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Can I use an X800 XL AGP card with windows 98? I have a dual boot system and
sometimes need to go to win98 for games and such. The ATI website seems to
be saying that win98 support stopped at 9800PRO. Am I reading this right?

Nick
 
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Yes. Win 98 is NO longer supported. Welcome to the 21st Century.

--
DaveW



"Nick Zvaleko" <dunwich@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:Rqcde.18768$V02.17383@fe08.lga...
> Can I use an X800 XL AGP card with windows 98? I have a dual boot system
> and
> sometimes need to go to win98 for games and such. The ATI website seems to
> be saying that win98 support stopped at 9800PRO. Am I reading this right?
>
> Nick
>
>
 
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Note the original poster has a dual-boot system. Too bad some games made in
the 20th Century don't work well with XP.

--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."


"DaveW" <none@zero.org> wrote in message
news:_Mqdnc_HaaCQ-ujfRVn-qg@comcast.com...
> Yes. Win 98 is NO longer supported. Welcome to the 21st Century.
>
> --
> DaveW
>
>
>
> "Nick Zvaleko" <dunwich@optonline.net> wrote in message
> news:Rqcde.18768$V02.17383@fe08.lga...
>> Can I use an X800 XL AGP card with windows 98? I have a dual boot system
>> and
>> sometimes need to go to win98 for games and such. The ATI website seems
>> to
>> be saying that win98 support stopped at 9800PRO. Am I reading this right?
>>
>> Nick
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati (More info?)

Nick Zvaleko wrote:
> Can I use an X800 XL AGP card with windows 98? I have a dual boot system and
> sometimes need to go to win98 for games and such. The ATI website seems to
> be saying that win98 support stopped at 9800PRO. Am I reading this right?

Not sure where you're reading that.

According to:
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/Catalyst_52_Release_Notes_WinME.html

These:
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/wme-8-03-98-3-050117a-021000e.exe

Support X800 series on 98se.

Ben
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Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati (More info?)

Well, I went and bought one and wow! It almost doubled my framerate from a
9800PRO on XP. The problem is I cannot get it to recogize the X800XL on
Win98 as AGP. Win98 sees it as a PCI and I can't get the ATI software to
install properly.

After reboot, Win98 loads and just as the desktop is supposed to appear I
get a black screen.

I'm using the Win98/ME drivers and when it runs the install it says it's
installing Win98 drivers. Is there a way to force WinME drivers? Am I doing
something wrong?

ASUS A7N8X Deluxe 1.06 BIOS 1008
Win98SE
1gigabyte ram

Nick


"Nick Zvaleko" <dunwich@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:Rqcde.18768$V02.17383@fe08.lga...
> Can I use an X800 XL AGP card with windows 98? I have a dual boot system
and
> sometimes need to go to win98 for games and such. The ATI website seems to
> be saying that win98 support stopped at 9800PRO. Am I reading this right?
>
> Nick
>
>
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati (More info?)

Why buy a $300 video card to play old tech games in the first place.

DaveL


"First of One" <daxinfx@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:9sydna-SoJS-BujfRVn-2A@rogers.com...
> Note the original poster has a dual-boot system. Too bad some games made
> in the 20th Century don't work well with XP.
>
> --
> "War is the continuation of politics by other means.
> It can therefore be said that politics is war without
> bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
>
>
> "DaveW" <none@zero.org> wrote in message
> news:_Mqdnc_HaaCQ-ujfRVn-qg@comcast.com...
>> Yes. Win 98 is NO longer supported. Welcome to the 21st Century.
>>
>> --
>> DaveW
>>
>>
>>
>> "Nick Zvaleko" <dunwich@optonline.net> wrote in message
>> news:Rqcde.18768$V02.17383@fe08.lga...
>>> Can I use an X800 XL AGP card with windows 98? I have a dual boot system
>>> and
>>> sometimes need to go to win98 for games and such. The ATI website seems
>>> to
>>> be saying that win98 support stopped at 9800PRO. Am I reading this
>>> right?
>>>
>>> Nick
>
>
 
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You got it backwards. The video card is a TOOL. Playing games *of your
choice* is the purpose. What, spending $300 shouldn't allow you go play
enjoyable old-tech games *along with* the new-tech ones? Not too many people
outside of the Mac community can accept this.

And it's not just games. I just discovered Unsafedisc doesn't work with
2000/XP. Had to blow the dust off an old Win98 box just to make a patched
exe.

--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."


"DaveL" <dave1027@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:T9udnfOKJv1hcerfRVn-vw@comcast.com...
> Why buy a $300 video card to play old tech games in the first place.
>
> DaveL
>
>
> "First of One" <daxinfx@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:9sydna-SoJS-BujfRVn-2A@rogers.com...
>> Note the original poster has a dual-boot system. Too bad some games made
>> in the 20th Century don't work well with XP.
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati (More info?)

You may have to install the drivers manually. Use Winrar or Winzip and
extract the latest Win9x/Me Catalyst files (should be v5.2) from the
installer program to a temporary folder.

Go into device manager, right-click on the video card and open up its
properties. In the "driver" tab, there is an "update driver" button. Click
on that and follow through. When asked, click on "have disk" and point to
the folder where you extracted the files.

--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."


"Nick Zvaleko" <dunwich@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:GQLde.20246$V02.9565@fe08.lga...
> Well, I went and bought one and wow! It almost doubled my framerate from a
> 9800PRO on XP. The problem is I cannot get it to recogize the X800XL on
> Win98 as AGP. Win98 sees it as a PCI and I can't get the ATI software to
> install properly.
>
> After reboot, Win98 loads and just as the desktop is supposed to appear I
> get a black screen.
>
> I'm using the Win98/ME drivers and when it runs the install it says it's
> installing Win98 drivers. Is there a way to force WinME drivers? Am I
> doing
> something wrong?
>
> ASUS A7N8X Deluxe 1.06 BIOS 1008
> Win98SE
> 1gigabyte ram
>
> Nick
>
>
> "Nick Zvaleko" <dunwich@optonline.net> wrote in message
> news:Rqcde.18768$V02.17383@fe08.lga...
>> Can I use an X800 XL AGP card with windows 98? I have a dual boot system
> and
>> sometimes need to go to win98 for games and such. The ATI website seems
>> to
>> be saying that win98 support stopped at 9800PRO. Am I reading this right?
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>
>
 
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