New Win2000 driver problem

[Nuno]

I´ve posted this in anothere tread, but now I´m seeing I´m not alone.

"I had a nightmare installing the drivers. I ran the setup and when it was almost done it exited with a message "Instalation was canceled ... file is missing ... "! Oh no... I tried it again, again the same error. I restarted and I got vga 16 mode. Not good. I tried to manually install the drivers and it was even worse, got the same error at the beggining of the installation. I tried to install 5.03 again and IT DID THE SAME THING! Now I was completely confused. I tried again and again, the I went to device manager and saw that the device was disabled. I enabled it, rebooted, and all was fine. Yes, powerdesk was 5.04. I tried a few timedemos and the performance was terrible. Tried to install 5.03 again. Same error. Tried to hack the registry to uninstall all matrox entried, and screwed it, the I couldn´t install any drivers because of a registy error. I the run win2k setup and choose the repair option. Don´t ask me why, but it booted up fine and powerdesk 5.04 was installed. Performance was good now, it even went from 63 fps in q2 to 73, so these drivers seem to be better.
Ok, it works and I´m not complaining, but anyone has some ideas why this happened? I wouldn´t want such a nightmare in the next matrox win2k release, so I´d like to know what I did wrong (it must be me, because I see nobody else had this problem)"

I wonder if I had my G400 oc´ed to 150/200 as usual when I was trying to install the drivers...

[Lockheed]

There's a simple way to get the new 5.04 drivers to install on cards other than the regular G400. I did this with my G400 Marvel and haven't had any problems so far, but your results may vary.

Download the 5.04 drivers from Matrox, goto where it unzips the files. By default it puts them in c:\mgafold\w2k504.

Open the file install.inf with notepad. Go down to the [Mfg.Matrox] section. For a G400 based card, go down to the G400 section and under "G400 - English".

You will notice that some of the vendor ID's are missing. Which is keeping setup from recognizing that you have a G400 based card. Easiest way to get around this is to open the install.inf file from the 5.03 powerdesk and find the same section. You'll see that it has alot more vendor ID's listed under the same section. Just copy and paste the section into 5.04's install.inf file. Save and run setup and it should detect your card.

The same procedure should work for a G200 based card.

If you try this, you do so at your own risk. I take no responsibility for any problems as a result of trying this procedure.



[This message has been edited by Lockheed (edited 11 April 2000).]

[PeTe]

Actually,

I did install the 5.04 drivers and had no problems in W2k with them. No tricks, when it shows the list of cards ( G400, and you cant select it ) i just hit NEXT, and it installed the drivers.

Cant really compare the performance, just installed W2k 2 minutes before the driver install, but did a check with Q3 and with my settings i got 53fps in Win2K ( 49 fps in Win98SE - with TurboGL ).. Unreal tournamet seemed much slower, but havent done a timedemo.. so cant tell for sure.

Pe-Te

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C300A@463, Abit BH6, 128 PC100, Matrox G400MAX, Hitatchi CM752 19" + Nokia Valuegraph 449E 15" + 21Gb HD, FF wheel, etcetc.