Powerdesk 5.13.020 install notes !! Important !!

[SteveC]

Paul - you sure your BIOS is OK? Flash it with the latest one available (whatever that maybe now...) and try again.

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Cheers,
Steve
It's Only A Graphics Card!
(But a damn good 'un!)

[Genom]

ARGH. Last night I all excitedly reboot the server into NT, dl the new drivers and attempt to install them. Got that now well known error and gave up figuring someone smarted than me would post a fix for it

Someone did. Now I gotta sit here at work ALL DAY before I can try this out and hopefully be able to give ya'll some NT benchmarks runnign OpenGL (Mainly Lightwave, SOftimage and Half-Life


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Way more computing power than is needed to browse the web

[Hunsow]

Paul that does sound like a bad bios.

[ALBPM]

I'm using Bios 2.3, however I have edited my pins for overclocking(changed #31 to 100). Would that have any effect on loading PD5???

I'm at work now so will re-flash when I get home.

Paul

[Hunsow]

Yep a screwed pins file, I had that too once. My pins contained two extra zeros. After I deleted those everything was fine again.

[ALBPM]

So, if my Bios is bad how come I can re-install both 4.33 and 4.51 without any problems.

The network guys at work have four NT systems stuck in VGA mode right now. All have updated Bios and are asking for disk 2 when trying to update from the VGA adaptor. Even with the fix for the Setup.ini file which I tried while trying to help them. I guess they'll go back to PD4.07 again.

What's going on with these drivers?????????

Paul

[Helevitia]

Paul,

I know this is a stupid question, but did you click on the 'Advanced" button under Display Properties, settings? Now that I'm re-reading your posts, I noticed that you said "General" tab in Display Properties. I assume this is under "advanced". When I click on Advanced now, I see Powerdesk integrated into Display Properties. I know, I know, dumb questions, but I didn't see you mention it.

Dave

[ALBPM]

SHIT!! I'm going to get a Banshee...LOL

Paul

[ALBPM]

Ya Hele, I did that. That's the only way to check or change the Display Adaptor.

Paul

[Jorden]

Guess what guys,

I ran into alot of problems since yesterday...

Upon install all worked A-OK... but at this moment the only 2 games I get working are TR3 & Rollercoaster Tycoon.

HL, Q2, HL, Unreal, NFS:HS, Incoming, Carmageddon 2, Simcity 3000 and a whole lot of others either refuse to work (with the error "3DSetup Error (#4) Could not get 'Name' registry value" ... I play most in D3D, haven't even touched the OGL version yet, for I can't start the games...

Windows98 is now showing black boxes on screen after I close a properties box, and I can't get rid of them with a refresh.
Also, when I open display properties, that box goes fuzzy, with interference lines...
I set the refresh-rate to optimal, for the other options made my screen go all fuzzy wuzzy !!

Okay, so I did a reinstall of most games, got the same results, and am now so far that I'll do a reinstall of Win98 tomorrow !!

It must be that number 13 in the drivers version !!

Jorden, not happy with PD5.13 !!

[Keiv]

This seems to be the most popular thread so I thought I'd post here, just one question though. I've another problem posted on the BSOD thread please help!
As for the question, here it is:
Anyone else getting a freeze when trying to restart/shutdown?
If so/not, anyone know how to help?

[ChrisB]

Guys, don't be too quick to condemn PD5.13. Everything is working great for me first try. Trust me, if anyone can screw up an install it's me. Just keep trying. I know you'll get it soon!

I just have the feeling Matrox got it right this time!

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[that guy]

Jorden, if you look at the thread I started under "great job guys" you'll see that these are the exact same (and some worse) problems that I'm having. At least I know it isn't just me. The drivers seem fine at lower resolutions and bit depths, but can't handle it when they're pushed by high res/bpp combinations.

[Elie]

I uninstalled 4.33 and installed the PD5 no problems at all with Quake 2 running like a charm.

Here's a tip reinstall PD5 but when it asks you "do you want to use existing configuration" say NO.

Also when it asks you to resuse the existing monitor files say no to that aswell.

The reason for that is everything will be set to default and things should work for you.

Cheers and good luck PD5 rocks..!!!
Elie

[that guy]

I did. It doesn't.