Abit KT7A, WinME, and Radeon

[zwind]

I just build a KT7A with TB 750. ATI Radeon 32 DDR. 256 crucial RAM. IBM 30G hard-drive.

I installed WinME as the OS. then I followed the instruction on the MB manual to install the VIA 4.26 driver. I expected the screen shall be like win98. however, The screens were actually win2K. after installation, i then installed the ATI driver, however, the driver did not work. Actually, right after i installed the ATI driver then rebooted the machine, there was blue screen said "System halt", no other message. Rebooted again, no blue screen. then went into windows, prompted out that the video driver was not working.

Can anyone tell me whether this is ME's problem, the VIA's problem or ATI's problem.

note: All drivers i installed were come with the products, not the latest download. I try to find the newest VIA driver, but it is 4.25 which i think is lower than i get (4.26).

 

[sad]

Hi zwind, maybe I can help you out. Here's the steps I used to get my system stable.

First download all relevant drivers
DirectX 8, VIA 4.28beta, andRadeon v.4.13.7072 beta drivers

After you have all that install in this order:

1.Uninstall all ati software reboot and make sure you are back in standard vga.
2.Reboot Computer and go into bios. Go into the advanced chipset section and make sure fast write supported is Disabled and your AGP Driving Control to 68.
2.Install Via 4in1 then reboot
2.Install Direct X then reboot
3.Install Radeon Drivers then reboot
4.Once in windows, go to startmenu>run>msconfig>startup and uncheck atipolab and atipta

That should do it.

Oh, you may also want to flash your motherboard's bios with the latest version wzb03