JonB
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I have a Matrox G450 on my CP/M transfer machine. It's fine in DOS mode but when launching Windows 98 I get a dialogue box complaining there are system resource clashes, and the GUI runs in the basic 600x400 16 colour mode.
I had a look at the Matrox website but they only list drivers for WinXP and later for the G450.
Is there any alternative driver I can try? I saw an XP driver for the G450_tv card in their legacy driver section but I'm not sure I want to go ahead and install it just in case it breaks my XP install.
Edit: I installed it, but it hasn't made any difference. I also tried the GS400 Win98 Driver. The problem appears to be the resource conflicts - they are memory address ranges the card needs conflicting with the motherboard's PnP BIOS addresses (or so W98 is saying). The device status in Device Manager is "This device cannot find any free Input/Output Range (I/O) resources to use (Code 12)." I have tried the Hardware Troubleshooter but it has no answers for me. I also tried removing the device that is comflicting (the BIOS PnP extensions) but Win98 just reinstalled on reboot.
What can I do? Maybe I need a motherboard driver? Or cna the card be configured to use a different address range?
I had a look at the Matrox website but they only list drivers for WinXP and later for the G450.
Is there any alternative driver I can try? I saw an XP driver for the G450_tv card in their legacy driver section but I'm not sure I want to go ahead and install it just in case it breaks my XP install.
Edit: I installed it, but it hasn't made any difference. I also tried the GS400 Win98 Driver. The problem appears to be the resource conflicts - they are memory address ranges the card needs conflicting with the motherboard's PnP BIOS addresses (or so W98 is saying). The device status in Device Manager is "This device cannot find any free Input/Output Range (I/O) resources to use (Code 12)." I have tried the Hardware Troubleshooter but it has no answers for me. I also tried removing the device that is comflicting (the BIOS PnP extensions) but Win98 just reinstalled on reboot.
What can I do? Maybe I need a motherboard driver? Or cna the card be configured to use a different address range?
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