ATI Xpert 128 AGP drivers

[Josh L]

Today I went to the ATI site and saw that they had new drivers (as of dec. 17 I believe) for the Rage 128 series which includes the ATI Xpert 128. So I d/l the new drivers and installed them (didn't uninstall old ones first, I know, stupid mistake). After rebooting my system and seeing the Win98 loading screen it went black and just hung there. No mouse cursor or anything, just a black screen.

I went into safe mode, set my res to 640x480 and then went back to normal windows and it loaded fine. If I try setting the res higher and restart, I get the black screen again.

Does anyone have any idea how to fix this? If not does anyone know where I can find a copy of last build of drivers since ATI doesn't seem to have the older ones on their site at all.

Thank you in advance.

[Kalnick]

I'd like to find those drivers also. If you know where they are let me know.

[Josh L]

Yep, I found them
http://www.ttec.be/doit/loadva/software/w3/TPM_PDC_BIN/treiber/ati/treiber.htm

[juneaud]

I also have the lastest drivers for rage xpert 128, you might want to open your add/remove and try removing your drivers for xpert 128 from there while in safe mode and then try setting your display to standard vga then reloading the updated drivers. Always keep a floppy or zip drive copy of your drivers! Backing up drivers should be 2nd nature for anyone who has a computer..

[grantsullivan]

Originally posted by Kalnick:
I'd like to find those drivers also. If you know where they are let me know.

Did you ever get the problem worked out? How did you do it> I am having the exact same problem.

[Mike Mc]

ok, Here is what i did to fix this problem on my machine. It had been plaugeing me for about a week. I am not sure if all steps are necessary but here goes. First off it wouldn't let me uninstall the ati display driver, so i was screwed on that count. So i reinstalled windows with the sysrec bat file in the tools dir on my win98 disk. Then i uninstalled my AGP driver and installed the latest version of it. After reboots and such it seems to work great now.