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First post, by rick12373

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I have this card in my Pentium 2 300Mhz. I mostly run DOS on this machine, but I also have Windows 98 SE installed. The card performs well in DOS bust in 98 it keeps refreshing the resolution (like when you actually change the resolution purposely). It will do it sometimes when clicking on the start menu or when opening a window etc. It is a fresh Windows 98 installation with Direct X 8.1. I got the driver for the card from the legacy section on the Nvidia website. The operating system is also unstable and will sometimes freeze or give me blue screens. I didn't get this behavior until I installed this driver. Is there a different driver I should be using? I don't think the card is faulty because I have two of these cards and they both do the exact same thing. I don't see any conflicts in device manager.

If I can't get this card to behave I have a Matrox G2+/SDA/8BN/20 (anybody know what Matrox card this actually is). Would this be a good card for this system?

486 DX4-100 (overdrive)
16MB 72-pin SIMM RAM (2x8MB)
1MB Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB video card
SB 16 Value CT2770
AOpen VI15G Socket 3 Motherboard
HDD/FDD VLB controller card

Reply 1 of 2, by RogueTrip2012

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Have you tried the nvidia 71.84's? I have them listed at supporting TNT2 - GF2MX.

That Matrox card is a G200 8MB, unless you have the extra memory stick in it then it should be 16mb. Supposed to be a pretty decent card TNT1 performance AFAIR.

> W98SE . P3 1.4S . 512MB . Q.FX3K . SB Live! . 64GB SSD
>Win XP . AMD 960T . 8GB . Q.K2200. SB X-Fi . 512GB SSD . 2TB HDD
> Win XI . i7 12700k . 96GB . RTX4070TI . 512GB NVME

Reply 2 of 2, by rick12373

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Yeah I figured out what card that Matrox was. I used driver cleaner to remove the Nvidia drivers and then installed the Matrox. Now everything is working well! It's the 8mb Matrox.

486 DX4-100 (overdrive)
16MB 72-pin SIMM RAM (2x8MB)
1MB Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB video card
SB 16 Value CT2770
AOpen VI15G Socket 3 Motherboard
HDD/FDD VLB controller card