I need drivers for my HP MX75 Monitor and some PCI drivers

I recently "downgraded" to Windows 98 using a computer PC that was previously working with Windows XP Professional.

I simply installed Windows98. And the reason for that was that I was tired of trying to run Windows98 programs/games on XP. And I simply always liked to work with Windows98.

Anywhoo, after installing Windows98, I discovered that my computer needed some drivers.

My Monitor Display only runs in awful 16 bit colours, instead of the 32 bit colours it had before. I noticed that befored I did these changes to my computer, I noticed that on Display Properties>Settings>Display>It said S3G_ProsavageDDR. I suppose that is the name of my graphics card.

My other problem is that I got at least 4 PCI problems. I got a "?" symbol on these:

? PCI Multimedia Audio Device
? PCI Card
? PCI Ethernet Controller

Needless to say, my computer does not have sound. And I checked to see if I have a sound card on my PC and there is a very small card (like an inch long). I think that is the sound card.

By the way, my computer is a:

Authentic AMD Athlon (tm) XP 2000+

And my monitor has been identified as a "MX75" on Display Properties. It's an HP model.

Do you know where can I get the proper drivers in order to make my PC work fine again?

Thanks!

Hi and welcome to D-A-L

you may have a problem with drivers there may be no drivers for an old O/S and some of the newer hardware.

have you got the drivers that came with the motherboard?

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If the machine is HP (as well as the monitor), and has not been specifically designed for XP (as brain_damage mentioned) you can probably get the drivers required for that model at the HP website.

The display adapter/chip may be an S3 Virge variant, which is quite old.

PCI Multimedia Audio Device - Sound card/chip
PCI Card - Possibly a modem, either onboard or seperate card
PCI Ethernet Controller

To find out what hardware you have, download, install, and run Everest Home Edition on this machine. (Clean FreeWare) Once it's finished loading and running, look under Computer, Summary, Display, or under Display, PCI/AGP Video. This will tell you what display adapter/chip you have. Post that information. (Video Adapter and 3D Accelerator.)

Look under Multimedia: to see what's listed as the sound device.

If you have any problems wading through the results, you can save a report and attach it to a posting for us to look at.

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Hi! Thanks for the replies!

I got some information from my computer after installing AIDA32. A program to audit my PC.

This is the information I received (part of it, anyway):

CPU TYPE: AMD Athlon XP 1666 Mhz
Motherboard Name: FICAM35
Motherboard Chipset: VIA VT8375 ProsavageDDR KM266
BIOS Type: Award

From the above information, I understood that my graphics card was actually built-in with the motherboard. Correct me if I'm wrong, since I'm just guessing.

My graphics card has been identified as: S3 Prosavage DDR (86c420) (It does not actually say it's a graphics card, but that info was under the "video" section of the results from Aida32.

More info on my PC:

OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 98 SE
SYSTEM MODEL: HP Pavillion 06D7218M
PROCESSOR: 1.67 Gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
128 Memory Cache

CIRCUIT BOARD: KM266-8235
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies


The problem I have is that I need drivers to work with my graphics card. But if the graphics card is embedded in the motherboard, do I need drivers for the motherboard or just the graphics card? And since the computer was designed to work with Windows XP, will the drivers (or the graphics card) even work under Windows 98? I honestly don't know. Please help.

I downloaded from the S3 website some drivers that are suppose to work with a S3 ProsavageDDR card, but I found out it was for Windows XP. I did managed to sort of install some drivers (by making my computer use them). On Display Properties>Settings>Display it now identifies the card as a prosavageddr. But I still have 2-16 colors. So I guess the (forced) installation did not work at all. So I decided to start from scratch and format my PC again and install Windows98. Now the Display simply says that I'm using a generic PCI Video Adapter (VGA). I cannot get it to identify my graphics card. Thus I need drivers. I still don't know if that is possible working with Win98, though. Any help would be hot.

I was able to make my computer have sound again using a program called AC97 Audio Driver. So that problem was solved. But I think that it worked because the sound card was also embedded with the motherboard.

The other new problem I have is with my CD-R drive. It's a Plextor CD-R PX-W8432T.

My PC won't identify it as a CD-R drive. It just thinks it's a regular cd rom drive. I went to Plextor website and downloaded a program that was suppose to install the drivers, but my PC still won't identify my CD-R nor can I burn anything on a cd.

But hey, for now I just want to know if I can make my XP designed PC to work with the win98 OS and have my display work with more than 16 freakin' colors.

Again, any help would be highly appreciated.



Oh, nope. I got this computer from an ads advert on the newspaper. I bought it as is with no additional installation CD's or software. So basically I have to use the net to download everything I need. Including the drivers.

Iwas thinking that maybe it's not possible to make my PC work with Win98, because in my search around the web some people told me that OS is flawed. And that it's flawed because it does not install the drivers properly.

I'm afraid this little experiment to make my XP designed PC a Win98 compatible PC, will not work. But I want to try and make it work. If it does not work, then I'll go back to boring old Windows XP.

According to this;

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...&lang=en&cc=us

it's designed for XP, and only supports XP drivers for that hardware.

I'll investigate some more and be back.

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I did manage to get my XP designed PC to work with Windows 98!

How I fixed the problem with my monitor only displaying 16 colors:

I used Aida32 to identify my graphics card. It turned out to be a ProsavageDDR. So I did a little googlin' and came up with this website:

http://www.s3graphics.com/en/resourc...re_archive.jsp

What I did was to install the drivers for my ProsavageDDR graphics card. But I HAD to install the drivers designed for Windows 98 and not the drivers designed to work with XP.

The file is here: http://drivers.s3graphics.com/en/dow...wIShldlogo.zip

Once I installed those drivers, my monitor was able to display 32 bit colours again! It worked like a charm.

Regarding the audio problem I had before, I actually used VIA AC97 Viny Audio (and not the program I had mentioned before on this thread). And after installing it my computer was able to play sound again. I was able to listen to my mp3's, listen to the audio in videos played on WMP and play some games with sound (I have yet to fully test the sound in several games I have).

So everything is fine, except that like I said before, my Plextor CD-R writer cannot write at all. I'm still working on that.

It appears that what I need is SOFTWARE to burn CD'S and not drivers. At the Plextor website they recommend me using Roxio cd burning software. But I only have the version of Roxio that works with Windows XP. After searching on the web, I discovered that I needed a version of Roxio that works and is compatible with Windows 98. And that version is "Easy CD & DVD Creator Ver.6"

It's a bit expensive. So I'm looking for more afordable options. I even got a free software to try and make my burner write cd's again, but it didn't work at all. So I'm hoping to get a hold of Roxio ver.6 and try it out.

Oh, and another problem is that I cannot use my HITACHI LG DVD player to watch dvd's on my computer. But it seems that I need to install PowerDVD to get things going on that front.

I know that most of this things I have fixed on my own (actually by searching for data on the net), but I still thank the people here for their support. Maybe someone else could be in the same predicament and use this experience for their benefit?

Congratulations. You did what I was doing. There are machines which can be loaded with earlier drivers and work fine, and then there's some that just won't do it. It appears that you found the "compatable" drivers for that hardware.

"So everything is fine, except that like I said before, my Plextor CD-R writer cannot write at all. I'm still working on that.

It appears that what I need is SOFTWARE to burn CD'S and not drivers."

Quite correct. Drivers just enable the hardware. To run certain functional capabilities of that hardware usually requires software. There's quite a few "generic" burning programs available on the net, a number of them "Freeware", but experimentation is required to see if they'll work with the hardware in question. Let us know if you can't find something compatable. Three or four heads thinking/looking are usually better than one. ;>)

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Yeah, I tried some of those with little luck. However, I got everything running fine now.

My CD-R drive is burning cd's thanks to Roxio's "Easy CD & DVD ver.6". I simply installed this software and started burning on a cd some files in no time.

I had to make sure that I installed a version of Roxio that was compatible with Win98, though. And version 6 does the trick. So there you go.

About my DVD drive not playing DVD's? Well, I also got that fixed by simply installing "WinDVD version 5. That's all.

Before installing "WinDVD5" I was tempted to install some new firmware that was suppose to fix or update my DVD drive. But after reading more about that, I found out it was pretty risky to do that. Because if I didn't installed it the right way or installed the wrong firmware, I could damage my DVD drive beyond repair. So I decided to stay away from that. I simply went after some DVD playing software (WinDVD5) and got things working again.

So everything is great at the moment. I'm playing some old/new games on my PC. Games that had a problem playing on XP. And I'm happy using that OS to do other type of work.

I had a little problem with Notepad, though. In Windows 98, Notepad is very limited by memory. So let's say you write a loooong document, you'll eventually get a dialog box that says that the document cannot open in Notepad and that you'll have to use Wordpad.

I don't like using Wordpad, so I installed on my computer "MetaPad". A notepad look-a like program. So now I can write documents as long as I want with no problems.

Thanks for the help! Here's hoping that my experience may help anybody in a similar situation.

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