98se and nvidia drivers problem

I've put 98se on an older p2, and downloaded the detonator drivers, but I'm getting lockups when I try to open the nView desktop, and crashes completely when I access the net. I tried downloading older 95/98/me drivers, but I get the same lockups/crashing.

I don't think it's the mobo, because I was using XP on it before, and the detonator drivers worked fine, with no lockups.

The only thing I can think of is that the drivers are somehow being corrupted by 98se, or something similar. Any ideas anyone? Thanks in advance, Ben.

 

What Graphics card have you got in it ?

Is your PSU up to the job ?

I have a GeForce4 Ti4200 and experience freezes surfing with AOL8, i've resolved this by turning OFF my Hardware Acceleration whilst online - Its under SYSTEM>PERFORMANCE>GRAPHICS just move the slider, you have to reboot each time which is a pain however.

I just turn mine back up for games.

You can also disable TwinView(if your card has it - you should see a second monitor when opening the display properties window if you do);

RUN>REGEDIT>HKLM>NVIDIA>GLOBAL>SYSTEM, create a new DWord Value, call it TwinViewDisabled and give a hexidecimal value of 1 This stops your PC hunting for the second monitor

Theres also a good article over at;

http://www.technologyvault.co.uk/geforce/faq.php?lang=en&display=faq&nr=172&c...

Mick

 

Thanks for help, Mick. I've turned off the twinview, and the acceleration, and like you said, I can surf ok without freezes. But as you said, as soon as I turn acceleration back on AOL locks up. Erm.., the only problem with this is I'm not going to be able to do any on-line gaming, which is kinda why I was trying to sort all this out. Which is a bit **** really, I mean, haven't nvidea actually tested these drivers with 98se? Ben

 

Ben,

Glad you got sorted - I actually found with Acceleration completely off that scrolling was very jittery so I now set it to 'Basic' which is the next one up from off - this works great and allows smooth scrolling but I do get the odd intermittent freeze which clears after 1 or 2 secs.

I think I will try contacting NVidia regarding this - what card have you got?

I dont play online but its a pain having to re-boot to full acceleration when I want to get on my flightsims!!

Keep me posted,

Mick

I'm on AOL9 now and its no different freezing wise!

 

Hi LeftField,
I have posted on this one before.
In my experience, if you do not have the exact Nvidia drivers
that were supplied with the card, then you get these troubles.
Downloading the latest drivers is no solution.
If you do not have the CD from the originally purchased card,
you can save a lot of bother by just buying a new card.
regards

 

I'm running the Nvidia drivers and desktop manager on Win98 SE with no problems. The software version is 40.72 if thats any help. PC configuration: Celeron 566, Win98, 192mb ram

 

I agree with Merlin about having the correct drivers in the first place. The file you downloaded at Nvidia is an 'upgrade all' file. It only updates what is currently on the system, if you have the wrong ones installed...
http://kedrin-milborn.dnsalias.net/Pages/Articles/2003/Tutorials/Debug Video Card.asp
You can use the instructions at the above webpage to use a dos program tell you exactly what video card you have, it reads the card itself.
The webpage shows what to look for in the right, and this will work in a dos window, and it is simple text, don't let all the stuff in the middle confuse you.

 

Ah.. right, so can I get the exact driver CD from nvidea? It's an nvdiea MX440 geforce4 128MB. Cheers, Ben

 

Get them from the mfg of the card or from http://guru3d.com/

 

Mark,
I didn't realise I think you need a motherboard/AGP driver for windows 98, and that you need to install them before you install the video drivers. Only problem is, I've tried the intel website (I've got an intel AL440LX) but I can't find a driver there. I tried the microsoft.com to see if they have a mobo driver, but nothing there either. Is this true, do you do need an AGP driver? And if so, anyone know where I could get it? Thanks in advance, Ben

 

I have found what you are looking for, although it seems Intel has dropped support for this board, except for onboard sound. Read this page, some of the info will not apply to you as it was written for 95. The section that will interest you is the 'Install the AGP drivers patch'
Here is the direct download link for the AGP drivers. Since this board seems to be old enough, 98 should have all the other drivers necessary, except for the AGP. I do not foresee any problems with USB.