I've got a Cyrix 686 build that I picked up for next to nothing- Its got an ATI Rage 128 card, however whenever I install drivers when it reboots it gives me a black screen and a arrow with the loading icon next to it.
This is in Win98 SE- The same happens in 95.
Do you know exactly what card you have? There are a number of Rage 128 flavors, and I remember reading that they don't share drivers.
No I don't know.
Don't worry they do share drivers.
The 6x86 has some incompatibilities, maybe the problem is the CPU itself ? You should try to boot with an AMD or intel CPU and look if it changes anything
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Apologies I made a mistake in the title- Its an MII-333 not a 6x86.
Also I have no mobos new enough to test the ATI card. I got 1 from '92 and one from '95.
What's the chipset on your mobo? Did you install the chipset/AGP driver before installing ATI driver?
I think that I've read that the 6x86 and the MII are using the same core, just that the MII has MMX, so this could still be the reason of your problems
otherwize, yeah, what's your motherboard ?
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I dont know the mobo model- Its got bog standard ALI chips in there from '98 but i doubt that will help. Do you think Windows ME could solve these because it might have drivers for the Rage 128 prepackaged. Also the sound card works fine.
Does your mobo have AGP slot? If it does then it has Aladdin V chipset, whose driver can be downloaded here.
Yes it does!
Google the BIOS POST code - helped me identify a few of my generic socket 3/5/7 boards.
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