The secret to getting win2k to work with a radeon etc...

[hans007]

I had to reformat twice after installing 4.129 via 4 in 1 in win2k, because it killed my atapi loader. Then i tried with 4.128 from VIA's own site and it killed the vagp loader at the start. So that last time i said screw VIA . I didnt load the VIA apg, inf, usb, ide, drivers at all. And i didnt install microsoft's supposed agp hotfix. All I installed was win2k sp1 and the radeon was running the new supported 3102 driver. The sblive was running the 3.0 liveware driver, but without liveware installed since i hate liveware. Everything else was on win2k's included drivers. And what do you know? I've got a radeon working, perfectly at 4x agp in counterstrike (only game i've played), a 2nd monitor card is working perfectly(permedia 2v pci) and an sb live and a network card. Every slot is full, and my computer is rock stable.


So the lesson learned here is...

JUST SAY NO to VIA patches!

 

[rbV5]

Isn't that the way it goes though, my AIW and Via board with the Via patches and ACPI Hal and the MS hotfixes work great, never had a blue screen on this rig, not to say that it hasn't taken a fair amount of tweaking and input from all the fine folks here to make everything play nice. Glad to see you found the trick with your setup!

 

[rmblam]

Gotta be the mobo and/or bios?

I recently did a fresh WIn2k install (just got it, love it.) with the 4.29's and I have had no problems either. I even upgraded from the 4.29beta to the final on my test drive. Everything worked so well I zapped Windows ME and loaded it onto my RAID array.

You must one of the unlucky ones we keep hearing about...