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snafu
November 29th, 2000, 08:37 AM
Alright just upgraded my system to a Gigabyte GA-7IXE MOBO with Athlon 700 Mhz. I have a crappy 3D Blaster Pro vid card with a Voodoo 2. Everytime I reformat windows finds the device PCI Bridge and I cannot find it to save my life. Also, I cannot play any games with my Voodoo2 card. Any ideas where I can find these drivers from? Thanks in advance.
sage19
November 29th, 2000, 08:47 AM
Does the board use a VIA chipset? If so install the VIA 4-1 drivers and that might fix it.
snafu
November 29th, 2000, 10:07 AM
Do you have a URL which I can d/l this driver? Thanks for your help
Sowulo
November 29th, 2000, 10:43 AM
The driver is on the CD that came with your Motherboard.
Paul Cunningham
November 29th, 2000, 12:19 PM
As far as I can remember this board uses an AMD chipset. The motherboard cd should autorun when you put in. Just install all the amd drivers

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snafu
November 29th, 2000, 12:49 PM
Well don't I feel stupid now. I never inserted the CD since all I thought it had on it was some shareware proggies. I got it to work, but now all my games crash. Guess I'll be looking for all the updated drivers. Thanks for all your help
sage19
November 29th, 2000, 01:09 PM
What version of the 4-1 driver came with your motherboard? the most up to date one is 4.24. You can dl that here
http://www.viatech.com/drivers/index.htm

For the Voodoo card, here is the link to get to the drivers for the Voodoo 2, just select card/0S
http://www.3dfxgamers.com/view.asp?IOID=2428
Good Luck!
Darren Wilson
November 29th, 2000, 04:50 PM
Like Paul posted the GA7-1XE uses the AMD 750 chipset not the VIA, so the 4-in-1 won't make a difference. Try downloading the patches for the chipset from AMD's website. I had a customers system with the same board in today with a prob with the USB controller. Installed the latest patches & Voila!

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snafu
December 1st, 2000, 02:53 PM
Well after I d/led the latest patch, my system completely froze on me and when I went to reboot it stated that my partition is messed up; and had to reformat. For some reason it only messes up with the 3DFX patch, but with any other upgrade I get, it doesn't seem to work. It might be time to purchase a new vid card. Thanks all for all your help. Greatly appreciated