Video issue driving me insane

[pForce]

I'm building a computer for a friend, and I have to come to a difficult
impasse. Here's my problem.

I starting buidling the computer, and everything goes pretty well. I assemble
the basic skeleton of the motherboard, memory, CPU, floppy drive and video
card, and place it into the case, and attach the neccessary cables. It
boots up fine, and then I install Windows 98 SE. When that's done, I play
a few rounds of solitare, no big deal. And then I install the video drivers
that came with the video card. I restart, and the machine locks up during the
boot logo. I reboot into safe mode and everything seems normal.

This puzzles me, so I got to see if there are new drivers to be downloaded.
Indeed there are, and I promptly install the new drivers, after uninstalling
the old ones.

Reboot computer.

Same problem.

The video card in question is an AOpen Geforce 2 MX 200, and I'm not anywhere
near a gamer, so I'm thinking that there are maybe some more drivers to get,
after doing some research on internet resources. I go to
Nvidia, and download the latest release for their Geforce cards. I install those,
and I still have the same problem. I boot back into safe mode, yet again,
only to find that I have Windows Error Code 24: Drivers not installed ...
or words to that effect.

My question is, what am I missing? Is there a step I overlooked in installing
this video card? The motherboard supports AGP 2x, and I don't see why
the card doesn't work, because it should be backwards compatible.
I'm guessing that it can't be a problem with any of the other
components because the computer ran fine without the video card, but that might
show how much I know.

System components:

Soyo SY-6BE motherboard
Pentium 2 333mHz CPU
64 MB RAM of unkown brand
AOpen Geforce 2 MX-200
Western Digital hard drive, 30.0 GB/7200 rpm

Thanks for your help in advance.

 

[Cirrus9]

You may want to save the device drivers locally on the HD and reseat your video card after removing the device from device manager. Try rebooting and allow plug and play to detect the device drivers locally and installing them by browsing for the file. The problem can stem from an improperly seated card or from a corrupt driver download, so you may want to download them again. Hope this helps.

 

[cdogg]

Your card, however, wants to run at AGP 4X unless otherwise told. You need to make sure that during the install, the setup wizard "doesn't" mention "turbo" mode. I know one time when I installed an Asus Geforce MX 400 video card, the drivers defaulted to the "turbo" mode, but gave the option to select "standard". Since your mobo only supports up to 2X, you'll want to be sure that you choose standard.

If this isn't your issue, you need to make sure that the BIOS settings are correct as well. Check the documentation that came with the card. It should have specific instructions on which settings to check...

~cdogg

 

[ceh4702]

There are some Motherboards/CPUs that you have to change settings in the BIOS and install the AGP drivers for the motherboard. For AMD CPU's you may need the Microsoft Certified AGP Miniport Driver from the AMD Website. Some motherboards use a 4-in-1 driver for the AGP and GART drivers like the VIA 761 chipset. The older the motherboard the harder it gets.

Windows 95 may be difficult to get the AGP slot to work just right because of OS issues. The newer the OS the less problems you will be likely to see. If you do not like my post feel free to point out your opinion or my errors.