Please Help! Having troble with installing Creative GeForce MX in Win98SE and onto a Chaintech 6BTM mobo!

A2KLAU

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My mate has got a Chaintech 6BTM mobo and was using an AGP TnT graphics card. He has just bought a Creative GeForce MX and has installed it. These are the problems and things that have gone wrong with it:

1. It boots into safe mode using the standard VGA driver
2. It boots into safe mode using the reference drivers
3. It sometimes boots into normal mode when using the standard vga driver
4. using the reference drivers, windows tries to load up, after the mode con messages in dos while booting up, the hard drive makes a long whirring sound for about 40 seconds, then stops responding, a couple of times it actually did boot into windows but stayed in the dos screen(????????????????)

He has done all the deletes of the old driver software for the TnT card, and has downloaded all the latest drivers from versions 6-7. he can not get into windows and even if he an it will crash on him or do soemthing else funny.

Please help him! He is very anxious to get his computer up and running again! Here are his system specs:

pII 400-->448
128ram, 8gb, sblive, 19" monitor, creative fps2000 speakers, optical mouse, internet keyboard, 4x cd writer, 32x cdrom, 300 watts supply. Used to be TnT but not hopefully with help it would be GeForce 2MX.

Thanks! All help is welcomed!

SKY.

AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!!!
 

AndyHui

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Why is he using the MODE CON commands? These are redundant and no longer serve any use. Remove the references to them in autoexec.bat. That might help.
 

A2KLAU

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Thanks Andy! And you are the first Hong Kong person that I have met on Anandtech! I am chinese as well and Hong Kong so is my mate who is having problems! Anyway thanks for the post back but all I typed up there was mostly &quot;COPY&quot; and &quot;PASTE&quot; so I am not sure which is right and wrong.

SKY.

More help would e better so he can have more options in solving the problem!

Thanks again!
 

AndyHui

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There are a few others here as well, ahfung, AndyLawCC, Henry Kuo, GTD2000, lurking around.

What hard drive do you have there? A very long whirring sound could mean an impending death for the hard drive Have you considered doing a full reformat and reinstallation of the OS?
 

A2KLAU

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Well he has not told me what hard drive, ut asume it is all working well. He has a hunch that it maybe some of the registry conflicting and so when he gets time he might format his hard drive and start again. His hard drive according to him is fine.

SKY.