Not possible to adjust refresh rate in Win 98?

[aakerman]

My grandparents have had this really old crappy 17" inch monitor for quite a while, that only ran 60hz at 800x600. So when I upgraded my once top-of-the-line philips 19" crt to a Dell LCD, I brought my grandparents the old crt so they could experience the joy of 100hz...

but - to my frustration, I could not find the usual "monitor -> refresh rate" tab in windows 98, which they are forced to run because the pc is pretty slow.

According to this site,
http://www.whizatpc.com/Kbase%5CKA10118.html
there is supposed to be a refresh rate drop-down list even in win98, but I'm almost positive they didn't have one, I looked everywhere. If this really is the case, that the feature is just absent with their set-up (very old video card too, Miro SV20, maybe that's the reason) - can anyone tell me what to do, in order to run the proper 100HZ on their computer?

 

[Mullzy]

That tab being disabled or having nothing but 60 in the dropdown is most likely the fault of your video drivers. What's a Miro SV20?

 

[Fern]

I use 98se quite extensively, not sure about 98 (original). But if they're the same, Mullzy w/b right, it's the gfx card/drivers.

Fern

 

[aakerman]

Miro SV20 is a very old video card. It has 2 megabytes of video ram and won't run more than 800x600
I guess it was pretty decent back when the Pentium 150 was the quickest thing there was.

I'll see if i can google me the original miro drivers... if not - is there any other solution? Someone recommended powerstrip?

 

[Jeff7181]

Yeah, Powerstrip will let you set refresh rates.

 

[DaveSimmons]

You might need to set the monitor type, with an inf for this monitor or to a generic or wild guess type.

Refresh rates depend on Win98's lists for both the graphics card and monitor IIRC. I do know that I've set refesrh rates even back in Win95 with old ATI and diamond/S3 2MB-4MB cards, so it is possible.