trouble with video card install

[Muley]

Hello,

I recently purchased a new card (VideoExcel TNT2 32Mb PCI) and can't seem to get it working. My board is a PC Chips M560, M1531/43 TxPro chipset, Pentium 200MMx over-clocked to 250 Mhz. The driver files appear to load correctly (So it says anyway) but on reboot I'm told that card is not configured correctly. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[rextex]

Do you have the driver disk?What is your OS, Windows?When do you get the message, do you have any video or able to get into Windows at all?

[Muley]

Hi
OS is windows 98se, The message about the card not being configured properly comes before the desktop appears. I can get into windows but can't change any settings for the display. When I go into control panels system usually hangs.

[Muley]

Oh, I do have driver disk. Once got message that file on disk was corrupt, so went to Chaintech and finally managed to get a replacement driver file. Didn't seem to fix problem.

[rextex]

Well, when I need to get new drivers or research a question here at Sysopt forum I just go to http://www.google.com and search for the product, driver, links,support etc.Chances are you can find another driver made for the specific chipset, OS and Bus (PCI), even if it is not written by the manufacturer.
I just spent some time searching for you but I have to cut out here.It seems the VideoExcel Mfg. / Product Line was bought out by Chaintech and they are promoting the newer AGP cards not the one you mention.
Try to find a Video Card / TNT oriented site that has a driver for it.
I did that for afriends older Voodoo card and the driver was far better and produced better color and graphics than the Voodoo Mfg.'s!It's all in the expetise of the Programmers, Videophiles that write these drivers.Some are truly amazing.
Goodnight and Good luck!!!

[Rugor]

Ok since you overclocked your CPU to 250MHz you must have played a little with the FSB.

A P200 normally runs at 3x66MHz bus, you can get 249MHz with 3x83MHz bus. That means your PCI bus which on that chipset runs at half the FSB is up to 41.5MHz from 33MHz. So your PCI bus is running 25% over the PCI spec and not all devices can take that. IDE hard drives run on the PCI bus and that high a speed can lead to data corruption. Also the video card itself may not be stable on that fast a bus.

There's my two cents------ or is that tuppence-ha'penny

Hope it helps