Problem ATI All-in-Wonder

[z1p]

I'm trying to move my ATI All-in-Wonder video card form an Old PC (was running win98 SE) to another PC (running win98 SE). Every time I install the card and drivers, the PC hangs on boot.

I have tried the drivers that came with the card and the two latest drivers for it and I get the same result.

The PC I'm trying to get in ito is a gateway PIII 850 running win98 SE. Right now it has a cheap nvidia AGP video card. I'm don't know what to try next.

I have deinstall and reistalled various times. Tried 3 different drivers. Moved it up on the PCI slots, so that it is in the first slot.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

[Miz]

Please don't take this as an insult...but stranger things have happened. The new card you're trying to install is a PCI card, right? (Yes, I've seen AGP cards in PCI slots and PCI cards whittled down to fit into AGP slots and even RAM modules hammered into PCI slots...no, they don't fit well at all ;) )

Boot the computer into Safe Mode with the old AGP card in. Go into Device Manager, expand Display Adapters, right click on the Nvidia card listed and left click on Remove. Tell it OK when it asks for confirmation. Do not reboot but, rather, shut the computer down.

Take the AGP card out, insert the PCI card, (reconnecting the monitor to the new card, of course), boot up. See if it will install.

It should work but if it doesn't you've lost nothing but time. You can shut down, replace the old card and it will reinstall when you boot back up.

[z1p]

No insult taken, I've dealt with many PEBKACs myself. Definite PCI card...
I believe I've done these steps in this order, but I'll give it a try and see how it goes.

D*&^, I hate it when windows does this. It should be simple, but its not.

thx.
-z1p

[z1p]

Just got around to working on it this weekend. Tried your suggestion Miz and no luck. This is a real pain in the a##. I tried several interations through this and have managed to get a little farther along.

I removed all the video devices and their drivers (ATI's software is a pain, in that it cannot be removed unless the card is actually in the machine. Now who would want to remove software for a video card they don't have in their machine anymore. I must be odd, because I'd like to be able to do it. )

Back, to my problem. I followed Miz's suggestion. No luck. I installed the directx 8's video capture update (the fix should have been in directx 9, but I figured it couldn't hurt ;) I installed the latest drivers and software. Now it
boots finds the video card for the first time and installs the drivers, reboots to finish the installation and hangs. A dialog comes ups saying found unknown hardare, then switches to installing ATI WDM Rage Theater video. This is where it either hangs or blue screens (sorry don't know the codes that come up, when I try again I'll get them and post back.)


I get the feeling that this is a problem area for ATI from the various posts I've seen. I believe They have a set of drivers without the video capture, I may give it a try. Any suggestions, etc are appreciated. I know its most likely worth all the time I've put into it, but now its getting personal (I don't like to lose, especially to a PC ;)