An update to this thread...
Thanks to 5u3 tips on how to get my joyport working I've started using this machine..
Tested some SVGA games and come to the conclusion that some won't work...one is Nascar 2 that doesn't want to launch since the univbe driver (uvconfig) that comes with it doesn't like my card...have ran this game on my 486 with has a tseng et4000w32p based card and it doesn't need this driver since I think my gfx card has built in VESA support this game needs
So I stuffed in a Geforce 256 32mb card...same result...another GF2 produced the same result
Do i just own some incopatible models of the Geforce cards or do their VESA support generally suck?