G400 lockups and no 3D-stuff

[Solo22]

Hi...

I had all those same problems.

I have a "Advance 5/133" motherboard with the via chipset.

What you need to do is install the drivers that came with your motherboard. (AGP drivers mainly)

And this will fix the problem.

If you don't have the drivers on hand...you can turn the "AGP Aperture down to 8M or 16M in your BIOS...this will stop it from crashing when you shut down until you get the new drivers installed.

[LucB]

G400 lockups and no 3D-stuff

Here's what's going on after I installed the G400 DH-16Mb on a PIII-450 / 256MB on a standard win98 system (VIA chipset -VT82C693)

1. I can't shutdown anymore, it simply locks up, leaving my screen black with just the mousecursor visible

2. the resolution looks fine, refresh is great, but as soon as *anything* that remotely smells like 3D comes along (screensaver/game/3D demo from the Matrox cd) the system crashes...

I've spend 6 hours going through all the motions (different drivers, removing pheripherals like scsi and ethernet ...) as described in all the forums and newsgroup. But the problem remains. The only thing I just learned which I didn't know last night, is the thing not the use the PCIslot next to the AGPslot. I'll try that right away when I get home tonight. But I'm not really counting on it since the board in PCI1 is an AWE64 on a different IRQ than my G400.

The good part is, I didn't pay for my G400 yet, I know the guy really well and he gave it to me "in test", if I like it, I buy it ... but should I even bother?
I've loved Matrox ever since my first Marvel-II on a 486-66Mhz, it would suck to move to a different vendor.

Any, and I mean *any* :-), feedback that could restore my hope is welcome

[dmerola]

Hy! I have a G400 16MB and my system stop when i start a 3D game only if i have The bus at 66MHz (i tried with PII333 and Celeron 300) My mobo is asus p2b-f . I set the agp switch in all possibles ways in all cases but the proble for me is the bus at 66 .When i set bus at 100MHz all is ok.

[gbm]

1. Shutdown problem is quite normal. Worse: in some cases there is no cure for it on VIA-based boards, but:

2. Make sure you have installed the newest VIA stuff (GART driver and others).

3. Try to revert to Win98, not SE version.

4. Try to play with BIOS setup power management settings (APM/ACPI enable/disable).

5. Make sure to install DirectX 7 and the latest Matrox driver.

[LucB]

I got it fixed ... the good old stupid way :-)

I removed *all* cards from my machine, just put the G400 in it, and started configuring cards one by one ...

I know it's silly and a lot of work, but if you got a few good backups, the bloody thing works

thx,

LucB