Diamond Stealth III S540 Driver Problem Under win98se and win98fe

[GD695372]

When I install the drivers for the card and reboot, the system locks up at the logon screen. I've tried 3 different revisions of the drivers, including the current one and the out-of-box one. I've tried different versions of directx, as well as win98se and win98fe. At this point I have no idea why the system locks up on bootup when i load the S540 drivers. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

P.S.: I've repartitioned and reformatted, and have produced the same results from a clean win98se install.

 

[TravisBickle]

try booting up with 16 colors. what version you using, agp or pci? do you have another card installed? try a video bios update

 

[GD695372]

It's the only video card installed. I dunno how to do a video bios update(and the system was actually running perfectly before w/ the card and drivers(out-of-box) until win98se messed up). I got it to boot up in 16 color mode before w/ some phreak thing where the mouse was disabled. It's an agp card, but the drivers disk says PCI on it!

 

[seniorcitizen]

Did you uninstall the driver that you wanted to replace. I am using S540Win9x82021.exe ,I have the AGP card it will use IRQ11. Leave PCI slot #1 open. Anything in PCI slot1 will share IRQ11. Make sure it is plugged in all the way, no copper should show. I am using Directx 8.0. Make sure Directx is installed BEFORE you vidio driver.

 

[GD695372]

Directx was installed first(with windows, 7.0 i think). I don't think I can leave pci slot #1 open. I always check to make sure everything is plugged in all the way. Not only did Brite plug it in all the way, they hot-glued it in place.

 

[GD695372]

Trying it without the ethernet card in pci slot #1.

 

[GD695372]

same problem.

 

[seniorcitizen]

Whose Brite? Hot glued what?

 

[GD695372]

Brite computers is the OEM that put the comp together. They hot-glue everything soo they can tell if it's tampered with.

I think they also do it to make sure that things don't jingle out of place.