neomystery
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alright, this is a strange mystery for me that i can't solve, though i am very hopeful
when i bought my dell latitude cpi A400XT, it had windows 2000 on it and the direct3d was fine......i used playstation and n64 emulators with thier direct3d plugins and all was fine....then, stupid me, taking '2000 off and putting 98 on thier instead, poof, bye bye direct3d....to make things worse, i lost the cdkey for my dell product cd
i have installed, 98, 2000 and xp on my machine, used the drivers from dell and still no direct3d
i've read all over the net, some saying neomagic 256av doesn't support direct3d, others saying it does....specs of computers with the neomagic 256av say that they have both direct3d and opengl support
i theorize that either i need a specific driver version or version of directx or possibly a combination, i did read something about a press release stating that neomagic, newly, at one time, was making thier stuff direct 7 compliant
a friend said to me "windows 2000 is a very diferent animal than the other versions of windows...hardware can be optimized under windows 2000"....and windows 2000 must be something special, i read that the xbox uses a stripped down win2k kernel
the guy that sold me the notebook said briefly "you only get direct3d under windows 2000" and then he offered me a new product cd wich i didn't think i needed at the time (i was two states away and planning to buy a windows 2000 disc myself"
i've exhausted every idea i can come up with....i suppose my last effort would be getting another product cd and installing 2000 from that........unless someone else has had a dell lattitude cpi A400XT and grappled with this before?
this is my first notebook, i don't want to dump it right away just because i can't get the direct3d going again, with some more ram and a bigger hard drive, i want to be using this notebook for a few more years,
thanks y'all,
-Johnnie
when i bought my dell latitude cpi A400XT, it had windows 2000 on it and the direct3d was fine......i used playstation and n64 emulators with thier direct3d plugins and all was fine....then, stupid me, taking '2000 off and putting 98 on thier instead, poof, bye bye direct3d....to make things worse, i lost the cdkey for my dell product cd
i have installed, 98, 2000 and xp on my machine, used the drivers from dell and still no direct3d
i've read all over the net, some saying neomagic 256av doesn't support direct3d, others saying it does....specs of computers with the neomagic 256av say that they have both direct3d and opengl support
i theorize that either i need a specific driver version or version of directx or possibly a combination, i did read something about a press release stating that neomagic, newly, at one time, was making thier stuff direct 7 compliant
a friend said to me "windows 2000 is a very diferent animal than the other versions of windows...hardware can be optimized under windows 2000"....and windows 2000 must be something special, i read that the xbox uses a stripped down win2k kernel
the guy that sold me the notebook said briefly "you only get direct3d under windows 2000" and then he offered me a new product cd wich i didn't think i needed at the time (i was two states away and planning to buy a windows 2000 disc myself"
i've exhausted every idea i can come up with....i suppose my last effort would be getting another product cd and installing 2000 from that........unless someone else has had a dell lattitude cpi A400XT and grappled with this before?
this is my first notebook, i don't want to dump it right away just because i can't get the direct3d going again, with some more ram and a bigger hard drive, i want to be using this notebook for a few more years,
thanks y'all,
-Johnnie