I have such a card, and the latest official driver installer did not recognize it either. I just did an INF mod and added the correct strings, now the installer detects the card.

Kahenraz wrote on 2021-08-20, 03:01:

I tried all kinds of drivers until I finally found two that worked: v4.13.01.8006 from soggi's website.

Please note:

These beta drivers haven't been released by ATI itself, they were available at Sapphire's page back in the day (http://www.sapphiretech.com/downloads/DRIVER/ … /R1289x_673.zip) - it was hard to find them as archive.org doesn't have the URL archived.

I decided to make them available on my page (at https://soggi.org/drivers/ati.htm) because they are hardly visible in today's web and there are many dead links.

kind regards
soggi

Can you confirm whether this is in fact a Sapphire card?

No, it pretty looks like a generic Rage 128 Pro - that were very "generic times" in relation to ATI back then. The only ATIs in standard design of that time I could assign to a specific "manufacturer" (the real manufacturer is the OEM indeed) were the Gainward one's with there ICUVGA-GW**** FCC ID (i.e. Gainward CARDEXpert RAGE IIC, FCC ID : ICUVGA-GW806D).

Nevertheless, the beta drivers from Sapphire are suitable for every card with a ATI Rage 128 (Pro) GPU.

kind regards
soggi

what is the PCI data?
Can you give us the output of lspci -vvv ?
If you don't have a Live Linux, pci.exe from the OS/2 people helps, too.

retardware wrote on 2021-09-06, 06:01:

what is the PCI data?
Can you give us the output of lspci -vvv ?
If you don't have a Live Linux, pci.exe from the OS/2 people helps, too.

Under Windows 9x , you can use PCILIST . https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/pci_list.html 

Yesterday I found a even later low profile Rage 128 Pro dated "2000 ATi" but both pcb and ram modules are early 2002. It looks a generic ATi built cards but the P/N number point to an HP oriented Rage 128 Pro. Ram @ 6ns is the same layout and PN 109-73100-01 with four modules identical to the one at http://vgamuseum.info/index.php/charts/shader … e-128-pro-ultra on first the left but with four modules.

Another difference is that the one I have appears to use SGRAM. I think is a DELL OEM part.

The SGRAM choice is always interesting indeed.

Looks like the R128pro in my G4-Cube. But the Mac-Varinat has an adittional connector to drive the power to the monitor.

I own this very same card.
Remember having faced the same problem trying to install the latest reference driver (WMER1284137192.exe) some months ago.
I had to use and older obscure one (don´t remember which one, have it saved at home).

Will have to try the drivers provided by Soggi. Thank you Soggi for sharing it!

An interesting tool I tried with this card and liked a lot, is "Rage128 tweak_15b4". It has interesting options, vsync related, etc. I remember having had a nice performance boost with it.
Paired with a PIII 600EB it delivered a very pleasant experience in Quake III, for instance.

Con 2 botones wrote on 2021-09-07, 14:02:

Thank you Soggi for sharing it!

You're welcome!

Con 2 botones wrote on 2021-09-07, 14:02:

An interesting tool I tried with this card and liked a lot, is "Rage128 tweak_15b4". It has interesting options, vsync related, etc. I remember having had a nice performance boost with it.

This tool will be part of the next update of my website, together with some other tweaking tools - but I don't know for now when it will be final for upload.

kind regards
soggi

I think I should consider a performance/featureset comparision between a R128pro and my Savage4.

I have one thay says "Powered by Rage 128 Ultra" and the drivers from ATI/AMD don't recognize it.
I know that the Ultra is for OEM, so I'll give these beta drivers a go.

Thanks.

Thanks, found this thread.
I have what looks to be one of the Dell low profile versions. On the back it states ATI Rage 128 Ultra w/ 32mb. The blue VGA connection looks to have the HIS branding on the inside....

I'd given up on at after trying 4 different driver packages, none of which would detect the card. Used the beta drivers from Soggi, card seems to work now. It's in with a PII-400 so I'll see what it can do.

EDIT: Spoke too soon. Drivers installed but is completely unstable and won't run DirectX with any success. Booo.

JayAlien wrote on 2023-02-12, 21:29:

Thanks, found this thread. I have what looks to be one of the Dell low profile versions. On the back it states ATI Rage 128 Ultr […]
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Thanks, found this thread.
I have what looks to be one of the Dell low profile versions. On the back it states ATI Rage 128 Ultra w/ 32mb. The blue VGA connection looks to have the HIS branding on the inside....

I'd given up on at after trying 4 different driver packages, none of which would detect the card. Used the beta drivers from Soggi, card seems to work now. It's in with a PII-400 so I'll see what it can do.

EDIT: Spoke too soon. Drivers installed but is completely unstable and won't run DirectX with any success. Booo.

Try these drivers from Dell. I have several different types of Dell ATI Ultras, including the low-profile versions and these worked:

R0045.EXE is for Windows 2000
R1231.EXE is for Windows XP
ATIM9A06.7z is for Windows 9x (You'll need 7-ZIP or similar utility to extract into ATIM9A0.EXE.)

Thanks for posting these. I used up most of my afternoon yesterday trying to get this card working, but haven't tried the drivers you posted. I decided to not use a 'non standard' card in this build and have ordered a TNT2 card instead.

The Rage 128 is such a weird card. Lots and lots of custom OEM variants and driver anomalies. Thankfully it got better once the Radeon came about.

JayAlien wrote on 2023-02-12, 21:29:

Thanks, found this thread.
I have what looks to be one of the Dell low profile versions. On the back it states ATI Rage 128 Ultra w/ 32mb. The blue VGA connection looks to have the HIS branding on the inside....

I'd given up on at after trying 4 different driver packages, none of which would detect the card. Used the beta drivers from Soggi, card seems to work now. It's in with a PII-400 so I'll see what it can do.

Just from curiosity. Is it this version?
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