Windows98 and Samsung monitor drivers

[Xewie]

Hi all!

Im new to this forum and am seeking some serious help for my problem with Windows98.

It concerns a Samsung SyncMaster 959NF monitor. It seems great. It supports damn good refreshrates as well. My problem is windows98 im running it on. Sometimes when i start up pc it decides to detect a new hardware... an unknown monitor. After that refreshrates are in 60Hz... aaaaargh.

I see in the devicelist 2 drivers for the monitor... the samsung driver and the unknown monitor driver. I can remove the unknown monitordriver but if i refresh or restart it detects the unknown monitor again :S.

I get this fixed by letting the pc be off a few hours and trying again... for some reason it fixes it by itself?!?!?!?

I can sometimes run the monitor drivercd and that fixes the problem. But like now i just cant get it fixed.

My questions are.... have anyone else had any similar problems with monitor drivers?!?!? Is there a way to adjust windows98 refreshrates to above 60Hz... this hurts eyes...

What on earth should i do?

Thanks for reading this,

Xewie.

 

[TyrantSSV]

Try to delete both monitors from device list and let the system to find one again.

 

[Xewie]

I tried... it autodetects an unknown monitor...?!?!?

Xewie

 

[ANFPS26]

Try going into safe mode (F8) and remove the drivers there. You probably have several drivers listed there that need to be removed. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing....."

 

[Xewie]

If the list in System Properties, Device Manager, Monitors is empty... can there still be some drivers installed?!?!

How on earth should i remove those... and if there are some drivers... why does win98 detect the monitor into unknown?

Xewie

 

[sydspirit]

Hello Xewie:
I had the same problem with win98se and a samsung monitor. Sometimes windows would install 3 or 4 monitors. I would uninstall all and try again only to repeat the multiple monitor installations. Finally I just disabled the unknown monitor in Device Manager and that ended all problems. This isn't a permanent solution ( a future fresh win98 install worked) but it did work for the time I used it. Try this if no luck with nobrain's suggestion.Hope this works for you. "Inter faeces et urinam, nascimur."
St. Augustine

 

[Xewie]

Thx for the tip sydspirit... i will.

Oddly enough my monitor was detected perfectly today. The powerstrip utility now shows all the details right. And i didnt do anything after the 15 reboots yesterday i just let it be. Does this seem to be a hardwareproblem to any of u. I have almost full warranty left in both videocard and the monitor.

To prevnt future troubles i copied my device managers hardware profile and also the win98 registry so i could possibly restore the current working setup. Any thoughts of these precautions?

Thx for the great interest in this problem, this forum is just AWESOME, lol...

Xewie