need best Win98SE driver for ATI Radeon 9800 Pro - please help

[Adam]

You wrote in thusly:


While I agree that the site is poorly layed out, there's no need to
search the entire site when the link for Catalyst v4.3 is accessible
from the ATI Customer Care left frame?

Just go here with your mouse:

ATI Customer Care > Drivers and Software > Windows ME > RADEON >
Previous Drivers and Software > CATALYST 4.3 Driver Build
4.14.01.91387-991-040224m-013831c

Oh good! However, after downloading and installing ATI Catalyst 4.3
(both display driver and control panel), I get the following error message:

"While initializing device IOS:
ERROR: Real mode system memory allocation failed."

This error message is displayed before Win98SE loads.
After getting the message, a reboot is required.

Does this mean that something is wrong with the video card?

 

[Adam]

Possible card failure and or system RAM IMHO.

Since restoring the backup boot partition,
my Win98SE system no longer halts with the error message:

"While initializing device IOS:
ERROR: Real mode system memory allocation failed."


The only changes made to the boot partition after backing up were:
- upgraded from DX8.1b to DX9.0c
- installed ATI Catalyst 4.3
[Display Driver: wme-7-991-040224m-013831c.exe
Control Panel: control-panel-7-991-040224m-013831c.exe]

I'm not sure if ...
- DX9.0c is the best version to use
- the best versions of ATI Catalyst were downloaded and installed

 

[LM]

ATI Catalyst Radeon Display Driver 4.3 (Windows 98/ME)
http://www.techspot.com/drivers/driver/file/information/2663/ati-catalyst-radeon
-display-43-98-me/

Is this the best Win98SE driver for ATI Radeon 9800 Pro?

Hi

There is a link on Ati website to Win98Se drivers, why dont you use
that. It seems to be Win ME driver, but WIN98SE and WinME seem to use
same drivers.


You can try using a program called driver cleaner to totally uninstall
Ati drivers, and then stop all processes except explorer before
installing new drivers. Otherwise I always some error messages.
Unfortunately I dont remember any details any more, since I havnt
updated my older pc's drivers for a long time (a win98SE PC). To me,
installing Win98se ATI drivers was always quite difficult.

LM

 

[Haggis]

try these ...list of four

http://www.3dchipset.com/drivers/ati/official/9x/index.php

 

[Adam]

try these ...list of four

http://www.3dchipset.com/drivers/ati/official/9x/index.php

Attempting to download from that link leads to
an unauthorized download ATI page. This is the problem
I have been facing with many non-ATI driver download sites.