The original W2K drivers for G200 crash my computer

[egov]

Hi!
Please help me on this issue. I am using G200 Marvel TV on PIII computer with ASUS CUSL2-C Intel chipset. With the original W2K drivers everything is fine. But when I install the Matrox drivers the troubles start -- computer freezing, corrupted icons etc, vertical lines on the screen, etc. I posted a message
here , reinstalled Windows a few times from skratch, moved around network cards, sound cards but nothing helps. It does not seem to be a hardware problem, because the Matrox drivers for WIN98 (I have two partitions -- Win98 & Win2000) work just fine. The computer is connected to a UPS.

[High_Jumbllama]

I cannot help but ask this question, "Why are you not using the latest drivers?"

[Ribbit]

If I'm reading his post right, it's the latest drivers that are causing problems. In which case, my advice would be just use the original W2K drivers, unless there's a reason not to.

Edit: Missing "unless". Talk about not getting my meaning across....

[Wombat]

Probably because he wants to use it as a Marvel (TV and all that).

But Matrox has pretty much stopped supporting the Marvel, sorry.

[Peter Aragon]

Hi Egov

I have seen this behaviour before of a g400 on the CUSL2-C. I thought I solved it by installing the latest Intel INF chipset drivers and not installing the Intel Application Accelerator software. It has to do something with the memory writing.... maybe try disabling write combining in the advanced display properties, in the trouble shooting tab.

Good luck,
Peter

ps. consider an ATI All-In-Wonder card as Matrox stopped supporting Marvel cards.

[kjliew]

I am not sure if you do need the capability of Marvel. If you do not, try W2k_586. This is the best driver for G200 that I have so far. Rock solid, and WHQL-certified, I even use it for my brother system which has a VIA AGP implementation and running W2k as well. Any version after that just cause system instability. This is on VIA system though.

[schmosef]

Originally posted by Peter Aragon
Hi Egov

I have seen this behaviour before of a g400 on the CUSL2-C. I thought I solved it by installing the latest Intel INF chipset drivers and not installing the Intel Application Accelerator software. It has to do something with the memory writing.... maybe try disabling write combining in the advanced display properties, in the trouble shooting tab.

Good luck,
Peter

ps. consider an ATI All-In-Wonder card as Matrox stopped supporting Marvel cards.

I was thinking of suggesting to check the chipset drivers when I saw Peter's post. The only thing I can add is that from selling about a dozen or so of those boards a few years ago, we observed a much higher than normal defect rate. Cards that had problems in one board worked just fine in another. Normally, Asus makes very good and stable boards. The quality of the CUSL2 series wasn't very consistent and was out of step for Asus.

Now that I think about it, I seem to remember one of my employees having trouble with his TV Tuner card on a CUSL2-C board. I don't remember what model it was. He never was able to get it working; he gave up and bought a TV.