No Drivers for windows 2000?

[WaR-ped]

<font color="#8080ff">hey all. im a regular at the hivenetwork. I just got my g400 max in the mail. well, to make a long story short.. it works in 98 but refuses to in 2000. any thoughts? i have the full version of windows 2000. After o run the windows 2000 beta setup driver that i downloaded from matrox(5.01), it installs, asks me to restart, and when i get back into windows, it tells me that the driver "was written for a previous version of windows". hmmm... Ive tried almost everything to get this darn thing to work...any thoughts would be much appreciated... thanks </font>

[Scytale]

Try installing the W2K drivers instead...

[WaR-ped]

i tried that. thats what im having trouble with....

[Scytale]

Yeah, I know. Just pulling your leg, sorry. Then again you might have been trying to install W98 drivers on W2K.
It's a strange problem. Do you get it with any of the two W2K beta drivers?

Have you tried installing the driver(s) from Safe Mode (VGA)?

And a tricky way to force things might be by using the Udate Driver function from the Device Manager after expanding the driver package. You'd have to copy the DLLs manually too. Not really advisable.

[nufan]

I got it going the first time.. here's what i did (it's usually better to do it this way anyhow)

install win2k, do NOT tell it which video drivers to use.. let it go with plain ol' vga.

Let it finish installing, unpack the video drivers do a direcotry somewhere, run the add new hardware wizard thing in control panels.. it should give you a list of things it doesnt have drivers for.. the g400 should be there. Click it, then go through the update driver process, and tell it the dir you unpacked the drivers to..

also make sure you got the win2k ones.. i know i know.. seems obvious, but still.. =)

-]nufan[-

[WaR-ped]

rats... does that mean i gotta reinstall windows? shit.. that sux... please tell me there is another way...

[noackjr]

Try removing the G400 as a device in Device Manager, rebooting, and installing the drivers then. Make sure you say no to the install drivers wizard and run the setup program. Also, delete any of the oem*.inf files in C:\WINNT\INF that are from Matrox (just open them up and check them out). If that doesn't work, I don't know what will.

Jon

[WaR-ped]

Dear G-D i think i figured it out.. after screwing with it multiple times... it seems to be working... the way to go for some reason is through control panel.... add/remove... search... (it wont find it.) add display.... find the drivers and install.... its workin so far... why the setup program doesnt work... u got me.... oh well.

[WaR-ped]

okay.. this is weird... the only way it works is if the driver is installed twice... so now under device manager i have it installed twice. one is working the other isnt. if i disable the not working one and reboot im back to square one... weird huh?

[Damien Green]

Have you tried installing a creative DXR3 card in Win 2000 using the NT4 drivers. I did this and got the same problem with the Matrox Beta drivers. I cured it by uninstalling the DXR3 drivers using Add/Remove programs. TO get the DVD card working, download the drivers for the real magic Hollywood Plus from the Sigma Designs website - http://www.sigmadesigns.com. Download the drivers and applications for both DXR2 and DXR3 cards. Next install the dvd application for the DXR2 card - yes that's DXR2 not the DXR3. DO NOT INSTALL the DXR2 drivers - just the application. Next install the DXR3 application - which will detect the DXR2 application and bypass the installation of its own drivers which caused my problem in the first place. All creative files can be downloaded from http://www.creativelabs.com.

[noackjr]

By the way, the DXR2 works great with the Win98 WDM drivers. No problems at all...

Jon