Problem with Geforce2MX

[Saiden]

I am having problems with installing my Geforce2

Win98
Geforce2 MX400 64MB AGP
Celeron 400
Chipset 440ZX/66
Asus P2B

I removed all others vid cards except onboard=disabled driver's deleted. install G2 load up under standard vga I get msg

EMM386 not installed - unable to set page frame base address
installing EMM386 - EMS not available
some mem info comes up basically says dos is present in UMA and zero space is available
EMM386 active

comp moves on to loading windows hangs after a few then reboots the system (will continously loop if left to do so)


so I load safe mode and try this: nothing changed anything

Disabled autoexec.bat and config.sys

tried to rem EMM386 in config.sys

tried adding RAM to EMM386 to enable EMS

tried adding NOEMS to EMM386 to disable EMS from being used at all

removed vshield from loading into dos via autoexec.bat to free up space in EMS

moved DOS=high,umb below EMM386 in hopes EMM would load the page frame for the G2 first nada

tried removing the dos=high,umb so dos would no longer load into high memory but from what I understand it doesnt load into high untill after its finished loading everything else anyways
umb = dos controls my upper mem blocks assignments
high loads dos into HMA after its done loading? I think?

does the G2MX agp require an irc ?
my onboard agp does not have one and runs good
im going to look into assigning freeing up an irc tommarow and assigning it to the G2 while in safe mode in hopes that it will load .........the irc it assigned itself was 00 teh irc used by my system timer if that's a problem...


any feedback as to what I should do next if that doesnt work would be greatly appreciated <==== has been working on this for the last few days looking up info on wtf EMM386 is and why its bugging me


how do I assign page frames ? in system\device manager ????
and how big do the frames I assing have to be ?
how do I reserve them for the card ?

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

Dude. Your post seems to have a lot of inaccurate information which leads me to believe that you're not too familiar with the hardare you have.

First off, give us a more detailed rundown of what you did. What was the old video card? You said you [/i]&quot;...removed all others vid cards except onboard=disabled driver's deleted&quot;[/i] Does this mean that you removed the hardware only, uninstalled the drivers, or both? According to the manual the P2B doesn't have onboard video, so I'm confused as to how you disabled it. It appears that the extended memory manager was somehow deleted. Did you remove some hardware profiles in the Device Manager when you did the &quot;driver's deleted&quot; step? Did you delete any files from the c:\windows directory or anywhere else? If I were you, I would write down what you did and undo it in reverse. Your config.sys and autoexec.bat aren't used in Win98 like they were in DOS. They are mainly used to load legacy DOS drivers for programs that still try to use a DOS based OS. Disabling them shouldn't be necessary. Do you have a boot disk that you can get the system up and running on? It may be that the sys.ini or msdos.sys files have been erased or damaged. It's been a long time since I troubleshot Win98, but you might want to look at this for help. When you say IRC, I'm reading that as IRQ (interrupt request), and no, you shouldn't have to worry about that. Win98 should assign the IRQ's and DMA's without conflict. Notice that I emphasize should...