8kha+, sapphire radeon 9500 installation, agartd.vxd, woes...

What device is associated with agartd.vxd. It's in the sys.ini or
registry and when i boot I'm told this file is missing and that i
should either remove the device, or reinstall it? This, subsequent to
installing a Sapphire radeon 9500 and fiddling around....
Also, why do I have a secondary 9500 display adapter in device
manager, and a default monitor in addition to my samsung monitor in
device manager. If i remove them, I'm prompted to reinstall on boot
up. See what trouble I can get myself into?
OS win98se

 

hi

agartd.vxd is the agp "gart" driver responsible for the administration of
memmory between agp/chipset. try to reinstall chipset drivers and vga
drivers. ati radeon card do have two display adapters showing up in the
device manager, dont remove them, one is default ond one is secondary! for
easy operation move the monitor to the default one.

coco

 

hi

did you use the proper way of swapping gf cards? first uninstall drivers in
add/remove but dont reboot! go to device manager and select "remove" -> shut
down, swap graphics cards. turn on computer and let windows/bios detect the
new one...!?
i think you can select "standard vga" in win9x also....

coco

 

Download 'detonator-destroyer.zip' from a files site (I think I got mine
from
3d-guru.com) and follow the guidance in its help readme.

HTH