New Beta Drivers ver.6.01.015

[Robbo]

New beta drivers dated 26 July now available on matrox site, 4.0mb in size

[Khalendar]

yeah they also have new w2k drivers ver 5.11 =)

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-Khal

System Specs:
Asus P3B-F bios 1005
P3-600E@800
256MB Corsair PC133
Adaptec 2940UW
G400 Max PD5.52, TGL 1.3 Win98/PD5.10beta Win2k
Diamond Voodoo2 12mb card
Pioneer Scsi 6x DVD
SoundBlaster Live
IBM 4.5gb UW Scsi
IBM 9.1gb UW Scsi
Iomega Zip100 Scsi
3com FastEthernet XL
Win98SE and Win2k

[LrngToFly]

Are these for G400 only or will they work for G200?

[DataOrb]

anything new?

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"Excuse me for butting in, but I'm interrupt-driven..."
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Worstation Specs:
Asus P3B-F w/Celeron@680mhz
160mb PC100 7ns RAM.
Matrox G400 142/190Mhz.
IBM 75GXP 7200RPM 15Gb.
Seagate U8 4.1gb Hdd,
SBlaster Live! Digital.
17" Mag InnoVision 770Ti TrinitronFR Monitor @1152X864
Logitech MouseMan Wheel USB (on Everglide Giganta SE)
Focus 127keys MM Keyboard.
HP SCSI Cd-Rw 7200Si
Aopen X48 Optical Disc Drive.
3Com NIc @ Tevel/3Com Cable Modem
Modded case, the "banshee". 6 fans.
3Com Palm IIIx + GoType + AxxPAC

[Randy Simons]

The new W2k 5.11 drivers are G400-onl I haven't downloaded them, but the filesize is about the same as the 5.10..

[JeffDavison]

Crash and burn with the new W98 6.01 beta drivers.

When installing, my Norton crashgaurd intercepts, whereas 5.25 & beta 6.00 install just fine.. back to 6.00

Jeff D.

[Sicna]

There's something new...It won't even install

The setup file seems corrupted or something like that.

Did someone succesfully installed them?

Sicna

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Asus K7V
Athlon 750Mhz
256 megs 133 Mhz
Matrox G400 MAX
Sblive Value
Windows 98 SE & 2000

[getmatrox]

No problem, here.
If you use good 'uninstall ettiquette', you don't even use setup.exe

[good health to all]

The win2000 drivers 5.11 has a much better powerdesk. The Monitor settings works like it should. Now the same as win9x. I problems in 5.10 in the "Adjust a different display Mode" where no settings showed up. Now in 5.11 it works. They did something to the g400icd.dll because now it is 6KB smaller in size. I had no trouble installing it. I uninstalled the old drivers first.

[This message has been edited by good health to all (edited 27 July 2000).]

[Sicna]

I always uninstall my old drivers before installing the new ones but I don't get why you say that you didn't have to run the setup on the new drivers.

Maybe I'm tired but you uncompress them and start the setup program. It's the way I've always done it but this time the executable is giving an illegal operation.

Just curious to know if I'm the only one.

Sicna

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Asus K7V
Athlon 750Mhz
256 megs 133 Mhz
Matrox G400 MAX
Sblive Value
Windows 98 SE & 2000

[JeffDavison]

Dittos.

Used the Matox unistall as I have done the past umpteenth driver updates. Each time till now has worked flawlessly cleaning out the old Matrox stuff. Now this spanking new driver will just crash the machine mere milliseconds of clicking on the setup icon.

This new pup (beta 6.01)just doesn't want to be installed. My system is nutin special, just an old Tyan 1832DL BX (most current bios) running an ol PII 300@450 w/256K PC100.

Been running flawlessly for 2 years now and just about a year with the G400MAX.

I can do this procedure in my sleep but this beta 6.01 is being very nasty. Have downloaded thrice to be sure no file corruption during d/l. Unzipped this guy many times for the same reason. Have cleaned the system with Matrox uninstall same # of times. Each attempted install ended the same way.

Same procedure ran flawlessly installing Beta 6.00, 5.25 and all the older drivers as well.

My advice is to avoid till big M fixes install problem

Jeff D.

[Rob M.]

here's the way most people companies have you install their drivers:

uninstall the old video drivers, reboot.

let the vga adapter install.

go to start/settings/control panel

double click the system icon

click on the device manager tab

click the plus beside display adapters

double click the std vga adapter listed there

click on the driver tab

click on update driver

(it gets a little fuzzy here because it differs depending on what version of windows you're using)
click specify location

check the box beside specify location and type in c:\mgafold\w9x_601
(or wherever you installed the drivers to)
then click next a few times... it'll ask you to reboot, and you're done! simple

[JeffDavison]

Yep, forgot about the "old fasioned" way to install the vid drivers. Well lo and behold, doing in manualy did the install trick. Drivers installed smoothly and W98SE is so far so good (only 10 minutes into the new drivers).
Seems Matrox's automated "Install" is flakey in it's latest incarnation.

If anyone is going to install the new beta then manually is the best way (outlined above) until Big M fixes the installer.

Felt obligated to follow up.
Drivers good, Auto installer bad.

Jeff D.

[giskard]

Win2k Impressions. Not too foul No lock ups so far. Dreadworkz water bug *seems*
to be fixed. Slight FPS increase in Q3A (only a frame or two).

G

[Surfwienix]

i can't run the setup.exe of the new beta-driver, too. installed it in the device-manager.

i see no differences to the first beta6

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>> Surfwienix <<
(German)

My System:

AMD K6-2/400 non-o/c
Epox MVP3C-M Super7 (VIA 4.22 + AGP v4.03)
128MB SDRAM(PC100)
Matrox Millennium G400 MAX
(PD 6.0 BETA + TGL 1.3 + DX 7a) AGP2x/256MB @IRQ11(not sharing) non-o/c
Terratec DMX Sound-System
6,4GB Maxtor HDD (UDMA33)
ASUS 50x-CDROM (UDMA33)
Realtek 8019 Ethernet (ISA)
Creatix HAM V.90 Modem
19" Monitor CTX-VL950T (95khz)
Windows 98SE