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Tyan Tachyon G9600 Pro

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First post, by ElectroSoldier

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Hey guys

I was wondering if anybody can help me find the original driver for the Tyan Tachyon G9600 Pro AGP video card.

I have been trying to use the 9600 Pro driver off Philscomputerlab page but it doesnt seem to like that driver.

Its a relatively recent buy for me, so Im not 100% sure if it is the driver thats the problem, or if its the card, but I would like to try the correct driver to make sure either way.

Ive looked on Tyan site, but I cant sign up for a support account to get access to their drivers, I cant find it with a google search and I cant seem to find it on the archive either.

Reply 1 of 10, by Grem Five

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Looks like it uses the standard ATI driver except for the Graphics monitor part. The driver d/l strings seem to point to that, I would try those ftp.tyan.com links to see if they are still alive but this computer doesnt have a program that works with ftp sites.

General Tachyon FAQs […]
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General Tachyon FAQs

Can I download ATI reference drivers from ATI's website for my Tachyon card? Is that true for all models?

Yes, you can download any of ATI's reference drivers from their website for use on any Tachyon card. You can find ATI's latest drivers at
http://mirror.ati.com/support/driver.html

However, you can also download drivers from Tyan's site at
http://www.tyan.com/support/html/drivers_gc.html

The benefit of loading drivers from ATI's site is that they are updated more often. New drivers may improve card performance.

https://web.archive.org/web/20041013191748/ht … l/g9600pro.html

https://archive.org/details/manualsbase-id-86 … page/1/mode/2up

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Reply 2 of 10, by ElectroSoldier

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All those links are dead now.
The pages were cached but the downloads off them were not 🙁

Thanks for the help anyway though. I think I know now what Im looking for at least.

Reply 3 of 10, by weedeewee

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ftp.tyan.com is still up

and following the archive link Grem Five posted to the driver page
https://web.archive.org/web/20041204185156/ht … drivers_gc.html

ftp://ftp.tyan.com/Graphic/7.91/WinMe_9X_driv … 010027c-efg.exe
ftp://ftp.tyan.com/Graphic/7.91/WinXp_2K_driv … 010027c-efg.exe

Those two are still available, as well as some older ones.

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Reply 4 of 10, by Grem Five

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BTW that quote I put in my post came from here. https://web.archive.org/web/20041010084402/ht … tml/faq_gc.html

weedeewee wrote on 2024-10-05, 11:07:
ftp.tyan.com is still up […]
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ftp.tyan.com is still up

and following the archive link Grem Five posted to the driver page
https://web.archive.org/web/20041204185156/ht … drivers_gc.html

ftp://ftp.tyan.com/Graphic/7.91/WinMe_9X_driv … 010027c-efg.exe
ftp://ftp.tyan.com/Graphic/7.91/WinXp_2K_driv … 010027c-efg.exe

Those two are still available, as well as some older ones.

Thank you for explaining better what I meant by ftp.tyan.com links for Tyan own ftp site, I should have posted the links as you did.

Reply 5 of 10, by weedeewee

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Grem Five wrote on 2024-10-05, 11:47:

BTW that quote I put in my post came from here. https://web.archive.org/web/20041010084402/ht … tml/faq_gc.html

weedeewee wrote on 2024-10-05, 11:07:
ftp.tyan.com is still up […]
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ftp.tyan.com is still up

and following the archive link Grem Five posted to the driver page
https://web.archive.org/web/20041204185156/ht … drivers_gc.html

ftp://ftp.tyan.com/Graphic/7.91/WinMe_9X_driv … 010027c-efg.exe
ftp://ftp.tyan.com/Graphic/7.91/WinXp_2K_driv … 010027c-efg.exe

Those two are still available, as well as some older ones.

Thank you for explaining better what I meant by ftp.tyan.com links for Tyan own ftp site, I should have posted the links as you did.

You're welcome. It's good to not make it too easy.

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Reply 6 of 10, by Grem Five

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I deleted the link from my 1st post about the Tachyon Graphics Monitoring software on that 3rd party site to put in the Tyan ftp links here.

ftp://ftp.tyan.com/Graphic/tgm330/TGM_3_3_2000_xp.zip
ftp://ftp.tyan.com/Graphic/tgm330/TGM_3_3_98_me.zip

(This helped me remember how to do ftp on a modern system)

Reply 7 of 10, by ElectroSoldier

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arr old skool 😀
My goodness its been a while since I fired up an ftp client... My brain was in a slumber, yes your first post makes perfect sense when you actually read it.

Thank you both.

There seems to be nothing special about it at all, they all seem to be a direct lift off the ATi web site back in the day.
Is that correct?

I thought there was some kind of special Tyan build control panel applet to control the fan speed of the card and an overclocking utility etc.

Reply 8 of 10, by Grem Five

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Seems its all there on the Tyan Ftp server (I took time to look around their ftp site myself), thats lucky as most manufacturers sites dont keep that stuff online any more.

Good on Tyan.....

Reply 9 of 10, by weedeewee

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Grem Five wrote on 2024-10-05, 16:14:

Seems its all there on the Tyan Ftp server (I took time to look around their ftp site myself), thats lucky as most manufacturers sites dont keep that stuff online any more.

Good on Tyan.....

I wonder how long it will still remain, since going to the ftp.tyan.com redirects to https://www.mitaccomputing.com/.
Hope someone already has a backup.

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