Author Topic: this weeks pc project (driver ?) (Read 213 times)

Roscoroo · « **on:** May 28, 2005, 09:10:24 PM »

ok im working over a gateway to pass on to a young Girl .. its a
pent 2 400 mhz 370 socket
128mbs ram
6.5 gig

what i need to know if there is any better video drivers and which ones work

what it has is a onboard 8mb ATI Rage 128 VR built in and i wonder if the regular rage drivers work i didnt find any specific ones for the VR just the 4.12 /4.13's for the rage 128 ..

Anyone have experiance with this one ???

if not ill just do the trial and error thing.
(hate to mess up a sweet format though)

Ghosth · « **Reply #1 on:** May 29, 2005, 06:13:51 AM »

Roscoroo

I've "rebuilt" a few gateways in the last couple of years. For drivers my best luck was always going back to the original gateway site. Should be able to type in model # for the case & download the various drivers you need. Video, sound etc.

For most add on cards I'd say you could probably find a better driver out on the net. But for video on the motherboard I think you'd do best sticking with gateways original drivers if you can find them.

Roscoroo · « **Reply #2 on:** May 29, 2005, 11:21:19 AM »

yea thats what i did right after i formated it ..
The gateway support site Always Rocks
its always nice just to enter the number and get everything i need in one pass .

Well it looks like i ended up w/ 4.12 cats or something like that for the onboard rage .

it stress tested good . the only problem is a moving wav across the screen in 32bit 800x600 60 hz , 1024x768 it goes away

i thought it was at 85 hz befor i formated .
perhaps i need a monitor driver .

Ghosth · « **Reply #3 on:** May 29, 2005, 11:17:45 PM »

yeah I'd check monitor driver first.

Glad its working out ok.

Roscoroo · « **Reply #4 on:** May 30, 2005, 03:43:21 PM »

worked great .. All done and Given away .. The Young Girl was just estatic....

Made my day