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    I reinstalled my machine today, stripping it down to its bare essentials (VA-503+, K6-III 450, G200 (With CPU cooler fan Krazy GLUEd to heatsink) Maxtor 10 GB 7200 rpm IDE HD (and HD cooler) on primary master and CRW9420 on secondary master. Did a clean install of Win98 SE (Did not format the drive, just used BeOS to kill Windows and Program Files dirs, and to remove all non directory entries in rootdir (C . Much quicker than deltreeing or even killing the dirs from another windows installation but I digress.
    Reinstalled win98se in about 15 or so minutes (love that K6-III), then ran the VIA 4in1 driver file. I noticed it only gave me the option to install the busmaster drivers and the irq routing function. I have also noticed that viagart.vxd doesn't seem to be installed but vgartd.vxd is. Could this be the reason why busmastering does not work?
    By the way, the 5.21 drivers are more stable in direct3d than 5.13, in fact they approach 4.51 in stability. Picture quality is a little better. OpenGL ICD is problematic. It causes all kinds of screen corruption. A pity since it seems to be quite fast according to WinTune98. 70 MPixels/s as opposed to 5 for 4.51 albeit without an ICD. The machine doesn't hang, the screen just becomes seriously corrupted, I can still shut down and all that. 5.13 would cause me to have to do a hard reset when I did anything openGL related like try to run lava. Any suggestions as to how to install viagart.vxd, right click install ofviagart.inf doesn't work.

    OK silly me installed old 4in1 version 9. Just dled version 11 (Aug 13) and installed it. Will reboot now and see what has changed

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    Cracker_99
    VA-503+, 450 MHz K6-III, 96 MB EDO DRAM, 10 GB Maxtor HD, SB Live!, Millennium G200 8MB AGP, AVerMedia TV98, AOPEN CRW 9420, FPS 1000, 2 MS SideWinder Gamepads
    Win98 (2222A), BeOS 4.5.1, RedHat 5.2 with Kernel 2.2.11



    [This message has been edited by DentyCracker (edited 09-03-1999).]
    [size=1]D3/\/7YCR4CK3R
    Ryzen: Asrock B450M Pro4, Ryzen 5 2600, 16GB G-Skill Ripjaws V Series DDR4 PC4-25600 RAM, 1TB Seagate SATA HD, 256GB myDigital PCIEx4 M.2 SSD, Samsung LI24T350FHNXZA 24" HDMI LED monitor, Klipsch Promedia 4.2 400, Win11
    Home: M1 Mac Mini 8GB 256GB
    Surgery: HP Stream 200-010 Mini Desktop,Intel Celeron 2957U Processor, 6 GB RAM, ADATA 128 GB SSD, Win 10 home ver 22H2
    Frontdesk: Beelink T4 8GB

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    DentyCracker
    Just sent you an email with ver 12 of the 4in1 patch attached, let me know how it works out.

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    Ron. BH6 etc.
    Office: Giga266A, XP1900+, 1GB PC2100. 80GB Maxtor, Matrox G550 Integraph 21", Sceptre 19"
    Home:#1.Abit IS7, 512MB OCZ DDR 533, P4C2600 at 3260, LiteOn 411S DVDRW, LiteOn 481248 CDRW,WD 80G ATA100, Audigy, 2X IBM P202, Radeon 9600 Pro as well.
    #2. TB 1.33G/KR7AR133/512MB PC2100. MSI GF4-4200TI, Maxtor 13.6/40G drives/Ricoh 121032 CDRW, Hitachi 8X DVD, AOpen 52X. etc.
    #3. P3-700-512MB/BX6R2/GF2MX400/
    etc. #4,#5 Various P2 with G400, G200.

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    • #3
      Hey Ron...where did you find ver 4.12??? I figure if VIA ain't got it...no clue where to look..

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      • #4
        Picked it up off one of the review sites a couple of days ago, unfortunately I forgot to make a note of where. (I'm just a driver junky, I'll download it even I don't need it, just in case somebody I know needs it).
        Ron

        Note: Anyone who wants this patch just send me an email and I'll attach it to the reply.
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        Ron. BH6 etc.


        [This message has been edited by Ron (edited 09-03-1999).]
        Office: Giga266A, XP1900+, 1GB PC2100. 80GB Maxtor, Matrox G550 Integraph 21", Sceptre 19"
        Home:#1.Abit IS7, 512MB OCZ DDR 533, P4C2600 at 3260, LiteOn 411S DVDRW, LiteOn 481248 CDRW,WD 80G ATA100, Audigy, 2X IBM P202, Radeon 9600 Pro as well.
        #2. TB 1.33G/KR7AR133/512MB PC2100. MSI GF4-4200TI, Maxtor 13.6/40G drives/Ricoh 121032 CDRW, Hitachi 8X DVD, AOpen 52X. etc.
        #3. P3-700-512MB/BX6R2/GF2MX400/
        etc. #4,#5 Various P2 with G400, G200.

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        • #5
          Installed version 12 of 4in1. Used normal mode. Now OGL test in Wintune is back to hard reset stage. The test ran fine on the first 2 occasions then locked up the machine on the third attempt.
          [size=1]D3/\/7YCR4CK3R
          Ryzen: Asrock B450M Pro4, Ryzen 5 2600, 16GB G-Skill Ripjaws V Series DDR4 PC4-25600 RAM, 1TB Seagate SATA HD, 256GB myDigital PCIEx4 M.2 SSD, Samsung LI24T350FHNXZA 24" HDMI LED monitor, Klipsch Promedia 4.2 400, Win11
          Home: M1 Mac Mini 8GB 256GB
          Surgery: HP Stream 200-010 Mini Desktop,Intel Celeron 2957U Processor, 6 GB RAM, ADATA 128 GB SSD, Win 10 home ver 22H2
          Frontdesk: Beelink T4 8GB

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