ATI Rage Fury Maxx 64MB does not support Windows 2000 (any workarounds?)

[auyong]

Hi,

I just upgraded my O/S to Windows 2k Professional but just found out that my existing vid card does not support Win 2k. Damn ATI, they have lost me as a customer! Are there any workarounds to this problem? If there is please let me know and it'll save me $165 (I'm currently looking at the GF3 Ti 200 to replace my POS ATI Rage Fury Maxx card). I guess ATI named their cards correctly, you get RAGE and FURY fury if you use their cards!

 

[Rand]

The Maxx series was never capable of operating stabily under the NT core. ATi announced loooong ago that there was never going to be NT support for the Rage Fury. For a short time after that they offered a rebate on an ATi Radeon card if you traded in your Rage Fury Maxx, but I doubt that still valid anymore.... or at least you won't get any better deal then you would in ATi's regular trade in program for any card.

Anyway, there were a few hacks to disable the second Rage128 core on the MAXX and effectively turn it into a regular Rage 128 Pro board, and then you could run under NT, I'm not sure where you could find such a hack anymore though.

 

[Gunslinger08]

http://driver.ati.com/drivers/w2k_r128_5_13_01_3279.exe

Those are the drivers you need.. you also have to have directx 8 or higher.. so check out microsoft.com for that, if you don't have it already.

Maybe these won't work though.. says they work for all Rage Fury boards, but yours is a Maxx.. worth a shot.

Josh

 

[auyong]

Thanks for the info! I'll give it a try.

 

[rbV5]

Check this Workaround for usng your card in Win2k. I found the win2k-640cd19.exe file here, the links to ATI showing the jumpers worked for me, so you should be set.

Good luck.

 

[auyong]

Thank you Thank you! You guys just saved me $165!!!! It worked!! Thanks for all your help!

 

[rbV5]

hey cool it worked!, but its not like you would have wasted the $165 though

 

[auyong]

yea it worked...thanks for the workaround. I am kinda cash strapped now so I will wait for my next upgrade of a video card. I just bought a geforce mx400 for the new system that I built (won the amd 1800 xp at the sf event), so I don't want to upgrade so fast. Maybe I'll wait half a year and I can buy the geforce3!

 

[AA0]

ATI is working on MAXX technology still, but want to increase the performance, and of course get the drivers under XP and 2k working.
Under linux you can just install the rage128pro drivers, and it will work without disabling the chip.