g200 problem

[string]

hi,

in the last thread i hailed the g400 picture qualities. the comp i removed my old g400 is one of my seti crunchers, my gf usually also works on.
i replaced the g400 with a g200 on that system which runs win98se.
after rebooting that system with g200 installed all went fine, i installed the new matrox drivers and they worked flawless after rebooting.
now the next day when i came from uni my gf was not extremly happy as she rebooted the system and after rebooting when starting the destop windows showed only a big distortion. (looks like when the comp crashes due too high overclocking settings)

now i have some ideas what could be the problem:
-bios got a problem and should be reflashed.
-i didnt do a correct cleaning of the old matrox drivers and in some way they messed up - but against that would be that even with the win98 default drivers same problem occurs now.
-some ram chip is defect on the card thus when the drivers try to swich in non standard-vga mode it crashes.
-it has a problem with the old amd750 chipset. a lot cards had problems with it, but the g400 ran in the same board flawless.

any ideas?

greets,
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[box]

I've had that problem too, with my old Asus K7M (also AMD750 chipset) and a G200, only fix I found is to reboot in safe mode, remove Matrox software, reboot, reinstall Matrox software... under Win 9x that is.

After upgrading the machine to Win XP, it's been working without a hitch, go figure.

[string]

ah thanks for the hint. ill try that out

[Greebe]

the G200/G400/G450/G550/Parhelia work flawless on the AMD 750 chipset.

[Wombat]

Is it a PCI or AGP G200? The 75x chips were great, but most boards only used the north bridge, and used a crap VIA south bridge (K7M included).

[string]

its an agp g200, hadnt time yet to try box`s idea out.