Help with 98SE and MVP3/Radeon

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davexnet
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Help with 98SE and MVP3/Radeon

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Hello, my old MVP3 box (Epox MVP3G-M 2MB BIOS) had to undergo
surgery about 6 months ago, as it's 3DFX video card died. I replaced
it with a Radeon VIVO 64MB I had sitting on the shelf.

The machine is dual boot, 98SE and WIN2K. I found ATI Catalyst drivers
4.x on the Internet and installed them successfully (or so I thought)
The Windows 2000 is perfect. The Windows 98SE in comparison has seemed
slightly sluggish, gets hung playing Flash video in the browser, and
the AGP Texture button is Dxdiag is greyed out.

It's been this way, but I decided to revist the problem when I saw the Catalyst 3.x
on this site. Installing this driver hasn't really made any
difference. I looked at the list of loaded drivers in Taskinfo 2000
and Viagart is not loaded, but it exists in \windows\system.
Here's my questions:

Does uninstalling/reinstalling the 4in1 potentially cause a problem ?
In the older releases, they seemed so mickey-mouse, there was no
entry in the add/remove, you had to run the exectuable again to uninstall.
What if you had multiple 4in1's on the PC and ran inadvertently
another version for the uninstall? Is there a proper via "cleaner"?

My Bios is a Beta Bios from 8/2001. I can't remember why I have that one,
nor can I find any notes on it. The recommended BIOS is 12/2000.
If anybody has a copy (ftp.epox.com is down) I'd appreciate it.

The drivers are my main concern. I'd like to get it as clean as
possible and reinstall. I suspect something is wrong in the VIA drivers,
because Viagart.sys never loads.

Thanks for any pointers.
Dave
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RE: Help with 98SE and MVP3/Radeon

Post by Jim »

Somewhere at this site, I once found a link to complete instructions for Driver removal. I also downloaded a copy of it. Have not been able to relocate that for you. Have found The following attached file, a software removal program from ATI, and two different Driver cleaner programs from third parties. If you PM me an email address, I can send those along to you.
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ATI Install.txt
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davexnet
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Post by davexnet »

Thanks Jim, email address forwarded.

Last night, I tried a manual approach, ripped the whole ENUM key out
of HKLM along with a few other places and all instances where I could see
VIA.
After rebooting, no devices attempted to install themselves. Device Manager
was empty. I started the ball rolling by using the add hardware wizard
in control panel.

I'm very close to a "clean" system now. No George Breese latency program,
no 4in1, no Viapfd, no ATI driver, etc,etc.

I'm going to take a registry backup at this point and retry the 4in1 +
ATI driver.
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