No Macronix MX86200 Driver for XP?

[FoxHound]

I just recently upgraded to Windows XP SP1 from Windows 98se(Clean Install) and was sad to find no driver for my video card MX86200. Right now Xp is using a generic driver which makes everything so slow and the refresh rate very low. I searched everywhere to find nothing. The only one I could find was at DriverGuide and the driver I downloaded from there was supposed to work with XP but my OS didn't recognize it. I also checked with the official manufacturer website, they don't even offer driver downloads anymore. Why can't I seem to get a right driver for it?

Again the Video Card is Macronix MX86200

[Mijzelf]

http://www.macronix.com/QuickPlace/hq/Page...C/?OpenDocument

[FoxHound]

Wow, how did you find this site, I've been looking everywhere, thank you!

[Mijzelf]

Advanced googling. Actually I found this by googling "drivers site:macronix.com"

[FoxHound]

Nope, still Windows XP still refuses to recognize the Drivers. What am I doing wrong?

[Mijzelf]

Oh, I'm sorry that I was not more clear. I pointed to the drivers to show that Macronix doesn't have XP drivers for that card, so you don't have to spend time searching for it.

So what can you do?

That card is not that popular that you can expect 3th party drivers for it. (Actually, I never heard of tat card before).

You can try to install the NT4 drivers. Unzip the package, goto Device Manager, find the card, rightclick, choose properties, choose 'update driver', go through several wizard screens, choose 'Don't search. I will choose the driver to install.', Uncheck 'Show compatible hardware', choose Have Disk, and point to 'zipcontents'\WINNT40.

Cross your fingers.

Where did your Win98SE drivers come from? Sometimes a 98SE driver works in W2000, so maybe it will work in XP as well. If you can isolate the .sys, .dll and .inf file, you can try to install this driver the same way. (This will only work for W98SE drivers, not for W95 drivers.

A third way: In Device Manager, Properties of the card, tab Details, you can find a Vendor and Device ID. This are 2 4 digit hexadecimal codes, and you can find it in a form like VEN_1234&DEV_5678. Google for this '1234 5678', maybe it will lead you to a driver of another card, from another vendor, using the same chip, and maybe it will work.

[FoxHound]

Well I tried your suggestion but did not work. I got the Windows 98 Driver from Driver Guide.com. That driver works superbly with my Windows 9SE. I guess I have no choice but to revert back Windows 98. Unless there is a way to alter the .inf file to fool XP into thinking its the right driver, but I have no idea how to program anything let alone alter the file.