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Video driver woes
This is weird? I have one destop computer with 2 seperate hd's. The
primary has XP home. The other I installed win98se. When I installed win98, i made it my primary with Win98. Changed the necessary jumpers. In fact, I just unplugged the XP drive with IDE cable. Naturally, after installing win98, I had to reinstall some drivers...mainly the video driver for win98, not xp. Initially it gave me the 16 bit, 640 x 460 screen..so as I had done in the past, reinstalled my monitor and adapter. After reinstalling, I could not get back into windows upon rebooting...it went into safe mode. I removed the driver, rebooted and this time I got into windows normally. After trying numerous times, I could never get that display resolution to change. I called my computer vendor and he was absolutely useless. ..his remedy was to buy another video driver or update it. It came with my system just 2 years ago, custom made. NVidea does not OEM update drivers.They told me to see the vendor.I didn't know that, but the vendor should of known. So my last resort was to reverse the procedure as i did before and made my XP driver the primary again, to see if I have the same problem with the video driver. My resolution was still 1024 x 768 and useing ( highest ) 32 bit. . So why won't this video card, under the chosen win98 driver, change that resolution in win98? |
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Video driver woes
We do not appear to be alone with this. I don't know if an update from MS
has done something but a number of users have posted the same problems with Win 98. In my case, it appeared to be a corruption of the Nvidia drivers. To overcome, I deleted the Nvidia drivers with Add/Remove programs and then reinstalled in safe mode and OK. What video card is it? Alan "Anthona" wrote in message ups.com... This is weird? I have one destop computer with 2 seperate hd's. The primary has XP home. The other I installed win98se. When I installed win98, i made it my primary with Win98. Changed the necessary jumpers. In fact, I just unplugged the XP drive with IDE cable. Naturally, after installing win98, I had to reinstall some drivers...mainly the video driver for win98, not xp. Initially it gave me the 16 bit, 640 x 460 screen..so as I had done in the past, reinstalled my monitor and adapter. After reinstalling, I could not get back into windows upon rebooting...it went into safe mode. I removed the driver, rebooted and this time I got into windows normally. After trying numerous times, I could never get that display resolution to change. I called my computer vendor and he was absolutely useless. ..his remedy was to buy another video driver or update it. It came with my system just 2 years ago, custom made. NVidea does not OEM update drivers.They told me to see the vendor.I didn't know that, but the vendor should of known. So my last resort was to reverse the procedure as i did before and made my XP driver the primary again, to see if I have the same problem with the video driver. My resolution was still 1024 x 768 and useing ( highest ) 32 bit. . So why won't this video card, under the chosen win98 driver, change that resolution in win98? |
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Video driver woes
We do not appear to be alone with this. I don't know if an update from MS
has done something but a number of users have posted the same problems with Win 98. In my case, it appeared to be a corruption of the Nvidia drivers. To overcome, I deleted the Nvidia drivers with Add/Remove programs and then reinstalled in safe mode and OK. What video card is it? Alan "Anthona" wrote in message ups.com... This is weird? I have one destop computer with 2 seperate hd's. The primary has XP home. The other I installed win98se. When I installed win98, i made it my primary with Win98. Changed the necessary jumpers. In fact, I just unplugged the XP drive with IDE cable. Naturally, after installing win98, I had to reinstall some drivers...mainly the video driver for win98, not xp. Initially it gave me the 16 bit, 640 x 460 screen..so as I had done in the past, reinstalled my monitor and adapter. After reinstalling, I could not get back into windows upon rebooting...it went into safe mode. I removed the driver, rebooted and this time I got into windows normally. After trying numerous times, I could never get that display resolution to change. I called my computer vendor and he was absolutely useless. ..his remedy was to buy another video driver or update it. It came with my system just 2 years ago, custom made. NVidea does not OEM update drivers.They told me to see the vendor.I didn't know that, but the vendor should of known. So my last resort was to reverse the procedure as i did before and made my XP driver the primary again, to see if I have the same problem with the video driver. My resolution was still 1024 x 768 and useing ( highest ) 32 bit. . So why won't this video card, under the chosen win98 driver, change that resolution in win98? |
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Video driver woes
nVidia issues an "all supported cards" (starting with TNT2 though will work
for TNT) driver for 98 at their website. If you have an on board chip and it is a nVidia chip, you "MAY" need the "board manufacturer driver", however, if you have ANY nVidia chip based "card" you can use the nVidia "reference" driver from their site. They also have the XP drivers, alone with other OS drivers (a few). Though not Microsoft certified, they are usually the best bet for drivers.. However, you may lose some "special options" which only the manufacture drivers supply, if you install them. As you apparently use or used a dual boot, you may be loading a XP card driver (via hook or handle) in the "boot sequence". If so, perhaps you might wish to do a bootlog to see if the 98 driver vxd is loading for the card in Win98. It may be conflicting with a prior loaded driver and will show an error in the log. Open the bootlog.txt and search for "error", check these out for problems with drivers and other.. "Anthona" wrote in message ups.com... This is weird? I have one destop computer with 2 seperate hd's. The primary has XP home. The other I installed win98se. When I installed win98, i made it my primary with Win98. Changed the necessary jumpers. In fact, I just unplugged the XP drive with IDE cable. Naturally, after installing win98, I had to reinstall some drivers...mainly the video driver for win98, not xp. Initially it gave me the 16 bit, 640 x 460 screen..so as I had done in the past, reinstalled my monitor and adapter. After reinstalling, I could not get back into windows upon rebooting...it went into safe mode. I removed the driver, rebooted and this time I got into windows normally. After trying numerous times, I could never get that display resolution to change. I called my computer vendor and he was absolutely useless. ..his remedy was to buy another video driver or update it. It came with my system just 2 years ago, custom made. NVidea does not OEM update drivers.They told me to see the vendor.I didn't know that, but the vendor should of known. So my last resort was to reverse the procedure as i did before and made my XP driver the primary again, to see if I have the same problem with the video driver. My resolution was still 1024 x 768 and useing ( highest ) 32 bit. . So why won't this video card, under the chosen win98 driver, change that resolution in win98? |
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Video driver woes
nVidia issues an "all supported cards" (starting with TNT2 though will work
for TNT) driver for 98 at their website. If you have an on board chip and it is a nVidia chip, you "MAY" need the "board manufacturer driver", however, if you have ANY nVidia chip based "card" you can use the nVidia "reference" driver from their site. They also have the XP drivers, alone with other OS drivers (a few). Though not Microsoft certified, they are usually the best bet for drivers.. However, you may lose some "special options" which only the manufacture drivers supply, if you install them. As you apparently use or used a dual boot, you may be loading a XP card driver (via hook or handle) in the "boot sequence". If so, perhaps you might wish to do a bootlog to see if the 98 driver vxd is loading for the card in Win98. It may be conflicting with a prior loaded driver and will show an error in the log. Open the bootlog.txt and search for "error", check these out for problems with drivers and other.. "Anthona" wrote in message ups.com... This is weird? I have one destop computer with 2 seperate hd's. The primary has XP home. The other I installed win98se. When I installed win98, i made it my primary with Win98. Changed the necessary jumpers. In fact, I just unplugged the XP drive with IDE cable. Naturally, after installing win98, I had to reinstall some drivers...mainly the video driver for win98, not xp. Initially it gave me the 16 bit, 640 x 460 screen..so as I had done in the past, reinstalled my monitor and adapter. After reinstalling, I could not get back into windows upon rebooting...it went into safe mode. I removed the driver, rebooted and this time I got into windows normally. After trying numerous times, I could never get that display resolution to change. I called my computer vendor and he was absolutely useless. ..his remedy was to buy another video driver or update it. It came with my system just 2 years ago, custom made. NVidea does not OEM update drivers.They told me to see the vendor.I didn't know that, but the vendor should of known. So my last resort was to reverse the procedure as i did before and made my XP driver the primary again, to see if I have the same problem with the video driver. My resolution was still 1024 x 768 and useing ( highest ) 32 bit. . So why won't this video card, under the chosen win98 driver, change that resolution in win98? |
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