JB,
Well, the reason for my query was because any/all driver(s) the install
found (that was liked) came from the VISTA part/folder/pointer of the
CD! Yes, I did see that the CD had drivers for XP, but I can not get the
installer to install them on my w2k OS. Dumb me. I find this very odd. I
have never had this halt between XP and w2K before. Something new to me.
As I said prior, I now have a new plan.
Thank you Thane, I be back. The move remains suspended. It may be an XP
disk to another XP platform!
LOL!
The propensity of these machines keeps me going. It is just too much
fun........ :)
Thank you,
Duncan
At 02:01 12/04/2008 +0000, you wrote:
What pushes you to vista exactly? the 3450 DOES have drivers for XP
On 4 Dec 2008, at 01:54, DHSinclair wrote:
JB,
Yes, perhaps this might be part of this current kurfuffle.
Fine. I can accept this; but, I will not be driven by a video card
mfg to
an OS upgrade to Vista just to play with the card! That just suckx
in my book.
The folks that play Vista and live happy, fine. I salute you. Live
well and prosper!
I've lived through the past 3 years of bitching about Vista. I
choose NO!
I live with w2kproSP4 and XPproSP3. If ATI does not care for this,
I have a
fall back plan. It is called nVidia!
Best,
Duncan
At 01:02 12/04/2008 +0000, you wrote:
um, ATI.com doesn't appear to _have_ drivers for Windows 2000 for the
3450 ?
On 4 Dec 2008, at 00:48:300, DHSinclair wrote:
OK, my new MSI ATI Radeon 3450 arrived today.
I did remove my test Matrox PCI G200 per proper removal. Shut-down
and pulled the G200.
(The ATI CD is in the reader.)
I installed the 3450 per the directions.
Power the PC on.
It did light up! The card works...........
That ends the good news.............
I can not load drivers for it! I keep getting error msgs about
Vista 64. WTF.(?)
The widows say I loaded the drivers, but so far NO Soap! Screen res
remains 640x480.
My OS is W2Kpro SP4.
The driver pop-ups keep talking about HD Audio drivers that I do not
wish to load. I am using the RealTek on-board audio supplied by the
Asus P5Q3.
So, I went to ATI and dl'd the last/latest driver for w2kpro. It
will not work either! The process dies because it can NOT find a
proper dot-inf file.......... I am greatly confused now.
nVidia NEVER did this. Sorry. But, at the moment, ATI is not
making me a happy camper.
Any clues or help will be greatly appreciated!
If I can not get this card to load, I am back again to nVidia.
Thank you,
Duncan
