I SOLVED THE BLACK SCREEN, 4 MEG APETURE PROBLEM IN WIN2K FINALLY!!!

[PR-man]

Ok sorry about the caps im just so excited, I was having the black screen problem in win2k with my pa-2013 rev 2.1 and matrox g400 32 meg card. only soultion was to drop the apeture to 4 megs and turn off agp2x. well i was searching websites and happen upon a article on www.tomshardware.com about a fix for win2k and via 133kx chipsets. It seems that Asus has a beta version of viaagp.sys that they altered and it was made to fix the problems win2k not seeing the agp port on via 133kx based mobos. Well I said what the hell even thouigh I have a MPV3 chipset based pa-2013 and I downloaded and replaced my current viaagp.sys with the new one. WELL HOLY @#$% NOW IM ABLE TO BOOT INTO WIN2K WITH 128 MEG APETURE AND AGP2X RUNNING SMOOTH AND NO PROBLEMS AFTER 3 HOURS OF PLAY. I confirmed with powerstrip that agp2x is activated and apeture is 128. and to think I thought it was an FIC bios problem. It was VIA all along. Well dont wait goto this link and download the driver and switch it out in safe mode. YEAH!!!!!

http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/00q2/000508/kx133-01.html

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Win2k rocks!!! Now if only my chipset was not VIA !!!!!!!!

[Kruzin]

Hehehe
Typical PR type
"I SOLVED".
And just how many hours of driver coding did you have in that fix?

J/K
Glad you found your solution Hopefully this will help many others with similar problems...

[Greebe]

Just wait til FIC fixes your BIOS and puts you back to square one again! LOL

[Kruzin]

Oh...and does this mean you don't need that Celeron any more? UPS found that missing P3 today

[Hugh G Recshun]

Kruzin,

What's funny about this is that this fix was first posted for MVP3 chipsets, so it takes a WHOLE LOT of PR spin to make it a new solution of his making

[PR-man]

sorry I did not mean I solved, I should have said I stumbled upon my bad I was excited that my problem was gone and was typing fast



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Win2k rocks!!! Now if only my chipset was not VIA !!!!!!!!

[CannyOne]

Well, I'll be a "Marmoset's Father's Brother." Maybe this driver isn't just a warmed over MVP3 driver!?! My guestion is, PR-man, Does your OpenGL actually work? If it does I think I'll try to install those 5.04 drivers with my G400Max, through Safe Mode! Cause while D3D does seem much improved. OpenGL is still hosed! And since I found out about this "little secret". I don't want to go blaming Matrox for too much. Know what I mean?

OH! And I am very thankful I don't have to ReInstall Win2K Again! So my thanks go to "Dr Tom"!!

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[PR-man]

Ok well Im still just running the 5.03 drivers but i tried quake 3 demo test and it still locks up with looping sound (even if I disable sound card) it enters the game but as soon as i move forward it locks. Now opengl screensavers work perfect. Have not tried Quake 2 yet but i expect the same

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Win2k rocks!!! Now if only my chipset was not VIA !!!!!!!!

[PaulS]

Gosh, when I saw the title of this thread I expected to read that you had got a nVidia card.

Paul

[Rags]

Paul,

Too bad that nVidia is having similar problems with SS7 and win2k. Heh.

Rags

[PR-man]

CannyOne I just installed quake 2 and opengl runs superb no lockups or distortions. I installed the 3dnow patch also and i can play all the play up to 1600x1200 32 bit with no problems.

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Win2k rocks!!! Now if only my chipset was not VIA !!!!!!!!