Millie, Try doing a search for S3 Trio video drivers and see if these solve your 
problem.






On Wednesday, November 27, 2002 at 1:38 pm, Millie Stanton wrote:
>Hello! Well, I had four vertical lines (1.3 inches long n .3 inches apart)
>following the mouse cursor around, and the DOS screen was blinking.
>Somebody told me to uninstall the video driver, reboot, install the
>generic VGA driver, reboot and install the original driver. The thing is,
>I'm not sure what the original driver WAS! The monitor is AT&T SVGA.
>The adapter--which I uninstalled today--is S3 something, but I don't
>remember the rest of the letters/numbers. Before I uninstalled the
>adapter (or driver or whatever it is), I tried to print it out, copied the
>screen into the clipboard (w the ALT click business), and saved it as
>a *.clp file. Unfortunately, (and stupidly) you can't print the contents
>of the clipboard.When I tried to retrieve the *.clp file I'd saved it was
>blank!
>ANYWAY, for all my trouble, DOS is still blinking, and the lines which
>used to follow the mouse are now full length lines covering the screen
>at 5/8 inch intervals!!!
>All this started on the weekend when I decided to reduce the display
>resolution to see  if it would speed up the system any. But TODAY,
>when I installed the various drivers and try to increase the resolution,
>I can't do it!!!
>I'm thinking if I could increase the resolution, these problems would go
>away!
>If anybody out there has any suggestions, I'd LOVE to hear them, as
>this is driving me COMPLETELY bonkers!!!
>Thanx in advance, Millie S

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