ardesjo

So I've googled some and understand that people have some problems with ATI and Win XP.
I just moved to my dad, brought my harddrive and put it in a computer he had for me.
I'm playing this MMORPG game and need the graphic card to work.
I went to ATI's homepage, downloaded the drivers for Rage 128 Pro for WinXP but when I run it it gives me a "The display driver is not compatible with the display adapter(s) installed in your system."

Can anyone help me?

-Stephanie

dai

it sounds like you may have a graphics chip and have d/loaded the drivers for a graphics card

ardesjo

Hmm, I don't know. I checked the card and it says Rage 128.
I checked ATI's drivers and the only thing they have under "Motherboards with ATI Graphics" is "Catalyst 6.2 Windows XP - Motherboard/IGP Drivers".
I'm totally lost.

dai

pull the side cover off the computer and check if the video plug goes into a card in a slot or a connection to the m/board
if it goes to a connection on the m/board look for the drivers on your m/b setup disk,or in the driver section of the m/b manufacturers site

ardesjo

It goes into a brown slot on the motherboard. It's above the white ones that take all the other cards like network cards etc.

dai

right you have a card,are these the drivers that you d/loaded
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/...e&folderID=293
it will not let me link diectly to the driver
Windows XP Display Driver build 6.13.3279

ardesjo

Yes, and this is what I get:

dai

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...5-30-1-b02.exe
try this one you ill have to click through the links to find it

ardesjo

Just sends me to http://www.ati.com/online/403/leech.asp, says it's an unauthorized downlaod and gives me a link back to the front page.
If I try to right-click and save target as from your link it saves a leech.html :(

dai

i think it is because you are not registered as a customer
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/...e&folderID=293
click on the link this takes you to
then on rage
then on more in item 2
then on the bottom link
then on the file name

ardesjo

I found that file on my desktop, means I've tried it too with the same result.
:(

dai

double check in the device manager what it lists as the card.if you have posted the correct one
check to see if the m/b also has an onboard graphics chip,if it has it needs to be disabled to run the card

ardesjo

Same thing :(

ardesjo

And the motherboard is a ASUS A7V8X-X how can I see if there's a graphic card on it?

dai

is your bios version 1009 or later as they added some extra support for ati cards
in the device manager uninstall the card
reboot tapping f8 and choose vga mode
when windows finishes rebooting
disable a/virus
install the drivers again
reboot the computer and see if you receive the same error message
uncle macro is the expert on ati but he is not online at the moment,i will pm him to have a look as he will be sure to know what is wrong
your m/b supports a 1.5v card,i am wondering if that has something to do with it

ardesjo

So I chose to uninstall via the Device Manager. It asked me to restart.
I tried to enter Safe Mode but here we have a second phenomenon. It won't start in Safe Mode, hehe. It stops at Mup.sys which I heard can be kinda comon problem. Anyhow, I rebooted again, pressed F8 and chose VGA Enabled or something like that, it looked like 640x480 or so. I tried to install the drivers, same error.

:(

I really appreciate your help btw :)
<3
-Stephanie

dai

http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/w...rum/97354.html

ardesjo

Do I have to solve that in order to get the graphic card to work?
Seems so complicated

UncleMacro

First of all: I wouldn't pay any attention to MUP.SYS. MUP.SYS gets blamed for lots of things because it just happens to be the last line displayed before Windows has any number of different problems. The fact that it just displayed MUP.SYS doesn't tell you anything useful. It just tells you that "something's wrong".

Do you mean that you had Windows XP installed on that hard drive in another computer and then you installed it in your dad's computer and booted it? Or are you running the hard disk as a secondary drive and still booting the copy of Windows XP which was already on your dad's computer. You can cause serious problems if you take Windows installed on one computer and try to boot it in another computer. Usually it just crashes during the boot but sometimes it will more or less work but have various hard-to-identify problems. If that's what you did then you have to reinstall Windows to fix it. There's a way to reinstall Windows but still leave your programs intact which is explained here. It's complicated but the other alternative is installing Windows from scratch and wiping out all your programs.

What BIOS version does your motherboard have? This page explains how to check it. Like dai said, there may be a BIOS update for your motherboard which fixes the problem. You need to check your BIOS version to see if you already have the update.

The Device Manager screenshot you included makes it look like Windows has correctly installed a default driver for your video card. That kind of driver is out of date but normally works fine. A Rage 128 is a very old card so the default driver in Windows XP should be about as capable as anything you can download from ATI. Exactly what problem is your MMORPG complaining about? What's the exact error message?

ardesjo

Ok, thanks. I guess I'll partition it and reinstall it. *sigh*
Thanks :)