I have Geforce Fx 5200 (AGP) and use Detonator 43.xx or 44.xx

Newer versions have Problems with older Games (ColinMcRae-Rally Main Menue is then corrupt)

Maybe you could try some older Omega-Drivers?

Ok, thanks for the tip.

I did try modding the 61.76 and the system didn't give an error.. it just locked loading Windows with a black screen and a few places on the screen having different colored characters on it.

I did some research on the CONFIGMG windows protection error and it looks like it could either be something with RAM or something with the L2 cache flushing as it is loading Windows or something to do with APM, but this laptop doesn't even have APM.

Yay for putting Windows 98 on a laptop that was never meant to have Windows 98 on it.

The video is most likely the last issue I am going to have to figure out as I finally found working chipset and onboard sound drivers for it.

Edit: I ruled out it being the RAM. I dropped the RAM down to 256MB from 512MB and it didn't make a difference.

Time to try an old Omega driver pack and see what it does.

The other option is that Windows is trying to use an area of RAM that is already in use by the video card. Shadow RAM is enabled by default and there is no option in the BIOS to disable it.

Edit 2: I tried modding the 44.03 set and it installed and booted up fine but then said it couldn't load the driver. Must not have any code for the NV34 chip in it. hmmm

Did you get the motherboard chipset drivers for 98SE? That is a good idea for any chipset released after 1998. An AGP GART driver is usually installed.

It is also possible that your notebook has ACPI bugs in its BIOS firmware that affect 98SE. You could try installing 98SE with ACPI disabled.

You could also try WinME. It would probably have improvements in support for your hardware.

It is a Toshiba P25-S509 laptop with almost 0 options in the BIOS.

If I can get it working properly, it will make a super sweet retro laptop.

I do have the chipset drivers installed. The chipset is Intel 865PE.

The XP drivers from Toshiba are version 44.82, so I would think a version close to that for 9x/ME should work as long as I mod it with the hardware IDs.

My advice is to find drivers from other laptop brands for this gpu and compare then see what might work then, find it odd that support is so limited.

MWAHAHAHAHAHA... got it mostly working.

Finally tracked down a driver made for the FX go5200/5600 that actually works.

It came from a Gericom Hollywood 8060B-Centrino laptop.

The driver version is 44.20, but at least it works.

This is the only one I have been able to find that was meant for the Geforce FX go cards.

I just had to add the device ID line and the description lines to the .INF.

Now to get it to work with the correct resolution. This driver by default only supports up to 1360x768 and my laptop screen goes to 1440x900. Non-native resolutions on lcd screens look horrid.

Don't Toshiba's drivers work?

I see 3 releases.
http://support.toshiba.com/support/modelHome? … =510751&osId=50

Newer drivers might be tempting but really a FX 5200 isn't useful for anything beyond D3D8 games anyway. 44.x series drivers are great for older games.

Toshiba never released Windows 98 drivers for it.

Edit: Used powerstrip to add 1440x900 to the available resolutions.

cyclone3d wrote:

Toshiba never released Windows 98 drivers for it.

Edit: Used powerstrip to add 1440x900 to the available resolutions.

Oh duh. I knew I was missing something 🤣

Trying to get video with an FX Go 5200 myself on 98 and not having a good time of it. If you would be so kind as to share that driver & exactly how you modified whatever files were necessary that would be super frigging awesome. I've got a Dell Inspiron 8600 here in great shape but I can't get that driver worked out, I have no idea how to edit infs or things like that. I would be very grateful.

Ok, so I downloaded the Dell Inspiron 8600 XP driver package so I could grab the card IDs to put them in the .INF

Turns out that the one of the Dell IDs is the same as one of the Toshiba ones, but the sybsys ID is different.

Because of this I am not able to make a combined driver pack that will work with both Dell and Toshiba.

In any case, this one should work for the Inspiron 8600 FX GO 5200.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bx6yUkEXCMV … U0hsQ3pSX2ptYzA

And this one should work with the Toshiba version of the FX GO 5200.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bx6yUkEXCMV … UlJQbW9KRi1VTFE

I can't seem to get this driver working on my hp zd7340ea (fx go5200)
When i install it, it crashes right away and says that it can't find the pci id in nvuwml.inf.
it just installs as
%NVIDIA_NV34.DEV_0324.1%

I tried modding the driver, but then it crashes right away saying it can't read a register class
System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Display\0000\DEFAULT\Mode
and it installs without a name.
The driver i used to mod was from xp so the inf was different from the 98 one.

These are the strings from the XP drivers 03/12/2004, 5.4.0.5

[NVIDIA.Mfg]
%NVIDIA_NV18.DEV_0186.1% = nv4, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0186&SUBSYS_006A103C
%NVIDIA_NV18.DEV_0186.2% = nv4, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0186&SUBSYS_006A0E11
%NVIDIA_NV31.DEV_031A.1% = nv4, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_031A&SUBSYS_006A103C
%NVIDIA_NV31.DEV_031A.2% = nv4, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_031A&SUBSYS_006A0E11
%NVIDIA_NV34.DEV_0324.1% = nv4_NV34, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0324&SUBSYS_006A103C
%NVIDIA_NV34.DEV_0324.2% = nv4_NV34, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0324&SUBSYS_006A0E11
%NVIDIA_NV36.DEV_0347.1% = nv4_NV36, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0347&SUBSYS_006A103C

; Localizable Strings
NVIDIA = "NVIDIA"
NVIDIA_NV18.DEV_0186.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce4 448 Go"
NVIDIA_NV18.DEV_0186.2 = "NVIDIA GeForce4 448 Go "
NVIDIA_NV31.DEV_031A.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600"
NVIDIA_NV31.DEV_031A.2 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600 "
NVIDIA_NV34.DEV_0324.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200"
NVIDIA_NV34.DEV_0324.2 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 "
NVIDIA_NV36.DEV_0347.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700"
DiskID1 = "NVIDIA Windows 2000/XP Driver Library Installation Disk 1"
DiskID2 = "NVIDIA Windows 2000/XP Driver Library Installation Disk 2"
DiskID3 = "NVIDIA Windows 2000/XP Driver Library Installation Disk 3"
DiskID4 = "NVIDIA Windows 2000/XP Driver Library Installation Disk 4"
DiskID5 = "NVIDIA Windows 2000/XP Driver Library Installation Disk 5"
NVSVC.name = "NVIDIA Display Driver Service"
NVSVC.desc = "Provides system and desktop level support to the NVIDIA display driver"
NVUninstall.desc = "NVIDIA Display Driver"

Help would be appreciated

There are going to be more places in the .inf that need to be modified for your specific card. Sounds like the places that say what files to install and what registry entries to make do not have the entries for your card.

I also tried installing though device manager, i selected my card there, it installed everything, but i got the same error that you had a few posts back.
It just locked loading Windows with a black screen and a few places on the screen having different colored characters on it.

Hi,
Here my short description how I got the Nvidia driver working on a Dell Inspirion 8600.
After installing Win98se there was no section "Display adapters" in the "Device manager".
I installed the driver that cyclone3d offers from his Google Drive (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bx6yUkEXCMV … U0hsQ3pSX2ptYzA) and rebootet. The display was corrupt, interlaced black lines, fringes and flicker, but after a reboot the machine defaulted back to a stable 640 resolution.
At this stage I updated the display driver from the Device manager with version 81.98 that can be found at Phil's Computerlab (https://www.philscomputerlab.com/nvidia-9x-gr … cs-drivers.html).
Now the max. resolution is 1600x1024 with 32bit colours at 60Hz.
The only problem I detected until now is that the 3D screensavers are not working.

So this is the Toshiba Satellite P25-S509 you've talked about in another thread? Glad to hear that FX Go5200 driver finally works.
I'm trying to get one if the sound works good too. The sound chip is Realtek ALC202 and Toshiba claims it is SB compatible in Windows' dos mode. Is it tested okay?

For anyone interested in Geforce FX Go5200 drivers on 98SE here is my share. Hope it can help.
I've just got a Toshiba Portege M200 with Geforce FX Go5200 and this driver with modded INF works without error:
driver: 81.98 from https://www.philscomputerlab.com/nvidia-9x-gr … cs-drivers.html
INF: https://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/8443-v8198-9xme-nv/
the driver doesn't contain Go5200 info, and the Modded INF does.
extract the driver and replace the INF and then install, everything works fine. except that the best display mode is not listed, Toshiba Portege M200 has a 1440x1050 res. I'll try to fix that later.

crazii wrote on 2021-10-24, 06:05:

For anyone interested in Geforce FX Go5200 drivers on 98SE here is my share. Hope it can help. I've just got a Toshiba Portege M […]
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For anyone interested in Geforce FX Go5200 drivers on 98SE here is my share. Hope it can help.
I've just got a Toshiba Portege M200 with Geforce FX Go5200 and this driver with modded INF works without error:
driver: 81.98 from https://www.philscomputerlab.com/nvidia-9x-gr … cs-drivers.html
INF: https://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/8443-v8198-9xme-nv/
the driver doesn't contain Go5200 info, and the Modded INF does.
extract the driver and replace the INF and then install, everything works fine. except that the best display mode is not listed, Toshiba Portege M200 has a 1440x1050 res. I'll try to fix that later.

Thank you for the pointers 😀 81.98 works for me as well on the Portege M200 - I've attached an updated modified .inf file for 81.98 that includes the 1400x1050 and 1440x900 resolutions, which is confirmed to work on my M200 😀
I'll probably try out earlier drivers in a bit, 56.64 might work well.

The sound confused me for a bit since Toshiba / Dynabook never provided support for Win98 with the M200 / Pentium-M era of laptops, but eventually I realised that the sound driver has full support for Windows 98 / Me with a WDM driver that installs with no modifications required.

Thermalwrong wrote on 2024-03-18, 14:58:

Thank you for the pointers :) 81.98 works for me as well on the Portege M200 - I've attached an updated modified .inf file for 8 […]
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crazii wrote on 2021-10-24, 06:05:

For anyone interested in Geforce FX Go5200 drivers on 98SE here is my share. Hope it can help. I've just got a Toshiba Portege M […]
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For anyone interested in Geforce FX Go5200 drivers on 98SE here is my share. Hope it can help.
I've just got a Toshiba Portege M200 with Geforce FX Go5200 and this driver with modded INF works without error:
driver: 81.98 from https://www.philscomputerlab.com/nvidia-9x-gr … cs-drivers.html
INF: https://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/8443-v8198-9xme-nv/
the driver doesn't contain Go5200 info, and the Modded INF does.
extract the driver and replace the INF and then install, everything works fine. except that the best display mode is not listed, Toshiba Portege M200 has a 1440x1050 res. I'll try to fix that later.

Thank you for the pointers 😀 81.98 works for me as well on the Portege M200 - I've attached an updated modified .inf file for 81.98 that includes the 1400x1050 and 1440x900 resolutions, which is confirmed to work on my M200 😀
I'll probably try out earlier drivers in a bit, 56.64 might work well.

The sound confused me for a bit since Toshiba / Dynabook never provided support for Win98 with the M200 / Pentium-M era of laptops, but eventually I realised that the sound driver has full support for Windows 98 / Me with a WDM driver that installs with no modifications required.

Now I've tried out the 53.04 and 56.64 drivers for Windows 98 / ME with the same modifications made to the .inf files. This adds 1400x1050 and 1440x900 modes as well as enabling support for mobile GPU device IDs, taken from the laptopvideo2go 81.98 inf file. Both seem to support the mobile GPUs with PowerMizer control panel settings available.

Since the google drive link with the modified .inf files appears to have become inaccessible, I'm attaching the .inf files for these two drivers to the forum post, hopefully they'll be of some use to someone.