Tiger MP and Windown 98

[dhemberg]

Has anyone had luck dealing with a Tyan Tiger MP and WIndows 98? I can get W98 installed fine, but it freaks out when I try to install my video card drivers (Asus Geforce GTS 64 MB). I know Tyan doesn't really claim to support W98 on this board, but I'd like to get it on there nontheless. I downloaded the newest Detonators from nVidia, but they don't seem to help the problem. When windows tries to load up when using the drivers, the screen just goes black and I lose the video signal totally, adn the computer seems to lock up. It boots into safe mode fine, but I notice that in addition to the vide card drivers no being loaded, I also see this stuff for "PCI bridge" and "AGP to PCI" something that isn't being loaded either in the device manager--I think this is in fact what's causing the problem, not the video card itself (which is supported by W98). Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[bozo1]

Are you aware that Win98 doesn't support dual processors?

 

[dhemberg]

Yeah, I knew that. I thought that WIndows would basically just mask out the other one, or fail to see it (kind of like an ntfs drive or something). I also am aware that it gets quirky with ram above 512 or something (I have a gig). But by "quirky" I assumed sporadic crashing or wierd memory exceptions thrown, not really a video card failure. DO you have experience with this at all? Do you know how W98 handles dual procs? Or should I just hold out for XP (although I really don't want to spend any more money on this thing)...?

 

[bozo1]

98 will just ignore the 2nd processor.

Sounds like you don't have the proper AMD drivers installed for Win98 - AGP driver especially. Don't know if Tyan has released any Win9x drivers, tho.

Anyone?

 

[dhemberg]

I notice Tyan does indeed have AGP drivers for the 762 and 766 chipset. The Tiger MP spec says that it has a "762 north brige" and a "766 South bridge". What does this mean? Think I should download both of these drivers and try to install them? What are PCI bridges anyway? I don't know if these things are for W98 anyway--I'll try emailing Tyan about it, but (in the ienterest of a bit speedier of a response) has anyone had any experience with this?

Btw, thanks bozo1.

 

[dhemberg]

Tried the tyan drivers--no good. Anyone?

 

[Diogenes2]

Did you get a driver disk with your MOBO? It should tell you if there is 98 support or not.. Most likely this board is not going to get past safe mode in 98 without correct drivers..

quote:
"Do you know how W98 handles dual procs? Or should I just hold out for XP (although I really don't want to spend any more money on
this thing)...? "


You spent maybe `$500 or more on the basics of a dual system (probably the hottest one around)without concern (still don't seem to be) that you do not have an operating system that utilizes 2 CPU's?


Aw, c'mon.. Is this candid camera?😉

 

[dhemberg]

quote:
You spent maybe `$500 or more on the basics of a dual system (probably the hottest one around)without concern (still don't seem to be) that you do not have an operating system that utilizes 2 CPU's?

No, I mentioned that I'm also running W2K as well, and will eventually put Linux on this thing. THe primary function of it is to run Maya and MAX. But for some of my software that freaks out with NT filesystems and that won't install, I wanted to play it "safe" with 98. So yes, I do have an OS that supports the dual procs, but I also know that 98 SHOULD (despite being not supported) deal with this.

I have the cd that came with my mobo, and it lists nothing for windows 98. The only drivers are for windows 2000 (but if I get good and frustrated enough, I might just try them anyway and see what happens) 🙂

W98 also worked fine before I put on the video card drivers (aside from the fact that I couldn't get anything more than 640x480 with 16 colors).