voodoo 5 turned into voodoo 4.... help!

[solpadeine]

OK, I just upgraded to an abit kt7/thunderbird 900/voodoo 5
system. Everything was great until I downloaded the drivers
for my iiyama vision master pro 510 monitor. Now in 3dfx
tools current display adapter info says my card has
only 1 graphics chip and I can only set for 2 x anti aliasing. And my frame rates have dropped considerably in games ... Im using the 1.03.00 drivers and directX 7.0a.
Windows had been reporting refresh errors even before this
new incident. I've tried removing 3dfx tools and also
setting display to standard vga before removing the graphics card from hardware profile, rebooting and then reloading the 1.03.00 drivers but to no avail. Before I reformat the hard drive (the easy way out for a computer dunce like me )
does anyone have any alternative advice??
Thanks in advance for any help.

Solpadeine

 

[Deeko]

Try installing different drivers....there are some new via drivers out there that are supposed to help performance if you have a via chipset, and it may fix the problem too...this is the only link I could find, I think you may need to sign up to download them. http://www.freedrive.com/ASP/PostFolderShortcut.asp?fsc=14349829 sorry if this doesn't help

 

[solpadeine]

I tried Via 4.24 and 4.25 all in ones. I also loaded up the 1.01 V5 drivers. But no joy...
Thanks anyways

 

[RoboTECH]

eeps

sounds like you gotta start from scratch

uninstall your graphics subsystem, and reinstall

set your system up as a PCI generic adapter

install the 4-in-1's
install the 5500 1.03 drivers
install monitor drivers

then see if that works

u sure you're using the proper monitor drivers?

 

[Deeko]

When I said Via, I meant there are drivers optimized for Via chipsets....never tried them though, cause I have a 750...you could unzip the 1.03's, look at what files there are, and delete those files from windows, then reinstalling it. That may help you.

 

[Hawk]

Uninstall your monitor drivers and your video card drivers, and reinstall your video card drivers. If it detects as a voodoo 4 again, force it to be a voodoo 5 during driver install, and hopefully that works. If not, then reinstall windows!!! =)

 

[solpadeine]

Thanks guys. I tried your suggestions but nothing works! Something is obviously seriously srewed up, as D3D isnt working at all. I had this card for 3 months on a soyo sy6vba133/celeron, no problems (but I always used plug and play monitor drivers). On recollection, I installed the upgrade patch for directx 7 to directx 7a around the time I installed monitor drivers (which I got from a web site, but Im pretty sure they are the correct ones). And so I cant be really sure which act caused the problem. My current system is only 3 weeks old so I don't mind doing another windows install. (Bah !)
cheers,
Solpadeine

 

[vvvvvv]

put that fsaa thing on 2x