A7N8X Deluxe and Connect3d Rage 128 Pro

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Just setup a new system for a friend and was wondering if anyone else have
any suggestions on the above mentioned combo.

Installed brand new Crucial 512 DDR Ram, new 2500+ Barton and new Chieftec
360W PSU (not overclocking system). Only things from old system we carried
over was a 9gig Quantum IDE and the Connect3d Rage 128 Pro video card.
Completely wiped HD, installed XP Pro, then tried installing the 6.60
drivers from the Connect3d site, installed fine, reboot and just after the
Windows XP Logo bootup screen ends, it blue screens and reboots (a continous
cycle after that). Tried all the other flavors of Rage drivers I could find
from ATI, Gigabyte, Dell, etc and they either will not install or blue
screens before the Windows desktop.

Tried reblasting Windows XP again from fresh, installed the 3.13 nVidia
chipset drivers. Then installed the ATI drivers and the result is exactly
the same. BIOS options for Fast Writes and 8x AGP have been turned off
already (although I have tried it with them on). Can't reduce the DirectX
acceleration cause we can't get into windows with any driver other than the
MS VGASAVE one.

Yes I realize that this is an old card and the easy solution would be a new
card but my friend does not yet have enough money for a new decent video
card. Using the native 5.12 Windows XP drivers, the computer is stable and
can play games fine (except OpenGL), but you can tell that it really would
help a lot if the ATI drivers could be installed on them. I've also tried
different flavours of the Omega drivers but none of them would recognize the
video card. I also have tried a different ATI Rage Pro 128 (just happened
to have a spare one on hand) and the results are the same. Don't have a
spare nvidia card around so couldn't try a non-ATI card.

Is there any other suggestions anyone could give me? I'm assuming that this
motherboard just doesn't like the newer Rage Pro drivers and/or the video
card but I could be wrong.

Thanks in advance!
 
Did you boot into safe mode first to remove the old WXP default driver?

Was the ATI Rage 128 Driver for WXP - 6.13.3279 ?

Are you certain it's a Rage Pro or Rage Pro128 and not instead a Rage Pro
XL?
 
Sling said:
Just setup a new system for a friend and was wondering if anyone else have
any suggestions on the above mentioned combo.

Installed brand new Crucial 512 DDR Ram, new 2500+ Barton and new Chieftec
360W PSU (not overclocking system). Only things from old system we carried
over was a 9gig Quantum IDE
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Nice bottleneck.
and the Connect3d Rage 128 Pro video card.
Completely wiped HD, installed XP Pro, then tried installing the 6.60
drivers from the Connect3d site, installed fine, reboot and just after the
Windows XP Logo bootup screen ends, it blue screens and reboots (a continous
cycle after that). Tried all the other flavors of Rage drivers I could find
from ATI, Gigabyte, Dell, etc and they either will not install or blue
screens before the Windows desktop.
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If it doesn't work with the 6.73s (build 5016) either, I don't know what
would.
For ATI:
http://www.3dcenter.de/treiber/grafikkarten-beta.php
For 3rd party with ATI chip:
http://www.sapphiretech.com/downloads/DRIVER/2000/R1282k_673.zip
But don't be amazed if OpenGL apps crash immediately, that apparently
happens with 376 megs or more RAM installed. (At least under Server 2003
and an original ATI Rage Fury with Rage 128 GL.)

If you can't get it to work at all, maybe you can find a GF2MX/MX400
card cheap. Such a card should work with no problems on an Nvidia
chipset, and 3D performance (along with driver support) would also be a
lot better.

Stephan
 
I used ATI Driver Cleaner 2 to remove all traces of any ATI drivers before
each try of a different version. When i'm either in safe mode or normal
mode the VGA driver is actually the VGASAVE XP service driver which can not
be uninstalled, only started or stopped (and I know that stopping that
service is bad). I've tried the drivers for Conenct3d v6.60, Sapphire v6.73
Rage Pro Ultra, v6.13.10.5016 Rage, ATI Rage Pro 6.13.3279 as well as some
of the newer Catylst ones.

It says right on the card Rage 128 Pro so unless it's stamped wrong, I don't
think it's a XT or Ultra.


Robert Sudbury said:
Did you boot into safe mode first to remove the old WXP default driver?

Was the ATI Rage 128 Driver for WXP - 6.13.3279 ?

Are you certain it's a Rage Pro or Rage Pro128 and not instead a Rage Pro
XL?

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]Robert[ remove "ALLOF YOURCLOTHES" to reply"Sling"
Just setup a new system for a friend and was wondering if anyone else have
any suggestions on the above mentioned combo.

Installed brand new Crucial 512 DDR Ram, new 2500+ Barton and new Chieftec
360W PSU (not overclocking system). Only things from old system we carried
over was a 9gig Quantum IDE and the Connect3d Rage 128 Pro video card.
Completely wiped HD, installed XP Pro, then tried installing the 6.60
drivers from the Connect3d site, installed fine, reboot and just after the
Windows XP Logo bootup screen ends, it blue screens and reboots (a continous
cycle after that). Tried all the other flavors of Rage drivers I could find
from ATI, Gigabyte, Dell, etc and they either will not install or blue
screens before the Windows desktop.

Tried reblasting Windows XP again from fresh, installed the 3.13 nVidia
chipset drivers. Then installed the ATI drivers and the result is exactly
the same. BIOS options for Fast Writes and 8x AGP have been turned off
already (although I have tried it with them on). Can't reduce the DirectX
acceleration cause we can't get into windows with any driver other than the
MS VGASAVE one.

Yes I realize that this is an old card and the easy solution would be a new
card but my friend does not yet have enough money for a new decent video
card. Using the native 5.12 Windows XP drivers, the computer is stable and
can play games fine (except OpenGL), but you can tell that it really would
help a lot if the ATI drivers could be installed on them. I've also tried
different flavours of the Omega drivers but none of them would recognize the
video card. I also have tried a different ATI Rage Pro 128 (just happened
to have a spare one on hand) and the results are the same. Don't have a
spare nvidia card around so couldn't try a non-ATI card.

Is there any other suggestions anyone could give me? I'm assuming that this
motherboard just doesn't like the newer Rage Pro drivers and/or the video
card but I could be wrong.

Thanks in advance!
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