prblem with ati rage 128

[geo_pro]

I bought oem board (just card and drivers)
ATI RAGE FURY 32 with TV-out AGP

I installed fresh win98se. When I installed drivers that came with my ATI in the device manager was written XPERT 128 not FURY, but that is not the big problem. Of course drivers on cd were very old (may be 4 months).
I downloaded the newest drivers for boards with chipset Rage128 and installed them. And then system died total. I mean when I boot windows the system starts to boot and after little time the screen goes blank and monitor goes stand-by (this is the moment just before windows GUI start I think).
I can start in safe mode only.

I installed windows again and this time I installed downloaded drivers (without first installing drivers from cd).
The result were similar. This time windows stops at black screen with mouse pointer in the center.

Please any suggestions what to do.


(my system is:
Intel ZX chipset motherboard
Celeron 400
64MB SDRAM
ATI Rage128 32MB)

[Susan]

Sounds like Windows is getting a bit confused.

Go back into windows in safe mode, set the video adapter to Standard VGA, delete the Video software from Add/Remove Software and reboot once again into safe mode.

Then reboot again, but go into WIN in Normal Mode this time and then reinstall your downloaded drivers.

SE can be a real pain when it comes to video drivers. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[Dave_H]

geo_pro
Please let me know what happens, I got the
same card at my house and it shows
"XPERT 128" also. I never tried changing it
because it has no problems, and I thought that maybe it was supposed to do that.
Thanks
Dave

[Nixona]

I had the same problem installing a retail Fury 32. To change it to Rage Fury, dance on over to display properties, Settings Tab, Advanced Button in the lower right hand corner. Click the Adapter tab, then change. Click next on the window that pops up, choose Display a list of Drivers in a specific Location (the 2nd choice) And Click next. If the drivers were installed correctly the first time, you should see a huge list of ATI products. Select ATI Rage 128 GL SG TV AGP 2X. Click through everything and restart, I think you may need the driver disk. When you reboot, it will be the right one. As for the poor guy with the DOA computer...When you start in safe mode, go to System under the control panel, then Device Manager, and delete the Display Adapter. When you reboot, you will have to reinstall the driver, do it like you did before, then follow the above directions. at THAT point, you can update drivers. Let me know if that works or not, sorry for any typos.

[geo_pro]

I fixed my problem

The solution was:
I increased AGP aperature size in BIOS from 32 to 64MB, and after this everything was OK.
Later I changed xpert128 drivers manualy to Fury and there were no problems at all.

Now I am runnig with latest drivers and in device manager is written ATI Rage 128 Fury.

thanks to everybody who replyed to me