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Title: Ancient Laptop Help
Post by: JamesV6CDX on 23 March 2014, 11:32:34

I have an old Toshiba 2140cds laptop. It has an AMD K6/2 Processor, 160mb RAM, and a 4GB HDD. Bit of a blast from the past really.

You may laugh, but I use it for a couple of functions (it's not my main laptop) - not least for taking out to the car for diagnostics, as I wouldn't be too upset if I dropped it / got it dirty, as opposed to my newish one, for which I would lose body parts at the hands of SWMBO...

Anyhow. It threw a wobbly, resulting in me having to re-install the O/S - which - again don't laugh - is Windows NT 4 Workstation :D

Freshly formatted / new partition and Windows and Service Pack 6 have gone on fine and it's happy.

The only thing I can't find, ANYWHERE, is a display driver! Research shows that this model has a PCI S3 Virge MX graphics chipset, but I just cannot actually find a driver for it online - anywhere!!

Most of the sites claiming to have it, actually don't, they're just a con / load of popups to try and get me to download other rubbish.

Does anyone with greater knowledge than me, know how I could get a graphics driver working? It's driving me mad on 16 colours - even if I could get it to 256 I'd be happy! I've tried all of the standard S3 drivers NT comes with, none of those work... at a bit of a loss really

Any advice / assistance much appreciated :y

Title: Re: Ancient Laptop Help
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 23 March 2014, 11:57:07

Have you looked here..... :-\

http://www.s3graphics.com/en/drivers/legacy_software_archive.aspx

Title: Re: Ancient Laptop Help
Post by: JamesV6CDX on 23 March 2014, 15:00:05

Yep but the downloads don't work :(

Title: Re: Ancient Laptop Help
Post by: Andy H on 23 March 2014, 15:28:18

Have you tried the Toshiba site ?

I don't know if this driver covers your laptop http://support.toshiba.com/support/viewContentDetail?contentId=106778 (http://support.toshiba.com/support/viewContentDetail?contentId=106778)

Title: Re: Ancient Laptop Help
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 23 March 2014, 17:40:07

Try here then...

http://www.filewatcher.com/m/wnt32309.zip.175837-0.html

I downloaded the first/top link and checked the file with Avast.....it found nothing wrong with the zip file.....but be cautious  :)

Title: Re: Ancient Laptop Help
Post by: TheBoy on 23 March 2014, 21:07:26

I get a feeling, though its a long time ago, that the mobile S3 variant had to have driver from laptop manufacturer (who had access to a reference driver). So try the US or Jap Tosh sites.

Title: Re: Ancient Laptop Help
Post by: dbug on 24 March 2014, 00:36:54

James, I've got loads of discs with drivers going back to Win95/98/ME/NT - I'll have a look when I get a moment ;)

Title: Re: Ancient Laptop Help
Post by: JamesV6CDX on 24 March 2014, 11:27:50

Many thanks to you all :y