First post, by Heatvent
I have been using a Dell Dimension 4600 P4 Socket 478 PC as a Win 98SE computer. I came across a GeForce 6800XT AGP video card and have been trying to get to work. I have tried 3 different drivers that say they support the 6800 XT ... official Nvidia 81.85 and 81.98 and the unofficial tweaked 82.69 drivers. All 3 give an error that no Nvidia chips were found. If I install the generic VGA driver and then manually install the drivers, for both the .85 and .98 drivers I have to force it to use the 6800 XT driver and Win98 complains that the driver isn't intended for my hardware. When I reboot I get the BSOD. For the unofficial drivers, it detects a 6800 GS/XT and reboots fine into 16 color 640x480 mode. However, if I change either the color settings or the resolution, upon reboot WIN98 complains that the settings are incorrect and slowly freezes. Upon reboot, I am back at the BSOD.
Not sure if anyone has gotten these cards to work. I realize they are probably somewhat unstable at best. I ask just because the drivers do say they support the GPU and would like to get it working if I can. However, I have done probably 50 combinations and reboots of trying to install and I am coming to the end of trial and error finding a winning combination.
BTW, I would go the XP route but I have a Core Duo machine with a 550 Ti already so I am looking just to upgrade the Win 98 machine.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!