ATI 3D Rage Pro - is it a 3D Rage, a Rage Pro -- what??

[Felecha]

I want to replace the video card in my daughter's HP 9680C (Windows 98), and a friend offered an old unused ATI card for free -- says it's fine, should work. And that I should be able to get the right driver off the net. Reading the info off the card, my best clue is the chip says "3D Rage Pro AGP 2X"

So I went to the ATI site

http://mirror.ati.com/support/driver.html

and the dropdown box there has lots of models to select from. Not one is exactly "3D Rage Pro AGP 2X". I see

3D Rage
3D Rage II/II+
3d Pro turbo
Rage Pro
etc.

Any definitive clue as to which one I want?

 

[stevewm]

That particular video card is based on a Rage Pro chip.

Get the driver for the Rage Pro card

 

[Felecha]

Thank you

 

[Buk]

Been working on a similar problem myself. Instead of starting with the 'find a driver' tab, go to the 'product info' tab. Drill down to the 'Xpert98' card and click download driver from there. I think thats the one. Happy hunting.......................

 

[Felecha]

OK ... anyone else?

 

[vailr]

Try downloading the "Xpert98" driver. There's probably only one downloadable file from ATI,
which will then apply for any of the various Rage Pro cards.
Run the ATI installer, and the correct card should then be automatically identified.
The alternate install method is: in Device Manager, update driver & manually install.
If given a choice during installation, among the many Xpert/Rage Pro versions, select "AGP".
If both the old & new video cards are AGP, then should work O.K.
However, if the previous card was PCI, or "Integrated Graphics" (video chip on motherboard),
then a Bios adjustment may also be required.

 

[Felecha]

Thanks to you, too. I don't know about the old one except that it lists in Device Manager as NVIDIA Vanta