Video Card for an older Dell - Should I install a new one?

[GeorgeW6]

Hi,

My video card was working great until a crash required my reloading Windows
98. From then on I never was able to make it work correctly, despite lots of
help here and originally from Dell before the Windows 98 support went off.
(The sound is not working, either, but it is the picture quality I need
fixed) Since this is an old obsession, I have to revisit the situation.

I would like to know if starting over by replacing the video card for a new
one with its new software would likely solve my problem. I feel there is no
sense in going through all the steps to repair again and again, as I did
before. Also, are video cards specific to the computer and operating system,
as I think they are?

My reason to do this is that I have many 3 1/2 discs with family photos and
they are all compacted using a Windows 98 DOS program that does not work on
Windows XP, my current laptop OS. The photographs come up so bad on the
screen that I cannot even see if they are worthwhile to save. I know how to
do the save and use them on the laptop, although it is not easy and I do not
want to bother with a bunch of pictures of no use.

I'll give the computer away as soon as I know there is are no further use
for it.

Thanks, George

 

[philo]

"GeorgeW6" <GeorgeW6@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CAC0F157-70B1-4FF5-B4F2-44EB37EB793E@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> My video card was working great until a crash required my reloading
Windows
> 98. From then on I never was able to make it work correctly, despite lots
of
> help here and originally from Dell before the Windows 98 support went off.
> (The sound is not working, either, but it is the picture quality I need
> fixed) Since this is an old obsession, I have to revisit the situation.
>
> I would like to know if starting over by replacing the video card for a
new
> one with its new software would likely solve my problem. I feel there is
no
> sense in going through all the steps to repair again and again, as I did
> before. Also, are video cards specific to the computer and operating
system,
> as I think they are?
>
> My reason to do this is that I have many 3 1/2 discs with family photos
and
> they are all compacted using a Windows 98 DOS program that does not work
on
> Windows XP, my current laptop OS. The photographs come up so bad on the
> screen that I cannot even see if they are worthwhile to save. I know how
to
> do the save and use them on the laptop, although it is not easy and I do
not
> want to bother with a bunch of pictures of no use.
>
> I'll give the computer away as soon as I know there is are no further use
> for it.
>
> Thanks, George



No need to get a new video card...
all you have to do is install the drivers for it.
You can get them from the website of the Mfg