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virge GX2 card causeing errors, conflicting with sound card

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First post, by soviet conscript

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I've been tweaking my Win95 machine (again) and got the last piece today. a virge 4mb GX2 card. I was formerly using an ati rage pro turbo 4mb (i know the ati is debately a better card but I'm going for something specific with the gx2)

anyways i uninstall the ati and install the gx2 and...no sound. looking at the system device menu my awe 64 gold is having a conflict with the sb16 compatible drivers or whatever its referred to. also I now get a msgser32 error whenever i shutdown, restart or start a game.

this happens regardless of what drivers I use for the virge, even if I use generic VGA adaptor drivers. I stick the ati back in and its stable as a rock.

I thought maybe it had to due with the agp bus...maybe the ati is faster and i should adjust it but I have no such option in bios. Id really like to use the gx2 but I have no idea why all the issues.

Reply 1 of 5, by Nahkri

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Have u tried a clean windows install with the virge mounted,also since u using windows 95 have u installed the usb update to enable agp support?

Reply 2 of 5, by soviet conscript

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Nahkri wrote:

Have u tried a clean windows install with the virge mounted,also since u using windows 95 have u installed the usb update to enable agp support?

I haven't tried a complete reinstall yet. been trying to avoid that but I may have to. USB update has been installed.

it seems that for some reason when I replace the rage with the virge I suddenly get all kind of resource conflicts like IRQ's and stuff suddenly get shifted around. does that make any sence?

for instance after looking at device manager with the rage installed I get no conflicts, specificly with the awe64 but on installing the virge suddenly the awe64 is conflicting with my mpeg decoder card. even if i disable it and restart.

I never had issues with switching video cards. why would the virge use different resources or memory locations then the ati?

Reply 3 of 5, by vetz

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I've had the same kind of problem when using a Creative 3D Blaster PCI on VIA MVP3 boards. The IRQ to the 3D Blaster refused to be changed and caused issues with the IDE controller at IRQ 14. Only solution was to unplug almost everything and force the card to take another free IRQ.

The strange thing is that this only happened on the MVP3 board. On other Socket 7/440BX boards the card found an available IRQ that didn't conflict with anything.

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Reply 4 of 5, by soviet conscript

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motherboard i'm using is an Intel E139761 aka SE440BX

Reply 5 of 5, by soviet conscript

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tried completly reinstalling windows and I have the same issue. now I'm trying to use a matrox g200 as my video card but same issues

*nm got it*

my mpeg card AND something called IRQ pci steering holder were using the same IRQ. I managed to find them unused irq's

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