ATI Rage II drivers should work.  There are a lot of reasons why win95 won't
load the display driver.  Since win95 is a witch's brew of 16 bit and 32 bit
code, sometimes a problem using 32 bit code prevents enhanced performance
features from loading.  That would mean you have a deeper problem than just
the driver.

You don't say how you loaded the driver.  Some cards were particular about
how the driver was installed especially if the plug and play was less than
perfect.  You can try loading it through device manager, or deleting the
video entry in device manager and running the 'add hardware' wizard.  If you
had the STD cd, it may have had a setup.exe routine.

One thing I strongly suggest is testing the system with a win98 install.
Win98 should detect and load an acceptable driver for your card
automatically from its own driver library on the cd.  If this works, at
least the card has been certified as being in working order.  It also gets
around the problem of finding STD.

I run dos games on win98 systems.  If you don't have any sound problems,
then you should stick with win98 for this system.  Sound drivers could be
the only issue under win98 for your dos games.

Tom Turak

-----Original Message-----
From: vlsideband [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 2:50 AM

Hello,
I have a few questions hopefully someone on the list can answer.
I recently bought a IBM Aptive 200 Mhz MMX, Model 2159 S90 computer from
someone (I wanted a retro XMAS...lol). ......
Windows 95 booted up fine, everything
was back to normal except the Video Card. I could not get anything other
than standard VGA 16 colors. Went on the net and researched the Card that
was orginally installed per IBM,  an ATI Rage II. Downloaded the drivers and
installed them. No change. Downloaded Belarc Advisor to try to identify the
card, it stated a ATI Rage II was installed. Still standard VGA. When I
pulled the Video Card it is a STD Systems, Inc. card made in 1998.( My new
troubleshooting rule: Know what you're working with first, it might save an
extra days work ). This computer was made in 1996 so a pervious owner must
have installed a new card.
Now what I know about Video Cards wouldn't fill a thimble. How do I identify
this card to find what drivers to use? There's no model number on the card
anywhere. The headsink on the chip totally covers it so I can't get the
number off the chip to use that in my search. There's a few stickers on the
card with various numbers:  210-347-00, 1x0-695-008, 1B 46 1998. Another
sticker with V 41316. All a mystery to me.
Or should I just bite the bullet on this one, toss the card, and try to find
one on Ebay or the net that would work with this machine, and save myself
any more headaches and what hair I have left. And if that's the case, what
card(s) would you recommend for a machine of this age?
Any answers/help would be greatly appreciated.

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