MSI FX 5900 Ultra installation problem

GrahamP · Aug 26, 2003, 09:29 PM

Hi,

I'm having difficulty installing the drivers for a MSI FX 5900 Ultra. The following explains:-

1. Upgraded to Gigabyte 8KNXP motherboard with 3.2 MHx P4, 1 GByte DDR 3200 RAM and MSI GeForce FX 5900 Ultra, initially using same hard drive without re-installing the operating system. PSU is a 430W Enermax.

2. Had trouble (as described below) installing FX 5900 Ultra drivers but eventually after a few attempts it appeared to work but there were problems with a flight simulator (Falcon 4) locking up frequently so decided to do a complete re-install.

3. Re-installed Win98SE, with the FX 5900 Ultra being the only card fitted and it worked correctly on the Standard VGA drivers.

4. Installed nVIDIA 44.03 drivers by running Setup on the MSI CD.

5. Restarted when prompted, reached Windows Logo screen, then reached C:\ prompt but would not go any further.

6. Restarted and it went to Safe Mode on the Startup Menu. Continued the restart in Safe Mode and Device Manager showed MSI MS-Starforce GeForce FX 5900 Ultra installed, hardware version 161, on IRQ 5 with "This device is working properly".

7. Restarted and went to startup menu again then selected Normal and continued the restart. This gave "Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer."

8. I've tried installing the drivers by using "Update Driver" in the Device Manager and browsing to the CD but the same thing happens.

9. I've tried installing DirectX 9.0 before installing the FX 5900 drivers and the same thing happens.

10 I've tried the nVidia 4.03 drivers and the Detonator 45.23 drivers and the same thing happens.

11. All motherboard drivers installed before trying to install FX 5900 drivers.

12. Drive Cleaner used then tried installing drivers again but still no joy.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

~~tenndevil~~ · Aug 27, 2003, 04:09 AM

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Upgraded to Gigabyte 8KNXP motherboard with 3.2 MHx P4, 1 GByte DDR 3200 RAM

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Re-installed Win98SE

I'm not sure it is your video card, WIN98 Can deal with 512mb of ram comfortably and then it can deal with 768mb of memory, but anything above that you can look for problems and quite a few too. It may not happen on install or even with some programs, but it will run into allocation problems and can cause memory errors, take a stick out and see what happens.

GrahamP · Aug 27, 2003, 08:10 PM

Good call Tenndevil !!!

I took one 512MB stick out and the 44.03 drivers installed fine :-)

I then added maxfilecache=524288 under Vcache in system.ini, refitted the second 512MB stick and it worked fine. I must admit I don't fully understand what's happening here. Do I actually gain anything by having the extra memory in like this?

Thanks very much for your help.

WyreTheWolf · Aug 29, 2003, 06:01 AM

You will not gain anything in Windows 98, you will need to upgrade to 2000 or XP to gain the performance increases.

GrahamP · Aug 29, 2003, 05:53 PM

Thanks.

Aug 26, 2003, 09:29 PM	#1
GrahamP DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	MSI FX 5900 Ultra installation problem Hi, I'm having difficulty installing the drivers for a MSI FX 5900 Ultra. The following explains:- 1. Upgraded to Gigabyte 8KNXP motherboard with 3.2 MHx P4, 1 GByte DDR 3200 RAM and MSI GeForce FX 5900 Ultra, initially using same hard drive without re-installing the operating system. PSU is a 430W Enermax. 2. Had trouble (as described below) installing FX 5900 Ultra drivers but eventually after a few attempts it appeared to work but there were problems with a flight simulator (Falcon 4) locking up frequently so decided to do a complete re-install. 3. Re-installed Win98SE, with the FX 5900 Ultra being the only card fitted and it worked correctly on the Standard VGA drivers. 4. Installed nVIDIA 44.03 drivers by running Setup on the MSI CD. 5. Restarted when prompted, reached Windows Logo screen, then reached C:\ prompt but would not go any further. 6. Restarted and it went to Safe Mode on the Startup Menu. Continued the restart in Safe Mode and Device Manager showed MSI MS-Starforce GeForce FX 5900 Ultra installed, hardware version 161, on IRQ 5 with "This device is working properly". 7. Restarted and went to startup menu again then selected Normal and continued the restart. This gave "Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer." 8. I've tried installing the drivers by using "Update Driver" in the Device Manager and browsing to the CD but the same thing happens. 9. I've tried installing DirectX 9.0 before installing the FX 5900 drivers and the same thing happens. 10 I've tried the nVidia 4.03 drivers and the Detonator 45.23 drivers and the same thing happens. 11. All motherboard drivers installed before trying to install FX 5900 drivers. 12. Drive Cleaner used then tried installing drivers again but still no joy. Any help would be very much appreciated.

Aug 27, 2003, 08:10 PM	Thread Starter #3
GrahamP DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	Good call Tenndevil !!! I took one 512MB stick out and the 44.03 drivers installed fine :-) I then added maxfilecache=524288 under Vcache in system.ini, refitted the second 512MB stick and it worked fine. I must admit I don't fully understand what's happening here. Do I actually gain anything by having the extra memory in like this? Thanks very much for your help.

Aug 29, 2003, 06:01 AM	#4
WyreTheWolf Wolfish Bastard Join Date: May 2002 Location: Cave; Ozark Mountains Posts: 2,110 Rep Power: 0	You will not gain anything in Windows 98, you will need to upgrade to 2000 or XP to gain the performance increases.

Aug 29, 2003, 05:53 PM	Thread Starter #5
GrahamP DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	Thanks.