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S3 savage 2000 driver issue
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11. March 2006 @ 05:27 |
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Need some help here. I cant seem to find good working savage 2000 agp drivers for win xp or 2000. I had a good set on floppy, but the floppy just died on me. Not the drive...the disk itself. Cant get it to read on three machines. So Im kinda stuck. The problem is the text is blurry on everything. The set of drivers I had was fine without this. Any ideas where to find these? I have no idea where I found them... win 2000 drivers will work with xp...:.
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11. March 2006 @ 05:43 |
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System 1 :- Main PC: AMD XP 3200+ - OC Slightly 2.31Ghz, 1024 MB DDR PC2700, 1 x 40GB Hard Drive, 1 x 60GB Hard Drive, ATI 9600XT (256 MB)Graphics Card.
Laptop 1: 1GB DDR2 Ram, 100Gb Samsung HDD, ATI X700 128mb Graphics Card.
System 2: Downloading PC: AMD Sempron 2500+, 512 MB DDR PC2700, 1 x 40GB Hard Drive.
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11. March 2006 @ 06:56 |
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11. March 2006 @ 15:02 |
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Thanks wdowsing, but no good. In fact all the drivers they had on driver guide are the same problem/. Blurry text. And ddp its a agp card. Via only has support for onboard graphics,..not external. Damn...wish my floppy disk didnt die. Cause I cant find or remeber where the hell I got the drivers that were good and no blurry text. Hmm...maybe I will just put win 98 back on. Cause 98 drivers were fine and I really dont want to put no money in this old crap machine. its just a work comp and a comp for my g/f to play on when Im working on the good one or playing a game. Dont really want to run win 98 though cause she bitches that the webcam crashes 98....:>
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amd 3700+ san diego core oc to 2.50
antec true power 430 watt dual +12 volt rails @ 18 amps each
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2 x 512 DUAL CHANNEL ELIXOR RAM
Ibm P260 dvi & vga 21 inch crt monitor 1600 x 1200 @ 85 htz Oh yeah!!
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11. March 2006 @ 16:39 |
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System 1 :- Main PC: AMD XP 3200+ - OC Slightly 2.31Ghz, 1024 MB DDR PC2700, 1 x 40GB Hard Drive, 1 x 60GB Hard Drive, ATI 9600XT (256 MB)Graphics Card.
Laptop 1: 1GB DDR2 Ram, 100Gb Samsung HDD, ATI X700 128mb Graphics Card.
System 2: Downloading PC: AMD Sempron 2500+, 512 MB DDR PC2700, 1 x 40GB Hard Drive.
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11. March 2006 @ 17:07 |
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12. March 2006 @ 05:37 |
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Thanks again, but no good. Damn wish I could remeber where I got the one I had. I got the text fixed by sitting it to 16 bit, but it sucks cant use the card to full potential with 32 bit color. Although most games she play's I can set to 32 bit in the options.:>
epox mobo EP-9NPAJ
amd 3700+ san diego core oc to 2.50
antec true power 430 watt dual +12 volt rails @ 18 amps each
bfg geforce 6800 gt oc edition
dragon case
2 x 512 DUAL CHANNEL ELIXOR RAM
Ibm P260 dvi & vga 21 inch crt monitor 1600 x 1200 @ 85 htz Oh yeah!!
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12. March 2006 @ 13:11 |
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Well, given how old the card is, it looks like you may have to live with it, unless you buy something cheap to replace it, like a 9250 or something. You can pick those up on ebay for like $25.
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13. March 2006 @ 00:46 |
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Yeah thats the thing. Its going to be hard to find a 2x agp or even a pci vid card. Oh well...piss on it. I only use this to test old sdram, hard drives, and as a d/l machine. So it dont matter. Was just trying to make my g/f happy is all. :>
Some day I will update it...It's just hard to pass something you get for free and its good for surfing and runs win xp on 2 sticks of 128 ram..lol:
epox mobo EP-9NPAJ
amd 3700+ san diego core oc to 2.50
antec true power 430 watt dual +12 volt rails @ 18 amps each
bfg geforce 6800 gt oc edition
dragon case
2 x 512 DUAL CHANNEL ELIXOR RAM
Ibm P260 dvi & vga 21 inch crt monitor 1600 x 1200 @ 85 htz Oh yeah!!
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13. March 2006 @ 07:08 |
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see if a 4x or 8x agp will work in the motherboard?
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13. March 2006 @ 07:21 |
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Since the existing card is 4x and the fact that pretty much all 8x AGP cards will backspeed to 4x, most cards should plug straight in. Depends whether or not you want to go to the effort of changing the heatsink. It's £20 and 10 minutes' work, or £50 and 2 minutes' work, up to you.
Edit: of course for most people i should say $40 and $90.
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13. March 2006 @ 07:41 |
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Thats the thing sam its a 2 speed slot. Maybe I will look up on ebay for a card, but I just didnt want to spend the money. Espically since a nicey new card wont even run to its full potential since we are dealing with a 800 amd and 2 sticks of 128 sdram..LOL!
epox mobo EP-9NPAJ
amd 3700+ san diego core oc to 2.50
antec true power 430 watt dual +12 volt rails @ 18 amps each
bfg geforce 6800 gt oc edition
dragon case
2 x 512 DUAL CHANNEL ELIXOR RAM
Ibm P260 dvi & vga 21 inch crt monitor 1600 x 1200 @ 85 htz Oh yeah!!
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13. March 2006 @ 08:02 |
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Oops sorry I'm confusing this with another thread where his fan has packed up, sorry.
2x cards are generally a different voltage to 4 and 8 so you need to try and identify whether any replacements will work on the different voltage setting. If they don't, I can't see much 32-bit life left in the system.
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13. March 2006 @ 08:42 |
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LOL! Neither do I unless I come across the drivers I had tyill my floppy died. I was hoping someone her would have them. Under win 98 is perfect....so the card is obviously good. Its just a matter of finding win 2000 drivers that work good....
epox mobo EP-9NPAJ
amd 3700+ san diego core oc to 2.50
antec true power 430 watt dual +12 volt rails @ 18 amps each
bfg geforce 6800 gt oc edition
dragon case
2 x 512 DUAL CHANNEL ELIXOR RAM
Ibm P260 dvi & vga 21 inch crt monitor 1600 x 1200 @ 85 htz Oh yeah!!
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13. March 2006 @ 12:30 |
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Well, all you can really do is keep hunting. Floppy disks are fickle things, in hindsight it perhaps would have been better to back that data up to hard disk.
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13. March 2006 @ 13:06 |
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hinsight is a very bad thing if i gave a pound for every time i siad that i would have no money at all to my name. You never know what is around the corner.
System 1 :- Main PC: AMD XP 3200+ - OC Slightly 2.31Ghz, 1024 MB DDR PC2700, 1 x 40GB Hard Drive, 1 x 60GB Hard Drive, ATI 9600XT (256 MB)Graphics Card.
Laptop 1: 1GB DDR2 Ram, 100Gb Samsung HDD, ATI X700 128mb Graphics Card.
System 2: Downloading PC: AMD Sempron 2500+, 512 MB DDR PC2700, 1 x 40GB Hard Drive.
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13. March 2006 @ 13:09 |
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That's true, but who really trusts floppy disks?
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13. March 2006 @ 15:02 |
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Well I used to trust floppies, but not no more. Im gonna buy a zip drive and see if they are better backup than hard drive or floppy. Someone posted here on ad the best backup was a tape....so maybe zip is a good thing.:>
epox mobo EP-9NPAJ
amd 3700+ san diego core oc to 2.50
antec true power 430 watt dual +12 volt rails @ 18 amps each
bfg geforce 6800 gt oc edition
dragon case
2 x 512 DUAL CHANNEL ELIXOR RAM
Ibm P260 dvi & vga 21 inch crt monitor 1600 x 1200 @ 85 htz Oh yeah!!
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14. March 2006 @ 12:25 |
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CD/DVD?
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14. March 2006 @ 12:30 |
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Yes cd is good backup, but Im worried bout the life span even with a good media. I guess there is no true good way to back up stuff. Hard drives fail, cd's do....so on.
epox mobo EP-9NPAJ
amd 3700+ san diego core oc to 2.50
antec true power 430 watt dual +12 volt rails @ 18 amps each
bfg geforce 6800 gt oc edition
dragon case
2 x 512 DUAL CHANNEL ELIXOR RAM
Ibm P260 dvi & vga 21 inch crt monitor 1600 x 1200 @ 85 htz Oh yeah!!
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14. March 2006 @ 12:33 |
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The only option is to do all of them, and redo each one if ever one fails.
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