IT LIVES!!

[aaroncgi]

Yee haw!!

And I didn't even have to reinstall Win98!! (yet)

I flashed the BIOS in my motherboard from 1.02A to 1.02, and no more conflict with my G400! However, still do have a weird problem, but I'm pretty sure I have heard of this happening in many other KX133 boards:

When I go to shut down or restart, the system hangs, does not even getting to the Win98 shutdown screen, just blanks the icons and leaves the cursor sitting there.

Ideas on this? I tried disabling ACPI in BIOS, but this brought back the dreaded conflict with my G400, argh! Maybe I should reinstall Win98 without ACPI after all.. but at least my G400 is now working, have more than 640 x 480 and 16 colors!

Thanks to all who've helped!

Aaron

[Jorden]

There's always answers in the FAQs Archives

Jord.

[aaroncgi]

Thanks for the FAQ, but I do have a question about it. It's for people running Win98SE, right? I haven't yet installed that...


Still lots of good stuff though!

Aaron

[dutchmoose]

Just install the VIA 4 in 1 drivers and then reinstall the display drivers, should solve that problem bud

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[aaroncgi]

Dutchmoose-

Which versions of the VIA 4-in-1 drivers and Matrox drivers? Am currently using 4.20 and 5.40, respectively. Thanks!

Aaron

[mainframe]

hi aaroncgi,

you will need to get and install the via 4.24 (from www.viatech.com) an then install the 6.01 beta drivers...

[aaroncgi]

Hey Mainframe! Your advice is right on, I did exactly that with the 4.24 VIA and 6.01 Matrox, works beautifully now! However, I did need to uninstall the AGP portion of the VIA 4-in-1, as that gave me an error when installed. See my other post in the Matrox Hardware forume 'It Lives Part Deux:The Wrath of ACPI'

Cheers!

Aaron