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Weird driver issue on Win 98 /w a Geforce 2 MX

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Keiron

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New Haven, CT
I recently revived my 233 Cyrix box for folding and music fileserving. However, after updating it with everything windows could throw at it and installing VNC (it's going to be a VNC box), I noticed that the box was running 16 color (not 16 bit) and 640x480, which is the standard for the "Windows standard AGP video card" driver. So I tried to update the driver, big mistake. The system woudn't run with it and I had to use safe mode to boot and have a visable screen. I know the card works, as I installed Mandrake 10 on it and it worked fine, but it is WAY to slow for Mandrake and I don't have the time/patience for a Gentoo install on this slug.
I have tried the drivers it came with ("Winfast" Geforce 2 MX drivers by leadtek) that it worked with it before I formatted it (the system previously was at my grandmothers house, but I built her a 1.4 Ghz system as this thing is just painfully slow for anything). But they lead to the same result as the new Nvidia drivers.
Anyone have any ideas about how I can get this box to work a little better?
 
I've been having the same problem with a 98se printserver I just set up. I'm using a Diamond Multimedia 2600 or something like that, it's really old school and runs about the same resolution.

If I come up with anything I'll post...
 
Glad to know that at least I'm not the only one. Anyone have any ideas how to counter this problem? I'm going to be stuck using this thing (I don't dare call it a system) untill my RMA'd mobo from Newegg is back.
 
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