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Re: offtopic: ATI XPERT 98 and Win98

• Posted by Bernie <xotron at PCOM.NET> Sep 20, 2000
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On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 18:26:36 -0700, Mike Hurley <mike_hurley_2 at YAHOO.COM>
wrote:

>I just got a XPERT 98 w/ RAGE PRO chipset and my
>system locks up after I install my video drivers.  My
>motherboard is a Tyan Trinity 400 S1854.

  Mike:

  Does your system ever lockup if you just boot up use a dos floppy ?

  Have you tried your video card in a friend's system ?

  Have you tried a different AGP video card ( non-ati ) in your system ?

  Have you look on TYAN WEB site to see if there is a bios upgrade
  for your motherboard ? Be very careful if you decide to upgrade
  because you can wipe out your bios. Also see if there are any notes
  about using Tyan and the ATI video.

  Sometimes a CD for the MOTHERBOARD comes with your system, check to
  see if there is any information on it.

  In your BIOS try changing PCI/VGA Palette Snoop to the opposite setting.

  Also be absolutly sure that you don't have a Interrupt conflict some
  video cards have jumpers when set will cause the card to use a interrupt.
  I remember one ATI video card that used the same interrupt as one
  of the COM ports.

  To be sure it is not a interrupt causing the problem, remove the
  soundcard, modem, and any unnecessary cards. Go in the bios and disable
  COM2 and LPT1. Then boot up into windows and see if the system locks up
  if not try adding one thing at a time to see which is causing a conflict.

  Bernie