Completely agree on abuses of the English language. Say what you mean, dammit.
Monitor refresh rate: I thought that Win98 would not allow you to set a resoluteion/refresh combination that the attached monitor doesn't support? I'm assuming you're setting it through the "display" option under "control panel", rather than by hacking the registry or whatever it is you do if you want to skip the control panel. Though now that I think about it, I suppose there are two variables here, the monitor itself and the graphics card. Maybe the control panel only queries the card? This is way beyond what I actually know about, unfortunately, so I'll just throw out the question.
It's a hand-me-down that came without a monitor; the friend who upgraded didn't need to upgrade her monitor. Apparently the monitor it was installed/configured for supports higher refresh rates than the one I plugged into it once it got here.
Device Manager (or whatever its name is) lists both a card and a monitor. It can sanity-check what kind of card I claim it has by querying the card's ROM, but AFAIK there's no way for the box to know what kind of monitor is attached other than having a human tell it. So I'm guessing I'd have to go into the Device Manager, manually delete the existing monitor and add a new one, and hope it doesn't ask me for a CD I don't have. (If I do that, I'll check for the presence of C:\Windows\Options\Cabs first or wait for a copy of a Win98 installation CD.)
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Monitor refresh rate: I thought that Win98 would not allow you to set a resoluteion/refresh combination that the attached monitor doesn't support? I'm assuming you're setting it through the "display" option under "control panel", rather than by hacking the registry or whatever it is you do if you want to skip the control panel. Though now that I think about it, I suppose there are two variables here, the monitor itself and the graphics card. Maybe the control panel only queries the card? This is way beyond what I actually know about, unfortunately, so I'll just throw out the question.
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Device Manager (or whatever its name is) lists both a card and a monitor. It can sanity-check what kind of card I claim it has by querying the card's ROM, but AFAIK there's no way for the box to know what kind of monitor is attached other than having a human tell it. So I'm guessing I'd have to go into the Device Manager, manually delete the existing monitor and add a new one, and hope it doesn't ask me for a CD I don't have. (If I do that, I'll check for the presence of C:\Windows\Options\Cabs first or wait for a copy of a Win98 installation CD.)