I bought a new Geforce4 ti4200 128mb (Leadtek A280le-TDH) card to upgrade my old Geforce2 gts 64mb card. However, after spending over 3 hours screwing around with it - I can't get it to work.
Here is my system details:
Asus PC3-2000 MB
Intel P3-800E
250W PSU
512mb Ram
Win98 (2nd edition - all updates installed)
My old card was running the Nvidia reference drivers, v4345, and was running just fine.
To install the new card, I first uninstalled the Nvidia drivers (using add/remove programs), shut down the computer, and put in the new card. When I boot up, it got to the windows blue screen, and crashed. So I tried booting in safe mode. Again, within 30 seconds of being in safe mode, I would get a blue screen fatal exception error and crash. After this, I couldn't boot up at all (other than command prompt). Sooo I put the old video card back in, reinstalled its drivers, and started over again.
On the second try around, I made it as far as booting up (in normal mode) and getting the drivers half way installed, before I got the same sort of fatal exception error. Tried booting in same mode, got the registry restore screen, reboot again, crash again, etc. Sooo back in goes the old card
Third time around, I actually managed to get the new drivers fully installed (w00t!). I reboot, and instead of coming up with the nice blue windows background, the computer powered itself off! Tried booting again, this time I got a funny blue line of garbage along the top edge of monitor. Reboot again, got fatal exception errors.
Sooo I had to put my old card back in and am running on that for now. Any ideas what might be wrong?
Some possible things that came across my mind are:
- My MB is AGP4x... the card is AGP8x... I thought you could use a AGP8 with an AGP4 board, but just didn't get the faster throughput - is that correct?
- Is my 250W PSU enough? Maybe could that be the problem?
- The new video card is maybe defective?
- If is some bizzaro win98 driver problem? Maybe upgrading to WinXP would solve it? The driver I was using was Leadtek driver off the CDRom that came with card (for Windows 98)
Help!!
Here is my system details:
Asus PC3-2000 MB
Intel P3-800E
250W PSU
512mb Ram
Win98 (2nd edition - all updates installed)
My old card was running the Nvidia reference drivers, v4345, and was running just fine.
To install the new card, I first uninstalled the Nvidia drivers (using add/remove programs), shut down the computer, and put in the new card. When I boot up, it got to the windows blue screen, and crashed. So I tried booting in safe mode. Again, within 30 seconds of being in safe mode, I would get a blue screen fatal exception error and crash. After this, I couldn't boot up at all (other than command prompt). Sooo I put the old video card back in, reinstalled its drivers, and started over again.
On the second try around, I made it as far as booting up (in normal mode) and getting the drivers half way installed, before I got the same sort of fatal exception error. Tried booting in same mode, got the registry restore screen, reboot again, crash again, etc. Sooo back in goes the old card
Third time around, I actually managed to get the new drivers fully installed (w00t!). I reboot, and instead of coming up with the nice blue windows background, the computer powered itself off! Tried booting again, this time I got a funny blue line of garbage along the top edge of monitor. Reboot again, got fatal exception errors.
Sooo I had to put my old card back in and am running on that for now. Any ideas what might be wrong?
Some possible things that came across my mind are:
- My MB is AGP4x... the card is AGP8x... I thought you could use a AGP8 with an AGP4 board, but just didn't get the faster throughput - is that correct?
- Is my 250W PSU enough? Maybe could that be the problem?
- The new video card is maybe defective?
- If is some bizzaro win98 driver problem? Maybe upgrading to WinXP would solve it? The driver I was using was Leadtek driver off the CDRom that came with card (for Windows 98)
Help!!
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