First post, by GriffintheFolf
I'm using a low-profile GeForce 6200 AGP video card with 512 MB VRAM in an HP Compaq d530 SFF system, running Windows 98 SE.
The system does have official support for Windows 98 SE; I believe it uses an Intel 865 series chipset.
However, after installing chipset drivers and then installing the Nvidia drivers (version 81.98), upon rebooting, the system shows the Windows 98 boot screen before proceeding to a blinking cursor for a few seconds, which is normal. The screen then goes blank for a second or two while it is loading the video driver, but then it returns to the blinking cursor and locks up, proceeding no further.
I've already tried many different updates and fixes, such as installing Internet Explorer 6 SP1 and updating DirectX to 9.0c. I even tried some of the various unofficial Nvidia drivers for Windows 9x.
An earlier post in this forum also mentions issues with the type of card I have, but the original poster implied that even though they got a display error from Windows, it still displayed some sort of image; like described previously, I am getting nothing at all. I also tried suggestions from that thread, including decreasing the AGP aperture size in the BIOS, to no avail.
Any help with this would be much appreciated.
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