VGA series like you used before with the VEXP utility, or later chip like the ATI Rage LT (or later) or Nvidia; the latter both do interpolation of non native screen modes.

Anything else does not offer anything better than linear scaling (often only in one axis, and sometimes not even that!), hence the poor screen quality of any mode that isn't native to the panel resolution.

For the scaling, I don’t know at all if it’s a usefull information but just in case, NSSI give me this : « toshiba svga 8 mb vesa vbe 2.0 secondary: none »

Yeah, that's the Savage IX chip. You probably only have a BIOS option or Function hotkey 'windowed/fullscreen' mode... and that is all.

There's nothing more you can do.

Ok again, I’m stupid… I tested in adlibtracker2.ini different resolutions and it works like a charm ! I thought it would be stuck in the small windows under dos (when stretching is not activated in dos) because of the character mode, but not, the extended full screen (it’s the 5th mode in adlibtracker2.ini ) mode works the best for me, it’s so much better than the bios stretching and it is full screen ! 🤩

About the too hot and fan problem, I’m a little afraid of opening and clean components and add thermal paste on this beast, sometimes I make stupid mistakes in the process, but I will probably do it or ask a pro in a shop in my town

Just be aware that some laptop cooling solutions don't use thermal paste, but a thermal interface pad. I've got a few p2/P3 era laptops and they vary from paste, to thermal pad to fancy phase-change material.

You can't really swap the pad types with thermal paste as the gap is too large to be taken up by paste.