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larrymoencurly · Guest

I'm having problems getting Win98 and 98SE to work in a K7S5A Pro when
I use old i740 video cards. Except in Safe Mode, when I close a
Windows program the screen, keyboard, and mouse cursor will freeze,
and only hitting the reset button will make the computer do anything
again. There are no other cards in the system. I've tried:

1. Reinstalling SiS AGP drivers 1.10 and 1.16a
2. Reinstalling the Intel driver (4.09 and 3.2)
3. Reinstalling Win98 and 98SE
4. Clean installations of Win98 and 98SE
5. Switching between DDR and PC133
6. Slowing the memory and CPU buses from 133 MHz to 100
7. Changing the AGP aperture size anywhere from 4M-128M
8. Turning off AGP 4x support in the BIOS.
9. Removing the video card in the Device Manager

There are no problems with TNT2 and SiS 305 AGP cards or with PCI
video cards Also the i740 worked OK with the same software with the
P4S5A, which is a Pentium 4 mobo based on another SiS chipset.

I realize that the i740 is a dinosaur, but I'd like to know what's
going on.

Kyle Brant · Guest

Directx version compatibility? I recall the i740 drivers only went so
far in supporting directx. (I had one of those cards also).

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| I'm having problems getting Win98 and 98SE to work in a K7S5A Pro
when
| I use old i740 video cards. Except in Safe Mode, when I close a
| Windows program the screen, keyboard, and mouse cursor will freeze,
| and only hitting the reset button will make the computer do anything
| again. There are no other cards in the system. I've tried:
|
| 1. Reinstalling SiS AGP drivers 1.10 and 1.16a
| 2. Reinstalling the Intel driver (4.09 and 3.2)
| 3. Reinstalling Win98 and 98SE
| 4. Clean installations of Win98 and 98SE
| 5. Switching between DDR and PC133
| 6. Slowing the memory and CPU buses from 133 MHz to 100
| 7. Changing the AGP aperture size anywhere from 4M-128M
| 8. Turning off AGP 4x support in the BIOS.
| 9. Removing the video card in the Device Manager
|
| There are no problems with TNT2 and SiS 305 AGP cards or with PCI
| video cards Also the i740 worked OK with the same software with the
| P4S5A, which is a Pentium 4 mobo based on another SiS chipset.
|
| I realize that the i740 is a dinosaur, but I'd like to know what's
| going on.

Donald Brownell · Guest

I also have an old intel i740 card in my K7S5A, running Win98SE. I
found that when I upgraded DirectX from version 7 to version 8, I had
freezing and blue screens. This happened every time with certain
video benchmarks, such as PCMark2002. I tried to revert to an earlier
version of DirectX, but this didn't work. The only solution I have
found is to turn off video acceleration in display properties ->
advanced -> performance. Hardware video accleration set to "NONE". I
think the video drivers are just too old, and no longer fully
compatible with recent versions of DirectX.

Regards, Don

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