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Title: ATI rage pro with Asus MB issue Help!
Post by: epic69 on September 06, 2005, 10:20:09 pm

I seem to have a lockup issue with ArcadeOs and dMame using dos 7.0. I am trying to get this ATI rage pro video card to work with an Asus motherboard with Via chipset. every time I try and run ArcadeOs or Mame in dos it just locks up. I have searched the forums and found a few people with similiar issues. One suggested installing the Via 4 in 1 update driver. I have done that and still i cannot get this resolved. Any suggestions? Ideas? I am at teh end of my rope on this one.

Title: Re: ATI rage pro with Asus MB issue Help!
Post by: epic69 on September 07, 2005, 01:56:41 pm

Forgot to mention that i am using Svideo output to a 25" TV.

Title: Re: ATI rage pro with Asus MB issue Help!
Post by: epic69 on September 13, 2005, 12:21:41 pm

*bump* I still need some assistance on this issue, if anybody has some infomation. Thanks!

Title: Re: ATI rage pro with Asus MB issue Help!
Post by: dabone on September 13, 2005, 12:23:19 pm

The 4in1 driver is for windows only.

Are you running freedos 7.0?

Try switching to a windows 98 dos boot.

http://www.bootdisk.com

see if that helps at all.


Later,
dabone

Title: Re: ATI rage pro with Asus MB issue Help!
Post by: epic69 on September 13, 2005, 03:59:37 pm

Yes I am using Win 98 Dos. (dos 7.0) Are you aware of any drivers i can download to get this working correctly?

Title: Re: ATI rage pro with Asus MB issue Help!
Post by: dabone on September 13, 2005, 04:40:58 pm

DOS DOES NOT REQUIRE DRIVERS FOR MOTHERBOARDS!
(Just sound and mouse drivers)



Are you running it from within windows??

These apps are made to run from dos only, not a dos command line window under windows.

To boot into straight dos mode edit your c:\msdos.sys file and change bootgui=0
(Also to disable the win98 splash screen add logo=0)

Later,
dabone

Title: Re: ATI rage pro with Asus MB issue Help!
Post by: epic69 on September 13, 2005, 05:00:01 pm

I am runnig dos and i have modified the msdos.sys.  I do not have a problem running arcadeos or dMame from within windows dos prompt.  I do get a lcokup when trying to run arcadeos or dmame from pure win98 Dos.

Title: Re: ATI rage pro with Asus MB issue Help!
Post by: epic69 on September 13, 2005, 05:06:43 pm

I should also add that the PC is curently using an Nvidia video card which does work fine in DOS. But the reason I am trying to use the ATI video card is that the TV out quality is much much better. as can be seen running arcadeos from within windows 98 dos command prompt.  I cannot stop using pure DOS because there are some games that simply have poor frame rates while runnigin in Win98. Also I do like the ease of shutdown in DOS.

Title: Re: ATI rage pro with Asus MB issue Help!
Post by: epic69 on September 19, 2005, 05:15:51 pm

I am still researching this issue and have not found a resolution. Can anybody suggest some possible avenues i can look at for this?

Title: Re: ATI rage pro with Asus MB issue Help!
Post by: epic69 on October 26, 2005, 09:16:29 am

I am still looking for a solution to this. Anybody have any ideas?  Thanks Everybody!