win95 new install (floppy version) - display in VGA when reboot

[YenRieur]

I have to warn you that this is a pre-historic problem !! lol

to help a friend who bought a "good bargain computer"
(nineties museum computer : 486 at 50MHz, 8Mo Ram, HDD211Mo...)

I found the 3+27 floppy disks to install DOS6.22 and win95
and every thing seemed to work...

win95 is doing (almost) every thing I could dream

except...

except that each time I'm rebooting,
display is coming back to VGA (640x480)...

I tried to set "display parameters" on :
"plug and play monitor"
or "SVGA"
or "XGA"

it works fine when I choose that (even at 1024x768)
but each time I switch off...

pouf...
vanished...

and 640x480 is back when I'll switch on!!
;op

anyone remembering same sort of pb ?
(I googled every words that came in my mind...,
search on the forum,
I didn't find anything looking like my pb...)



Sorry for Coding Typings wich can be a little wrong
cause I use a French Version of Microsoft
and I have to translate it back in english in this post..
---
very special congratulations to all programmers
with keyboards in chinese, japanese, arabian, ... !!!

 

[rockerfellerz]

Well, what sort of video card does the beast have? If you can find the proper driver for it that should do it.
I saw the same thing on an old 95 machine with s3 (I think) card with only 1 meg of ram. the video could be set higher but would revert when it was rebooted. Found a driver for it and that did it.

If you're going through Hell...keep going... (Winston Churchill)
RocKeRFelLerZ

 

[edfair]

You've go a hardware detection problem. It doesn't find the right thing so it blows the previously installed drivers away and goes back to default.
Rockfellerz has give you the proper steps. You may need something like belarc or aida (has been renamed) to help you identify the video, or use debug to examine the video bios for clues.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[micker377]

Aida32 has been renamed "Everest Home".

 

[YenRieur]

i'm going to look for that HP VL2 display driver
and will say you if I success...

thank's to all of you !!!

[edit:
while I was writing this post,
I was installing Word6
and at the end, Word reboot itself
and at the reboot, it has keeped SVGA parameters !!!

I thought it was "auto-repair"...

but when I reboot myself,
it came VGA again...
;op

<going back to driver search>

Sorry for Coding Typings wich can be a little wrong
cause I use a French Version of Microsoft
and I have to translate it back in english in this post..
---
very special congratulations to all programmers
with keyboards in chinese, japanese, arabian, ... !!!