Video Card Problem with Upgrade to XP

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Jason Keenaghan

I recently upgraded my old IBM Aptiva machine to run
Windows XP Home Edition in place of Windows 98SE. Since
the upgrade, I intermittently experience problems with my
video card. The card is an S3 Graphics Savage4 card,
which of course is no longer supported. The screen will
freeze for about 1 minute, and will then flicker and come
back in VGA mode (I believe), with a warning that Windows
has recovered from a serious error, and I should save all
work and reboot the machine. The online crash analysis by
Microsoft points at the s3sav4.dll as the possible
culprit, and provides a link to S3's website for obtaining
a driver update.

I copied the driver for Windows 2000/XP from the website,
and was going to try to install. However, Windows XP
would not automatically find the driver when asked to
search for it. And when manually pointed at it, kept
discouraging me from actually installing the driver
because it could not verify the logo and that it was
compatible with XP. For fear of completely messing up my
display by installing the driver anyway, I was wondering
if anyone else had experienced similar problems, and had
success in ignoring the XP warnings and installing the
driver anyway?

Thanks for any help.

--jason
 
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