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My video locks up after I install the latest drivers and bios for my G200(5.25 & 1.04). It runs ok in Windows for a few minutes them every thing freezes and Ihave to reboot. Just did a fresh install of W98. I was using the 4.11 drivers before and all was fine. Iloaded some more recent drivers before 5.25 and had the same problem and went back to 4.11 and the old bios. I have the latest drivers for my mobo (Epox MVP3G-m)installed. My system;AMD K6-2 300,SB Live Val. G200/16mgs w/tv out,128mgs ram(pc100). Any thoughts as to what might be the problem? TIA JK
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Okay, I have a couple of suggestions for you. First, make sure that you have the latest Bios for both your motherboard and the G200. Second, and I can't verify this cause I don't ahve any first hand experience, but a number of people on the board in the past have posted messages saying that pulling the 8mb upgrade makes things more stable. Third, I don't know what chipset the Epox uses but if it's the Ali Aladdin V then you have to get the drivers from www.acerlabs.com, most mb manufacturers don't have the most up to date drivers. Fourth, "SBLive". This problem I have dealt with, the SBlive tends to try and use IRQ sharing and use the same IRQ as the G200 if you let win98 run things. Make sure that they aren't using the same IRQ. Disable the SB16 emulation if you don't need it, it just takes up another IRQ. Make sure that the card itself isn't in the first PCI slot if possible. You may have to force it to a different IRQ in the MB Bios. IRQ 5 is a good one for the SBLive and you should use 10 or above for the G200. Lastly, and I suppose I should have mentioned this first, you say that you have a G200 w/tv out. Does that mean that you have a "Marvel G200"? If that is in fact what you have then that is your problem, the 5.25 drivers do not work with the Marvel, or at least that is what I gather from Matrox's web page(If someone knows someting to the contrary on this please do speak up). You have to use the 4.33 drivers or something like that.
Hope that helps,
HedsSpaz
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Thanks for your reply. My mobo has a Via MVP-3 chipset on it and the board is rev.4 so it was the latest chipset at the time, about 4 months ago. The G200 is an oem 8meg card and I upgraded the ram to 16mgs. The tv out is the add-on that Matrox offered earlier this year. when I installed the drivers that came with the tv add-on, they did not work, same problem except that it also would not change to the higher resolutions. I will try removing the mem module and see if that helps as for the other suggestions I will try them also. I'm not familiar with assigning IRQ's but will give it a shot. Thanks again for the info.
Regards
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