Satellite Pro 4600 video corruption



I have an old Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 which was shipped with Windows
98SE. It was due for a reload anyway, so I updated the BIOS, did a clean
install of Windows 2000 (which was a supported OS as shipped), and installed
the latest Toshiba drivers and utils I could find at the support web site.

I am finding occasional video corruption, usually when web browsing,
consisting of broken graphics within web pages. Searching the newsgroups I
find back messages complaining about the same thing, with some folks
reporting that several identical 4600's exhibit the same problem. There
is even a support page for a game (something Tycoon) which reports video
corruption even with updated drivers. All signs pointed to a buggy driver
for the Trident CyberBlade XP video card in this model.

I have tried various video acceleration and resolution/color depth
settings with no change. I am now using the recommended default
(1024x786x16bit).

Toshiba stopped development of drivers for this model long ago. The
manufacturer's web site (www.tridentmicro.com) has a teaser for driver
downloads, but when you go past the compliance agreement you are led to a
dead link.

Anyone have a pointer to compatible, less buggy drivers for this video chipset?

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Relevant Pages

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