First post, by H3nrik V!
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So, I'm about to revive an Asus P2B-DS to glory. I'm starting with a W98SE installation before dual booting either 2000 or XP.
But, after I install the driver for the G400 in Windows 98se, the screen goes into artifacts. Not a normal image with artifacts on top, but artifacts only. Also it seems unresponsive, I don't see any cursor movement and no reaction to ALT-F4 either. Starting in safe mode, uninstalling driver makes it back to working, but 640x480 only.
I've tried both 6.83.017 and 6.82.016 drivers from vogondrivers. My first thought was missing Intel inf for the BX chipset, but that made no difference. I even tried yet another clean install, inf before Matrox driver, but still no luck.
I don't suspect it to be the card's BIOS being corrupted? It usually manifests with no image in text mode, or am I wrong and would it be worth a try to recover the BIOS?
The G400 ran 3DMark 2001 fine a few days ago on an Intel 815 board, and has also run on my Intel SE440BX-2 board very recently, so I don't suspect a defective card per se ..
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