My G400 don't work with DirectX

[tonigreco]

Hi, here my system:
-Main Board 6ABX2V/6AZX2V ATX form factor
-Pentium III 500 Mhz 64 Mb RAM
-HD 10 GB
-Matrox Millenium G400 DualHead 32 Mb with
driver 5.30
-Sound Blaster Live with driver 3.0
-Windows 98 SE
-DirectX 6.1

and here the problem:
all the games that use Direct3D (DirectX)
don't work, the screen become black for
few seconds (matrox demo too) and then
it end e comeback to desktop.
With all Direct3D demos from Microsoft I
see fatal error in D3Dim.dll.

With opengl (Quake III Arena test)
it work fine.

In the store where I buy the computer
they don't find the way to solve this problem, please help me.

Thank you very much and excuse me for my
bad english.


Toni Greco
grecoton@tin.it
http://space.tin.it/computer/tgreco/
http://members.xoom.com/grecotoni/

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[Smiff]

Install DirectX 7:
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...US/DX70eng.exe

And see what that does

[Echo|Fox]

Failing all else, a nice reinstall of Windows might be in order.
If its been longer than 6 months since the last time you reformatted, its long overdue anyway. I've seen wierdness like this, and frankly, its less aggravating just starting from scratch (After backing up your data of course) than it is wracking your brain trying to figure out what's conflicting with what.
It sounds to me like you added the G400 to replace some other video card, right? If so, there are probably residiual drivers from the previous card lurking about somewhere. This is why it's always reccomended that you uninstall any such drivers and resetting to Standard VGA before installing a new video card.
It does suck having to reformat, but such is our punishment for living under microsoft's regime. I've never seen anything acquire bloat quite like windows does.

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P3-450@558mhz@2.1v, ABit BE6, 128megs 7.3125ns PC133 SDRAM, SB Live! Value, G400 32meg Dualhead (@120%), Acer ALN-201 PCI 10bT NIC, 6.5gig Seagate Medalist Pro 7200rpm, 13gig Quantum Fireball CR, Yamaha 4416e Burner, Pioneer 10x DVD-ROM, Panasonic e70 17" Monitor, Antec KS-188 24" Tower, 6 year old Honeywell-SUH 101key Keyboard, Logitech Trackman Marble+

[tonigreco]

I have buy this new computer this days,
with G400 and SB Live already on board,
I am not changed video card.
First of all thank you friends for your
help.

I will try also DirectX 7.

Now the PC is back to store, they are trying
to fix the problem, but after one week
the problem is again there.

Mybe mather board problem conflicts?

Bye
Toni

[space7]

tonigreco. When you say after one week the problem is ther. Are you trying to say that you "re-take" your system from the store and they pretend that they fix the problem, and after one week, the problem re-start again ?
Just curiosity are you Greeck ?

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Sorry for my English.
A G400 in a new G4 have wing's

[tonigreco]

I wanna mean that the computer is still
in the store, now too, and when I phone
to them their answer is:
"we are trying to fix the problem, but
until now all our work don't fix the problem,
we try other ways next days, call us again"

I am from Italy

Ciao

Toni Greco

[tonigreco]

Hi,

at the end my G400 and SB Live on
P III 500 Mhz work fine now.

At the store they installed again
Window 98 SE then the drivers.
Also AGP size 256.

Thank to all

Bye
Toni