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This seems to be the most appropriate forum to
post this in - but if i'm wrong, please point me to the right place.
I recently got a MSI GeForce4 MX 440 board,
and installed it in a new system i built.
However, i'm having problems getting it working.
The machine is an AMD 2000+ processor with
a gigabyte motherboard, with AGP x 4 capability,
a gig of ram, a HD, CDR, floppy, and one PCI card - a soundcard, which i haven't installed yet. I have a Philips 107T Monitor, which worked fine with an old system. I'm running Win98 (not SE).
Basically, the system works aside from the videocard.
I try to install the video card, it installs the driver.
Then i try to change the video mode to something more than 16 color 640x480, it asks me to restart. I do,
and it either gives me a windows protection fault, or it just restarts automatically, and won't boot fine
unless i go to safe mode. Unless i switch to a standard vga adapter for the display, it will do the same thing every time i restart.
First, i tried running all the windows98 updates.
Then i downloaded the newest nvidia driver 30.00.
Restarted, and it does the same exact thing. I tried
to re-seat the video card, same thing happens.
It definitely displays - i'm using it right now in 16 color mode, but it won't actually run in any other mode,
or really even let you install it.
Anybody have ideas?
My thoughts are:
- try a newer OS (although the box says it works with win95/98 and more)
- try to swap it with another video card and see how my machine handles it - which is a problem since i don't have any others sitting around
email me if you have a good solution - cutup@andythepooh.com
thanks very much!
post this in - but if i'm wrong, please point me to the right place.
I recently got a MSI GeForce4 MX 440 board,
and installed it in a new system i built.
However, i'm having problems getting it working.
The machine is an AMD 2000+ processor with
a gigabyte motherboard, with AGP x 4 capability,
a gig of ram, a HD, CDR, floppy, and one PCI card - a soundcard, which i haven't installed yet. I have a Philips 107T Monitor, which worked fine with an old system. I'm running Win98 (not SE).
Basically, the system works aside from the videocard.
I try to install the video card, it installs the driver.
Then i try to change the video mode to something more than 16 color 640x480, it asks me to restart. I do,
and it either gives me a windows protection fault, or it just restarts automatically, and won't boot fine
unless i go to safe mode. Unless i switch to a standard vga adapter for the display, it will do the same thing every time i restart.
First, i tried running all the windows98 updates.
Then i downloaded the newest nvidia driver 30.00.
Restarted, and it does the same exact thing. I tried
to re-seat the video card, same thing happens.
It definitely displays - i'm using it right now in 16 color mode, but it won't actually run in any other mode,
or really even let you install it.
Anybody have ideas?
My thoughts are:
- try a newer OS (although the box says it works with win95/98 and more)
- try to swap it with another video card and see how my machine handles it - which is a problem since i don't have any others sitting around
email me if you have a good solution - cutup@andythepooh.com
thanks very much!
