bob_smith Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 (edited) I have a ASUS A8AE-LE mobo supposedly from some HP/Compaq machine, which has an RS482/SB450 chipset. The mobo contains a Xpress 200 graphics chip which I am temporarily on due to the failure of my Radeon X800. Works great in Vista and XP but on 98SE I am having issues. The Catalyst 6.2 drivers claim to support it but refuse to work no matter what. XP identifies it as "Radeon Xpress 200 Series" and when installing it as that in 98SE I see the Windows 98 logo on boot and then it immediately stops outputting video signals. I should try and install Catalyst 6.2 on XP to see if its the issue, but I'm not exactly sure what's going on. Edited April 17, 2023 by bob_smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omores Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 Try to limit the amount of shared memory to minimum. IIRC X200M max share is 256MB so it should be fine in Windows 98. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_smith Posted April 11, 2023 Author Share Posted April 11, 2023 I didn't think memory would be an issue (I have 2 sticks of 512MB DDR-400 which show up in 98 at around 900MBs so maybe). Can I limit it's memory in the BIOS? It's also useful to add that Catalyst 6.2 claims it finds no supported device which prevents installation, but Catalyst 10 on XP installs and works fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omores Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 Yes, you can limit the memory. It looks like now you are using 128MB, which should be totally fine with Windows 98. But if the Catalyst doesn't find the card - and no drivers are installed - what causes the black screen? Did you installed them manually? Can you post a screen capture with all devices present in Device Manager? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_smith Posted April 11, 2023 Author Share Posted April 11, 2023 3 hours ago, Omores said: But if the Catalyst doesn't find the card - and no drivers are installed - what causes the black screen? Did you installed them manually? Yeah, I installed the INF files directly, Windows extracted all the neccesary DLLs to the system folder as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damnation Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 Whats the Device ID of your Xpress 200 graphics chip? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_smith Posted April 16, 2023 Author Share Posted April 16, 2023 On 4/12/2023 at 4:32 PM, Damnation said: Whats the Device ID of your Xpress 200 graphics chip? Any way to check this on 98SE or will the device ID it gives me in XP be fine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damnation Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 @bob_smith It is admittedly not as easy to get a DeviceID in 98SE as it is in XP. It's easiest just get the DeviceID when booted into XP, it won't have changed between the 2 OS's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pangoomis Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 You can use "hwinfo /ui" on 98SE FWIW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_smith Posted April 16, 2023 Author Share Posted April 16, 2023 Device Instance ID : PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5954&SUBSYS_2A26103C&REV_00\4&1C9EB71F&0&2808 Screenshot of the device in Windows XP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_smith Posted April 17, 2023 Author Share Posted April 17, 2023 Funnily enough, got the X800 GTO PCI-E card and 98SE is still doing the exact same thing now, is this some sort of a chipset issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_smith Posted April 18, 2023 Author Share Posted April 18, 2023 Think I found something contributing to this issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damnation Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 @bob_smith Yeah, that would have something to do with the issue. Not sure about this one though, try disabling IRQ steering? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jumper Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 Under IRQ Steering, first deselect Get IRQ table using ACPI BIOS. What does the IRQ Routing Status say? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pangoomis Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 Catalyst 6.2 for 98SE/ME does have support for PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5954 Try reinstalling 98SE with "setup /p i" switch to disable ACPI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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