Abit VA-20 with Win98se

[TomSwingruber]

I have not been able to make the VA-20 work
correctly if I use onboard video with Win98.
I have 3 new boards and and all the trimmings.
I tried loading updated drivers and every other trick
I could of think of(or was suggested to me).
The boards worked fine if I loaded Win2000 or
worked with 98 if I used a video board in the back plane.
If I load the onboard video driver it shows 2
adapters/monitors.
The board also exibits some other flaky things once the onboard video driver is loaded.

Abit support thought maybe a 450 watt power supply
might help, because that is what is in ther test board.
Howerever they did not load Win98.

 

[jared5494]

onboard video will not eat your power supply, so im sure you are good. I remember i used to have an old problem with nVidia's TNT 2's driver which gave the same problem.

Here is what i did to solve it:

1> uninstall all the video drivers in the device manager
2> reboot your computer and when it pops up to install your drivers, just click "standard VGA adapter" or something like that
3> now click on "update driver" and point to the drivers you downloaded
4> restart

see if that works

-jared

 

[TomSwingruber]

I have tried what you suggest but still had flakey issues.
Since I had other requirements I abondon using the VA-20
on board video and used the boards for a different app.
The board is OK with Win 2000 so I think it is a matter of the Win98 drivers.

This new app required dual monitors.
I had 4 of the VA-20 boards so worked out a scheme that
runs very stable with Win98.
Guess its time to get out of the Win98 OS.
We have gone to Linux servers and Win 2000 clients on new
applications and in house.
We have tried XP but found it too bloated and
not worth the effort to make it perform like an easy to
use business platform.
Thank you for taking time to address my problem.

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Getting Win98 to work on combo of:
- ABIT VA-20 motherboard
- Jaton 3DForce MX4000-64 Twin video-board

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install: Windows 98se

install: WinZip

install: downloaded 4-in-1 driver
note... only install "via inf driver 2.3a"

install: downloaded NIC driver

install: downloaded Audio driver

install: USB driver (from ABIT disk)

install: Internet Explorer 6 (used "typical" settings)

install: Direct-X (from Jaton disk)

install: video driver (from Jaton disk)
note... this won't run from the AutoRun screen,so instead,
navigate to the "Win9X" folder and run "Setup.exe"
note... the second monitor resolution cannot be set until
it is selected to be part of the desktop


set-up: network links

 

[BadBigBen]

Win 98SE will not function properly on motherboards with CPU that run above 2GHZ and MEM higher than 256mb... this is an OS limitation, as 98SE was designed for the Hardware that was prevailing at the time (1997)...

So you had learned the Hardway, and going with 2k is your best bet there anyhow within a business area...



Ben

If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer...