A7N8X-E Deluxe Vid Problem

[TaZMAn]

Hope someone can help me. Tearing my hair out.
I have a Rev. 2 board running Win98 SE
Installed a MSI FX-5200 video card.
No other periphials installed except for hard drive and Cd rom.
My problem is that the video card works but not with any accelerator
drivers like DirectX 9 (installed) and the Nvidia screen shows it as a
AGP card running in PCI mode.
I used the Nvidia Detonator drivers for the card and used the Nvidia
motherboard drivers from the Cd that came with my motherboard.
I also installed the Microsoft update that was on my Asus Cd.
Not sure what bios the motherboard is running but I do remember seeing a
date of Dec. 2003 on the screen.

I even reformatted my hard drive, reinstalled Win98 and still the same
problem.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Taz

 

[Paul]

Hope someone can help me. Tearing my hair out.
I have a Rev. 2 board running Win98 SE
Installed a MSI FX-5200 video card.
No other periphials installed except for hard drive and Cd rom.
My problem is that the video card works but not with any accelerator
drivers like DirectX 9 (installed) and the Nvidia screen shows it as a
AGP card running in PCI mode.
I used the Nvidia Detonator drivers for the card and used the Nvidia
motherboard drivers from the Cd that came with my motherboard.
I also installed the Microsoft update that was on my Asus Cd.
Not sure what bios the motherboard is running but I do remember seeing a
date of Dec. 2003 on the screen.

I even reformatted my hard drive, reinstalled Win98 and still the same
problem.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Taz

How do the entries in the Device Manager look ? Any "unknown" devices
or funny entries ? Is it possible you used a set of chipset drivers
meant for another OS and they didn't "take" ?

Paul

 

[DAN]

How do the entries in the Device Manager look ? Any "unknown" devices
or funny entries ? Is it possible you used a set of chipset drivers
meant for another OS and they didn't "take" ?

Paul

Have you configured the bios for AGP card.
TOM......

 

[Steven L Cox]

Hope someone can help me. Tearing my hair out.
I have a Rev. 2 board running Win98 SE
Installed a MSI FX-5200 video card.
No other periphials installed except for hard drive and Cd rom.
My problem is that the video card works but not with any accelerator
drivers like DirectX 9 (installed) and the Nvidia screen shows it as a
AGP card running in PCI mode.
I used the Nvidia Detonator drivers for the card and used the Nvidia
motherboard drivers from the Cd that came with my motherboard.
I also installed the Microsoft update that was on my Asus Cd.
Not sure what bios the motherboard is running but I do remember seeing a
date of Dec. 2003 on the screen.

I even reformatted my hard drive, reinstalled Win98 and still the same
problem.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Taz

Just curious but why Win98? You'd probably not be having this problem
with 2K/XP...

-s-

 

[dino]

how much memory??..I had an issue like that when I put in my Ti4200....I had
768 meg of ram and putting in the Ti made me edit the sys.ini file to
recognize all my mem. Then the accelerator problem went away.

 

[TaZMAn]

Bios is set for AGP 8X
The device manager is clear. No unknown items. The video display adapter
shows the driver as the Nvidia driver I downloaded.
All the drivers are Win98 flavor.
One thing I did notice was that I saw no agp bridges in the device
manager. All were listed a pci slots.

Why Win98? It's the OS I happen to own.I've tried XP and don't like it
at all.
But I will be dual booting into linux once I get this problem solved.

Thanks,
Taz

 

[Ed]

Bios is set for AGP 8X
The device manager is clear. No unknown items. The video display adapter
shows the driver as the Nvidia driver I downloaded.
All the drivers are Win98 flavor.
One thing I did notice was that I saw no agp bridges in the device
manager. All were listed a pci slots.

Why Win98? It's the OS I happen to own.I've tried XP and don't like it
at all.
But I will be dual booting into linux once I get this problem solved.

Thanks,
Taz

Did you install the Nforce mobo drivers?

 

[Paul]

Bios is set for AGP 8X
The device manager is clear. No unknown items. The video display adapter
shows the driver as the Nvidia driver I downloaded.
All the drivers are Win98 flavor.
One thing I did notice was that I saw no agp bridges in the device
manager. All were listed a pci slots.

Why Win98? It's the OS I happen to own.I've tried XP and don't like it
at all.
But I will be dual booting into linux once I get this problem solved.

Thanks,
Taz

On an Intel board I've got, it is possible to install either a PCI
chipset driver for AGP or an AGP chipset driver. (There is an option
in the Intel INFs to dump all the install files into a folder, and
you can pick the one you want to install out of there.) Now, maybe
if you delete the PCI AGP driver, you can upgrade to an AGP (gart)
driver. Problem is, I don't know anything about how easy it is to
get at components inside an Nvidia installer, so I don't know
if you can do that or not with the Nforce2.

I just downloaded this file from the Asus download page:

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/misc/utils/nf2/nf2_v264_9x.zip

There is a GART folder with a miniport driver in it. There is also
what looks like an uninstaller (nvugart.exe) and maybe that has
something to do with cleaning up the registry.

What is interesting, is I don't see a PCI bridge driver in that
download, so I wonder where your current bridge driver came from ?

As for Win98SE, I've got it on a couple of machines, and it doesn't
crash. What more can you ask for ? Win98SE would be a better choice
for machines that don't have a lot of RAM, and there are many old
motherboards that just cannot take a lot of RAM. I did a WinXP
install for a relative, before Christmas, and it doesn't crash
either. I didn't see anything in it that made me want to run out
and upgrade I didn't like the default UI and switched it back
to that "classic" look (Start menu looks like Win98 now).

HTH,
Paul

 

[TaZMAn]

Thanks for all your help and advice.
I am using 512megs of Ram and did load in the Nforce drivers.
I tried something earlier today.
I borrowed a copy of Win2000, loaded the mobo and vid drivers off the
Cd's and it worked fine.
Since I tried both the video drivers from MSI and Nvidia for Win98 and
got no where I believe the mobo drivers that came on the Cd are bad.
I will download the driver from the Asus website and see if it works.
Will post an update just in case someone else has this problem.

Thanks,
Taz

 

[John]

why would you use win98
some time people cause there own problems!