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Matrox G400 Dual Head 32 crashing windows on shut down or restart"
I'm getting fatal exceptions (blue screens) on restart or shutdown in win98se, at first I thought is was power management but I have no problems if I change the adapter to a windows standard vga or super vga. It only misbehaves if I choose the dual head as the adapter.
Did you use the latest drivers??
I still have the problem, the drivers on the cd were old 9-22-99, I used the uninstall utility and then installed the latest non-beta drivers dated feb/2000 version 5.52.015 ;> When shutting down the screen goes black but the mouse pointer is still visible but frozen. When restarting I get the blue screen fatal exception with the address and vxd (vmm)something or other, I'm going to try revs vxdfix next but that would just be tooo easy to hope for now wouldn't it.
Another thing I noticed is I have a pci multimedia device flagged in Other devices in the device mangler, I am just putting this system together and right now I only have the G400 and 128mb corsair pc133, cpu on the motherboard, (that's the way I do it with a new box one thing at a time). So I'm not sure why windows is detecting a multimedia device besides the G400 when the motherboard is not populated. This is a virgin install of win98se on a new partioned, formatted WD 15gig ata66, on a Abit VT-6x4, running a 566 flip that will be OCed to 850 if I ever get there.
So now I'm asking myself why bother with the matrox drivers at all??? Well without them all I can get is 16 colors at 640x480 so far but I'm far from giving up on any solution.
Oh and yes I did install all the via service pack drivers that came with my motherboard, that solved the pci audio device issue.
'thanks for your help
Matrox G400 Dual Head 32 crashing windows on shut down or restart"
I'm getting fatal exceptions (blue screens) on restart or shutdown in win98se, at first I thought is was power management but I have no problems if I change the adapter to a windows standard vga or super vga. It only misbehaves if I choose the dual head as the adapter.
Did you use the latest drivers??
I still have the problem, the drivers on the cd were old 9-22-99, I used the uninstall utility and then installed the latest non-beta drivers dated feb/2000 version 5.52.015 ;> When shutting down the screen goes black but the mouse pointer is still visible but frozen. When restarting I get the blue screen fatal exception with the address and vxd (vmm)something or other, I'm going to try revs vxdfix next but that would just be tooo easy to hope for now wouldn't it.
Another thing I noticed is I have a pci multimedia device flagged in Other devices in the device mangler, I am just putting this system together and right now I only have the G400 and 128mb corsair pc133, cpu on the motherboard, (that's the way I do it with a new box one thing at a time). So I'm not sure why windows is detecting a multimedia device besides the G400 when the motherboard is not populated. This is a virgin install of win98se on a new partioned, formatted WD 15gig ata66, on a Abit VT-6x4, running a 566 flip that will be OCed to 850 if I ever get there.
So now I'm asking myself why bother with the matrox drivers at all??? Well without them all I can get is 16 colors at 640x480 so far but I'm far from giving up on any solution.
Oh and yes I did install all the via service pack drivers that came with my motherboard, that solved the pci audio device issue.
'thanks for your help
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