Ramtro 740 Intel AGP causing lockup. Help

[devjoy]

I have just built a new computer with the following specs: MB GigaByte G5AX, CPU Cyrix MII 233 MX, 64 mg PC100 Ram, Conner 1.27 gig HD formated to FAT32, Running Win95 OSR25. I have followed the directions that came with the video card to the letter, installing USB support, DirectX5 and the drivers that came with it, but when I boot up it goes to the last stage of booting and then I get a black screen and nothing happens. I have my CMOS set to boot to AGP and if I remove the card from device manager(while in safe mode) and reboot, Windows detects it and reinstalls it. When I restart the same thing happens. I have a Sampo AlphaScan SV monitor. Can anyone help me. Thanks.

[stodge]

Get rid of the i740. I bought one, and now it is sat in a closet somewhere wasting away. Buy something decent like Matrox, TNT... anything but i740!!!

[devjoy]

Stodge, Thanks for the response. I might end up taking it back where I bought it. I think I know what is wrong. It was assigned by windows to a shared IRQ. I'm not sure how to fix it but I am still researching it.

[bharn]

I don't know what chipset your MoBo is but if it's a VIA MVP3 you need to install the drivers from the website.

www.viatech.com

[devjoy]

Thanks for the info. It turns out they sold me the Raptor II 740 Intel AGP card that will only works with a Penium II cpu. I took it back and got an ATI Expert98 PCI 8mb card and it is working fine and very fast. For three weeks I tried to make the wrong card work. Boy what a pain. I guess I should have double checked what they sold me but I was too busy thinking that I was doing something wrong. Live and learn. Thanks again.

[NiViK]

You know..
one of my systems has the inter i740 card in it..
the Diamond Stealth II G460..(figure out that mismatch of numbers) and i had a similar thing happen to me after i installed directx6.1
now the only drivers that work in it are the intel drivers, diamonds lock up my system.
wierd huh.
I tried pulling everything else out but the video card and had the same result...

btw...the system is as follows

AMD K62-400 o/c to 450
DFI P5BV3+ ver B Motherboard
Diamond Stealth II G460 Video card( Intel I740)
Maxtor 8.4 Gig
128 MB PC100
Monster II
Lucent pci modem
Diamond Sonic Impact S90

[devjoy]

NiVik, Working on this computer has been very frustrating. I downloaded the IE 4.01 lastest upgrade and it installed automatically. When I rebooted, my whole system was messed up. I got every error message in the book from Invalid Dynamic Link to fatal Exceptions. I had to disable my internal cache to rerun setup and them I starting getting this error message about a device file in System.ini being damaged and to run setup again. I have copied most of the files from Microsoft on trouble shooting. I guess the next thing I will try is to creat a new system.ini to get rid of the third party drivers in hope that the computer will boot into the normal mode so that I can reinstall my specific hardware drivers. Have you downloaded the lastest Diamond drivers for your video card? I think I read something about directx6.1 not working with certain video cards. Good luck! I know that I need it with my problems.