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  • Installing the v6.0.015 (beta_w9x601.exe) beta driver crashes!

    Okay, here what happened. I uninstalled the first beta 6 drivers. Rebooted to VGA mode, ran the setup.exe and immediately got:

    SETUP caused an invalid page fault in
    module SETUP.EXE at 0177:00402fe6.
    Registers:
    EAX=ffffffff CS=0177 EIP=00402fe6 EFLGS=00010212
    EBX=bff5582a SS=017f ESP=0066e1e0 EBP=00000000
    ECX=00000018 DS=017f ESI=00000000 FS=10cf
    EDX=00402fe6 ES=017f EDI=00691ebc GS=0000
    Bytes at CS:EIP:
    8b 00 50 e8 d2 14 00 00 8b c8 e8 0b 22 00 00 8d
    Stack dump:
    0066e20c 0000827c 0066e224 0066e258 00684430 00000000 0066e240 00424108 00000000 00416f89 bff7363b 000003f4 00000110 00000000 00441f4c 825627ef

    I never got to see the Matrox background and the welcome/introduction screen! Also, I noticed it left a few files in my temporary directory (g:\temp\). I dumped the crash to a file from Dr. Watson (Windows 98). You can view it at: http://home.apu.edu/~philpi/temp/watson-beta-w9x601.zip (65K zipped) if it helps anyone to debug. You need to run drwatson.exe to view this binary log file (mine was in c:\windows\drwatson.exe).

    I ran the final version of 5.52.015, and it didn't crash! What the heck? I even clean boot for the beta 6 drivers. I know the file is not corrupted because I did a Pkzip test on it. No errors. I am using Windows 98 OEM (original), Pentium II 300 Mhz, 128 MB of RAM, Matrox G400 32 MB (non-MAX), etc.

    Does anyone know where I can contact the beta developers with this information I have? I look forward to receiving replies soon.

    [This message has been edited by antdude (edited 28 July 2000).]
    Ant @ The Ant Farm (http://antfarm.ma.cx)

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    http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/Forum5/HTML/009155.html
    <TABLE BGCOLOR=Red><TR><TD><Font-weight="+1"><font COLOR=Black>The world just changed, Sep. 11, 2001</font></Font-weight></TR></TD></TABLE>

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    • #3
      For those of you who are wondering what happened to the beta drivers, they got pulled because something went wrong with the setup file when it got zipped (it worked fine before being zipped). They will be fixed and reposted I hear. I guess these things happen.



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      • #4
        Well, no wonder! Good thing I wasn't alone. :I
        Ant @ The Ant Farm (http://antfarm.ma.cx)

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        • #5
          Just copy the drivers from this version to the previous version. Then install.
          C:\DOS
          C:\DOS\RUN
          \RUN\DOS\RUN

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          • #6
            No need to do that, just use the stinking inf.

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