I have been working on this for 3 days now. Here is my story.
My son's computer had an unlisenced version of WinXp, which came preinstalled when I bought the used compter. I personally prefer Win2000, so I set about installing it on his system. All went well until it came to 2 hardware devices. The video card says right on it:
Rage 128 Pro
Xpert2000pro
P/N 1025-B4030 00142
S/N A209152064
Win2000 does not recognize it. I went to ATI to get the drivers and downloaded: W2KR128513013279. The first time I tried to install this driver I was asked for a WinXP disk to obtain files. I happened to have a copy of one and it could not find the correct files. I searched his old drive and found them, which seemed to satisfy the install. On reboot I got THE BIG BLUE SCREEN. I cannot recall what it said, but when I did a search I found this advice:
RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, add the following line of code to the sources file before you compile the driver:
LINKER_FLAGS=$(SDK_LIB_PATH)\exsup.lib
This links your driver to the appropriate exception handler library and prevents you from receiving any load-time error message.
NOTE: In the free build environment, you need to change the optimization from the default (Oxs) to (Ox). You can do that by typing set MSC_OPTIMIZATION=/Ox. Also, Exsup.lib is only available in the Windows XP DDK. For additional information on the DDK, see the following Microsoft Web site.
My problem with that is I have no clue where the "sources file" is located where I am to input this script. After trying to find an answer without positive results I reinstalled 2k and did ALL the Windows Upgrades, added DirectX and checked for viruses (none).
I freshly downloaded the drivers from ATI and attempted to install the graphic drivers again. Now I get the message: This display driver is not compatible with the display adapter(s) installed in your system.
So.....from what now? I assure you this card worked just fine before I reinstalled. Oh yeah, and now though some boneheaded, tech-wannabe move on my part, I have cleared all data from his old drive so any files there that might have helped are gone into the great trashcan of no return.
Thanks for reading all this. I feel a bit better just for typing it out. I would feel much better if I could get more than 16 colors to show on his system.
Randy
My son's computer had an unlisenced version of WinXp, which came preinstalled when I bought the used compter. I personally prefer Win2000, so I set about installing it on his system. All went well until it came to 2 hardware devices. The video card says right on it:
Rage 128 Pro
Xpert2000pro
P/N 1025-B4030 00142
S/N A209152064
Win2000 does not recognize it. I went to ATI to get the drivers and downloaded: W2KR128513013279. The first time I tried to install this driver I was asked for a WinXP disk to obtain files. I happened to have a copy of one and it could not find the correct files. I searched his old drive and found them, which seemed to satisfy the install. On reboot I got THE BIG BLUE SCREEN. I cannot recall what it said, but when I did a search I found this advice:
RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, add the following line of code to the sources file before you compile the driver:
LINKER_FLAGS=$(SDK_LIB_PATH)\exsup.lib
This links your driver to the appropriate exception handler library and prevents you from receiving any load-time error message.
NOTE: In the free build environment, you need to change the optimization from the default (Oxs) to (Ox). You can do that by typing set MSC_OPTIMIZATION=/Ox. Also, Exsup.lib is only available in the Windows XP DDK. For additional information on the DDK, see the following Microsoft Web site.
My problem with that is I have no clue where the "sources file" is located where I am to input this script. After trying to find an answer without positive results I reinstalled 2k and did ALL the Windows Upgrades, added DirectX and checked for viruses (none).
I freshly downloaded the drivers from ATI and attempted to install the graphic drivers again. Now I get the message: This display driver is not compatible with the display adapter(s) installed in your system.
So.....from what now? I assure you this card worked just fine before I reinstalled. Oh yeah, and now though some boneheaded, tech-wannabe move on my part, I have cleared all data from his old drive so any files there that might have helped are gone into the great trashcan of no return.
Thanks for reading all this. I feel a bit better just for typing it out. I would feel much better if I could get more than 16 colors to show on his system.
Randy