HELP. REALLY OLD GRAPHICS CARD!

Jak_Sparra

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[/b]Hi, i'm fixing an old pc for a friend, (cpu=k6-550mhz! memory=128) and the graphics card is showin as ATI Technologies Inc. RAGE VR AGP.

The drivers they got with the pc only work with windows 95/98....

I looked at ATI's site and i cant find Windows 2000 drivers for it? I'm looking in the wrong place or is there a general driver i can use?

Please help, i;m not sure what drivers to get?!?
 
fixing up his crew cut.

Joke aside, I wonder if said graphic card would be supported by a Catalyst driver: it belongs in the much older Rage family (Catalyst covers only Radeon and more recent).

One solution would be using Linux to identify the exact chip type then d/l the corresponding win2k driver.
 

Jak_Sparra

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well, i;m even more confused now! :cry:

in the end i just left it, i never installed anything appart from windows 2000 and service pack 3. it seems ok at 800x600. Thank you for your input anyway!
 

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i've dealt with a few of those driver issues, the path i use is just pull the card off and check for some info in versions and manufactures an the site i use is the www.driverguide.com wich needs some free registrations and usually i can find the driver it takes a little time but try a few versions look for those above 50% rate the higher the better ;)
 

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That is almost definitelt the Rage 128 VR agp uses the Rage 128 drivers and software From ATI
Select windows 2000 drivers rage 128/128pro this is all the software and driver
From Microsoft via soft.32

The second is an XP driver but will work fine as well. I have a Rage pro 32mb in a "MP3 player" and it runs 32bit color and 1024 x 768 no problem. And the Ati mmc and other soft works well on 2000 and Xp.
 

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thankyou again for all your help, but i gave it back to the old women i was fixing it for, i told her if she has any problams to contact me. ( i did it free for her cos she's a total n00b, even worse then me).
{i tried to give her a free scanner i dont use anymore, but she has no idea what it is and started taliking about newspapers, she would'nt take it!}