Hello, I installed Win98 last night, and everything was fine, but it did not recognize/see my AGP video card. It loaded standard PCI VGA drivers. I removed the display adapter in device manager and rebooted. When 98 came on it saw new hardware, but it wasn't AGP, it was asking for the drivers to a PCI Video. My bios is set to recognize AGP as the graphics card. I installed all the motherboard drivers, including the AGP, but it still won't see the card. Any ideas. The card is a geforce 4mx from gainward. It worked fine under win2000.

The motherboard CD only set up the motherboard AGP stuff. You still have to install the drivers for the card.

Yeah, I did that too. When I put the Geforce disc into my cdrom, it started up, and the an error came up saying something like "There is no device availbale" I don't remember the exact words, but it was basically saying that it wasn't going to install the drivers because it did not see the device to begin with. Shouldn't win98 SE notice that you have an AGP slot upon installation, or is this a problem with win98 SE?

Any video chipset that 98 doesn't recongize, whether it's ISA, PCI or AGP will be initially set up with one of the generic VGA drivers. The fact it's calling it a PCI adapter is irrelevent. So I don't think the problem is with 98. What video adapter shows in device manager now? Sometimes video drivers won't install unless the adapter is identified as one of the generic ones. If you've changed that you need to go back and install the Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA). Then reboot and try installing the nvidia drivers.

What motherboard are you using? What chipset does it have? I'm not sure of what order you did things so to clarify...to install an AGP card (done this about 2 dozen times) on a Win98 system with a Via chipset (others are similiar) you would: Install Win98 Install chipset drivers (Via 4 in 1 drivers) reboot it should autodetect and ask for the Nvidia driver disk. Win2000 and XP have support for most motherboards so all you'd need is the Nvidia disk. I wouldn't bother going into device manager until after you've installed the correct chipset drivers as without them a lot of devices won't install and you'll probably not get the AGP to work. Now, to fix this, if you installed the Nvidia drivers before the chipset drivers you may have to reinstall Windows again. Good luck, Dan