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MSI RX9250 T128 Drivers for Windows 98se

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First post, by Roman78

Posted on 2015-07-11, 10:02

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I'm just building a Win98 Computer from scratch. Using an Tualatin PIII CPU. Everything is working fine.

Now I tested some Videocards, like an old TNT2, Matrox G450 and a card is found in an defective Pentium 4, the MSI RX9250-T128, (guessing right, it's an Radeon 9250 whit 128 meg of ram) MSI does not have drivers online (but they existed as I found out). So I tried a default ATI driver for W98. Looks fine, but when I start 3DMark 2001 it's crashing.

So does someone has the driver for this card.....?

Reply 1 of 4, by Evert

Posted on 2015-07-11, 15:59

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Well, I'd suggest trying an older version like the Catalyst 3.x-4.x series. ATi cards are the Alfa Romeos of computer hardware: beautiful and brilliant when they work, but horrible when they don't.

Reply 2 of 4, by Roman78

Posted on 2015-07-11, 18:54

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I tried the 6.2 driver now on another Mainboard whit same OS and there it's working. So I think the other mainboard had some problems whit the card, maybe something whit AGP2x and 4x.

The card makes 3979 3DMark 2001 points on a Celeron 1.1 Tualatin. Only on this machine my PIII 1.4 won't work, but thats another problem.

Reply 3 of 4, by GeorgeMan

Posted on 2015-07-11, 19:32

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Evert wrote:
Well, I'd suggest trying an older version like the Catalyst 3.x-4.x series. ATi cards are the Alfa Romeos of computer hardware: beautiful and brilliant when they work, but horrible when they don't.

That may be true for 20-year-old Alfas, but not anymore.
So is for AMD graphics. 😉

Reply 4 of 4, by Evert

Posted on 2015-07-11, 20:15

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GeorgeMan wrote:
Evert wrote:
Well, I'd suggest trying an older version like the Catalyst 3.x-4.x series. ATi cards are the Alfa Romeos of computer hardware: beautiful and brilliant when they work, but horrible when they don't.

That may be true for 20-year-old Alfas, but not anymore.
So is for AMD graphics. 😉

Haha, I meant no offence, I'm actually a big fan of Alfa Romeo. Like Alfa, ATi/AMD has this reputation of having unreliable or bad drivers even though that's not always true.

Roman78 wrote:
I tried the 6.2 driver now on another Mainboard whit same OS and there it's working. So I think the other mainboard had some problems whit the card, maybe something whit AGP2x and 4x.

The card makes 3979 3DMark 2001 points on a Celeron 1.1 Tualatin. Only on this machine my PIII 1.4 won't work, but thats another problem.

Just play around with chipset and graphics driver versions. If there's one thing I've learned from working with these old systems it's that every system has its quirks and/or reliability problems. It takes a while, but it's very rewarding.

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