98SE+pd5.x causes BSOD or blank screens with G400. Please Help!

[Fat Tone]

Hi

I just took delivery of my G400. It worked great in Win95, nearly tripling my D3D scores in Wintun98. I then upgraded to 98 to get multi-monitor working. This was ok, but I think needed motherboard drivers sorting out as it was no faster than then G200 it replaced.
I then booted on the 98 startup disk, deleted the Windows directory and all files in the root directory and installed 98SE. Installing PD5.13 caused a blank screen freeze whenever i tried to reboot - which is a pain when trying to set up the rest of your system to say the least.
So, with yesterdays advent of the 5.21 drivers, I removed 98SE (simmillar technique to above), reinstalled it and then installed 5.21. I now get a BSOD whenever shutting down and Wintun98 just crashes out when it tries OpenGL.
I have all power management turned off in the BIOS, but haven't yet fiddled with any 98SE settings (I did in 98, but it didn't help). Removing pd solves the problem.

Please help me sort this - I've been looking forward to this card for so long, and now it's just a pain...

Cheers

Tony.

System: K6-2-400 on a PcChips M577 Mobo (SS7, latest BIOS), G400 32 DH Vanilla, 128MB PC100, Seagate 8.4Gig, CL 2xDVD, SB PCI128, ISA 56k modem, no shared IRQs, AGP aperture 128M

[Meek]

Fello AMD K6-2 user! I have a similar set up than you, including Win98 SE, G400 32 DH, K6-2 450 etc. With 5.21 drivers OpenGL screensavers crash, otherwise OpenGL is running (slowly though, at least in Unreal, but that is said to be normal), and 3dmark99max scores are well above those of G200. (Still pretty low... a little over 2900 in 800*600, 16 bit).

However, I have not succeeded in getting AGP2x stable with any AGP drivers so far, so you might try disabling that. I do it via the MoBo (Epox MVP3e-M) bios setup, otherwise G400 tries to use AGP2x with default settings.

Also, it just occurred to me that I did not re-install VIA AGP driver after the update to 5.21. I'll try that at home...

M.

[Gum]

Fellow Super7 users!!

I have quite a similiar setup as you people do. I was able to squeeze out 3200+ 3DMark99 points after o/c at 448Mhz(4x112Mhz). If switched back to 450Mhz(4.5x100Mhz), maybe only get 2900+. All settings at AGP1X and G400 not o/c during benchmark.

I think ALi V + G400 are more friendly together compared to VIA MVP3 + G400, which had many incompatability issues after looking thru' posts in this forum.

Now, I'm able to run my G400 at AGP2x rock stable with bus-mastering enabled and all BIOS settings tuned to best possible. I will post my new 3DMark99 scores after I run them at these new settings.


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AsusP5A rev1007, K6-400 o/c to 448 (112*4), 128Mb Micron PC100 -8E SDRAM, G400 OEM 16Mb AGP, IBM 16GP 8.4, Quantum ST 3.2A, Toshiba 32X CDROM, HP CDWriter 7570i, SBLive! Value, Intel EtherXpress Pro 100TX NIC, Motorola CableModem, RIC 17" Monitor, HP Deskjet 710C, Altec Lansing ACS45 & Cambridge PCWorks

[This message has been edited by Gum (edited 09-02-1999).]

[Fat Tone]

I hope I'm not gonna have to change my mobo just to use my G400!

[This message has been edited by Tony Andrews (edited 09-02-1999).]

[Fat Tone]

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[Xenex]

I have a G200. I have Win98SE. I can't have AGPx2.

I found a fix for this problem today, but I haven't actually done it yet :-)

In BIOS Setup, DISABLE a) DRAM Read Around Write and b) DRAM Write Pipeline.

I hope this works for you, because then it may work for me!

[Fat Tone]

I'm afraid neither of these are mentioned in my BIOS.

Some people have hinted in other threads that there is a known problem with power management. Maybe they can shed some light?

BTW I have the same symptoms at 1x and 2x. AGP speed still isn't really an issue as it is hardly used.

Tony.