Solve : Video card drivers!!!?

1.	Solve : Video card drivers!!!?
Answer» I can't find any video card drivers for my ATI rage 128 pro GL after some virus wiped out my XP boot loader. And I don't have any CDs; I bought it from a shop. I only have 64MB RAM and a Pentium III 800MHz. I've already looked at the ATI SUPPORT & drivers page to no success. I tried the Rage 128/128 pro driver and it says my card isn't compatible. I am using Windoze 98SE which assumes I have a 256k graphics adapter when, in reality, I have a 32MB rage 128 pro gl card! Note: It actually says 'Standard PCI graphics adapter' which is obviously not right; it's on the AGP bus. HELP!!! thanks to anyone who can help!The shop should have given you the CD's when you bought it, unless it was a dodgy shop. So you started with XP and now moved back down to Win 98? Did you do a full reformat?There's this guy around here we call the G-Man who tells us to check google.com first, they seem to have many choices *. [highlight]http://www.driver-downloads.com/ati-driver.htm[/highlight] i'm pretty sure theres a driver in there 4uCheck ATI's website, also. Ia already checked ATIs website. They don't have anything for me there. Thanks anyways though. about the reformatting. You're half right: I had an NTFS partition (like everyone else) We moved, and then it wouldn't get past the selection menu; it froze whenever i selected a menu. So I got fed up and reinstalled my old hard drive that had Windows 98SE (I have FOUR hard drives). Then I started using Windows 98SE but it kept giving me blue screens every second. I soon found it was the memory so I messed around until I found one that WORKS. I used Windows 98SE in 640x480x4 mode and collected some viruses (I don't have anti-virus). I copied all my music, documents, videos, pictures, etc... to my secondary hard ( yet another drive). Formatted my hard drive from a boot disk, reinstalled windows 98se, installed some music programs (winamp, real) got my wireless driver working, and i'm still stuck in 640x480x4 mode. I already tried google too. And i'm not sure how to navigate driver-downloads.com (i've tried that too). Thanks for the help though!! by selection menu I mean the boot Menu (Safe mode, NORMAL...) Not even a DOS prompt can be loaded. I suspect a virus infected my computer. All the viruses are gone now though. Unless microburner has a virus. thanks again Quote I[highlight] used Windows 98SE in 640x480x4 mode and collected some viruses (I don't have anti-virus).[/highlight] This is just asking for trouble no matter which flavor of Windows you are running, especially with all the excellent Free options out there... DLoad install and update the following: AVG Free Spybot Search and Destroy Free AdAware Free Ewido Free CCleaner Free patio. 8-)OK, I found the driver I NEED now how do I download it? There is no hyperlink on the page. so I can't download it. Oh and about the Anti-virus: How much resources do they take? I don't have much resources. Thanks a bunch! Sorry if you don't like the marquee (I couldn't help it). Nevermind that, how much effort does it take to swap hardrives and reformat? Get a virus scanner now!In your post you say"I have 64 MB of ram".....Why? Windows XP will run fine with a Pentium III 800 mhz CPU. Your video card needs DirectX8 or higher are you using it? Windows 98/ME Driver build 4.13.7192 Requirements Windows 98, Windows 98 SE or Windows ME DirectX 8.x or higher Well it came with 160MB but it proved faulty. But I haven't tested it so that may prove to be M$ doing another Hardware scam. As far as the AV goes: Thanks. A lot!! It's not the CPU thats bad, its the RAM.Thanks, I just installed AVG. Works OK. I can't install Direct X until I have at least 256 colors which I can't get until the drivers are installed which I assume cannot be installed until Direct X is installed... It's a never-ending loop! Guess M$ and ATI never thought of that. eh?Why can you not do that? What error message do you receive? The colour depth shouldn't make a difference to the installation. http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp - memory tester Microsoft don't make their own brand of RAM, as far as I can tell, so simply blaming them is pointless.No they don't. But they do make DirectX. I wasn't TALKING about RAM. But thanks for the advice anyways. Maybe it was the viruses that were making my PC act funny.I'll give the rage128 pro drivers one more try... I gave them a try and look what my computer gave me as gratitude: Severe This driver is not compatible with the adapter installed on your computer. HELLLLP :-?

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I can't find any video card drivers for my ATI rage 128 pro GL after some virus wiped out my XP boot loader. And I don't have any CDs; I bought it from a shop. I only have 64MB RAM and a Pentium III 800MHz. I've already looked at the ATI SUPPORT & drivers page to no success. I tried the Rage 128/128 pro driver and it says my card isn't compatible. I am using Windoze 98SE which assumes I have a 256k graphics adapter when, in reality, I have a 32MB rage 128 pro gl card!

Note: It actually says 'Standard PCI graphics adapter' which is obviously not right; it's on the AGP bus.
HELP!!!
thanks to anyone who can help!The shop should have given you the CD's when you bought it, unless it was a dodgy shop.

So you started with XP and now moved back down to Win 98? Did you do a full reformat?There's this guy around here we call the G-Man who tells us to check google.com first, they seem to have many choices *.

[highlight]http://www.driver-downloads.com/ati-driver.htm[/highlight]

i'm pretty sure theres a driver in there 4uCheck ATI's website, also. Ia already checked ATIs website. They don't have anything for me there. Thanks anyways though.

about the reformatting. You're half right:
I had an NTFS partition (like everyone else)
We moved, and then it wouldn't get past the selection menu; it froze whenever i selected a menu. So I got fed up and reinstalled my old hard drive that had Windows 98SE (I have FOUR hard drives). Then I started using Windows 98SE but it kept giving me blue screens every second. I soon found it was the memory so I messed around until I found one that WORKS. I used Windows 98SE in 640x480x4 mode and collected some viruses (I don't have anti-virus). I copied all my music, documents, videos, pictures, etc... to my secondary hard ( yet another drive). Formatted my hard drive from a boot disk, reinstalled windows 98se, installed some music programs (winamp, real) got my wireless driver working, and i'm still stuck in 640x480x4 mode.

I already tried google too. And i'm not sure how to navigate driver-downloads.com (i've tried that too).

Thanks for the help though!!
by selection menu I mean the boot Menu (Safe mode, NORMAL...)
Not even a DOS prompt can be loaded. I suspect a virus infected my computer.
All the viruses are gone now though. Unless microburner has a virus.

thanks again Quote

I[highlight] used Windows 98SE in 640x480x4 mode and collected some viruses (I don't have anti-virus).[/highlight]

This is just asking for trouble no matter which flavor of Windows you are running, especially with all the excellent Free options out there...

DLoad install and update the following:

AVG Free
Spybot Search and Destroy Free
AdAware Free
Ewido Free
CCleaner Free

patio. 8-)OK, I found the driver I NEED now how do I download it?
There is no hyperlink on the page. so I can't download it.

Oh and about the Anti-virus: How much resources do they take? I don't have much resources. Thanks a bunch!

Sorry if you don't like the marquee (I couldn't help it). Nevermind that, how much effort does it take to swap hardrives and reformat? Get a virus scanner now!In your post you say"I have 64 MB of ram".....Why?

Windows XP will run fine with a Pentium III 800 mhz CPU.

Your video card needs DirectX8 or higher are you using it?

Windows 98/ME Driver build 4.13.7192

Requirements
Windows 98, Windows 98 SE or Windows ME
DirectX 8.x or higher

Well it came with 160MB but it proved faulty. But I haven't tested it so that may prove to be M$ doing another Hardware scam.

As far as the AV goes:
Thanks. A lot!!

It's not the CPU thats bad, its the RAM.Thanks, I just installed AVG. Works OK.

I can't install Direct X until I have at least 256 colors which I can't get until the drivers are installed which I assume cannot be installed until Direct X is installed...
It's a never-ending loop! Guess M$ and ATI never thought of that. eh?Why can you not do that? What error message do you receive? The colour depth shouldn't make a difference to the installation.

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp - memory tester

Microsoft don't make their own brand of RAM, as far as I can tell, so simply blaming them is pointless.No they don't. But they do make DirectX. I wasn't TALKING about RAM. But thanks for the advice anyways. Maybe it was the viruses that were making my PC act funny.I'll give the rage128 pro drivers one more try...

I gave them a try and look what my computer gave me as gratitude:

Severe
This driver is not compatible with the adapter installed on your computer.

HELLLLP :-?

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