Problem with GeForce 2 Pro

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I picked up an old system (a Systemax with an AMD 900, 128 ram) and it had
an old ATI Rage Pro card with 8 megs of ram. I took that out and put in the
Geforce 2 Pro card with 64 megs.

It booted up fine (WinXP Pro), but when I installed the drivers and
rebooted, I lose video (monitor shuts down) after the XP Pro screen. The
Welcome screen doesn't display, which is the first screen at the desktop
resolution. I can boot up in safe mode at 800x600, I've tried the newest
drivers from Nvidia and the drivers on Windows Update.

I have a disk with older drivers on it, I'll probably try them next. I
also tried turning down the hardware acceleration, to no effect.

Any ideas? TIA.
 

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"teqguy" <teqguy@techie.com> wrote in message
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> Bill wrote:
>
> > I picked up an old system (a Systemax with an AMD 900, 128 ram) and
> > it had an old ATI Rage Pro card with 8 megs of ram. I took that out
> > and put in the Geforce 2 Pro card with 64 megs.
> >
> > It booted up fine (WinXP Pro), but when I installed the drivers and
> > rebooted, I lose video (monitor shuts down) after the XP Pro screen.
> > The Welcome screen doesn't display, which is the first screen at the
> > desktop resolution. I can boot up in safe mode at 800x600, I've tried
> > the newest drivers from Nvidia and the drivers on Windows Update.
> >
> > I have a disk with older drivers on it, I'll probably try them next.
> > I also tried turning down the hardware acceleration, to no effect.
> >
> > Any ideas? TIA.
>
>
>
>
>
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> PCI or AGP?
>
>
>
> If it's an AGP card, make sure the board supports AGP4x.

It's AGP. I'll check into it, good idea!
 
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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:15:10 GMT As truth resonates honesty "Bill"
<willat@optonline.net> wrote :

>I picked up an old system (a Systemax with an AMD 900, 128 ram) and it had
>an old ATI Rage Pro card with 8 megs of ram. I took that out and put in the
>Geforce 2 Pro card with 64 megs.
>
> It booted up fine (WinXP Pro), but when I installed the drivers and
>rebooted, I lose video (monitor shuts down) after the XP Pro screen. The
>Welcome screen doesn't display, which is the first screen at the desktop
>resolution. I can boot up in safe mode at 800x600, I've tried the newest
>drivers from Nvidia and the drivers on Windows Update.
>
> I have a disk with older drivers on it, I'll probably try them next. I
>also tried turning down the hardware acceleration, to no effect.
>
>Any ideas? TIA.

WinXP is a very silly O/S by,"Default".It will re-boot/shutdown if it
can't figure things out(which of course it can't).
To give yourself a fighting chance when in,"safemode" go,
My Computer/Right click/Properties/Advanced/Startup and
Recovery/Settings and switch off the very very silly,"Automatically
Restart".
Yet another MS innovation to give work to Computer,"Techs" ;-)



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Shep) wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:15:10 GMT As truth resonates honesty "Bill"
> <willat@optonline.net> wrote :
>
> > I picked up an old system (a Systemax with an AMD 900, 128 ram) and
> > it had an old ATI Rage Pro card with 8 megs of ram. I took that out
> > and put in the Geforce 2 Pro card with 64 megs.
> >
> > It booted up fine (WinXP Pro), but when I installed the drivers and
> > rebooted, I lose video (monitor shuts down) after the XP Pro
> > screen. The Welcome screen doesn't display, which is the first
> > screen at the desktop resolution. I can boot up in safe mode at
> > 800x600, I've tried the newest drivers from Nvidia and the drivers
> > on Windows Update.
> >
> > I have a disk with older drivers on it, I'll probably try them
> > next. I also tried turning down the hardware acceleration, to no
> > effect.
> >
> > Any ideas? TIA.
>
> WinXP is a very silly O/S by,"Default".It will re-boot/shutdown if it
> can't figure things out(which of course it can't).
> To give yourself a fighting chance when in,"safemode" go,
> My Computer/Right click/Properties/Advanced/Startup and
> Recovery/Settings and switch off the very very silly,"Automatically
> Restart".
> Yet another MS innovation to give work to Computer,"Techs" ;-)




Shouldn't cause an issue like that.



That restart feature is only if the GUI crashes, very rarely does it
happen spontaneously if nothing is actually wrong.
 

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Bill wrote:

>
> "teqguy" <teqguy@techie.com> wrote in message
> news:5bVfc.1706$L31.1606@nwrddc01.gnilink.net...
> > Bill wrote:
> >
> > > I picked up an old system (a Systemax with an AMD 900, 128 ram)
> > > and it had an old ATI Rage Pro card with 8 megs of ram. I took
> > > that out and put in the Geforce 2 Pro card with 64 megs.
> > >
> > > It booted up fine (WinXP Pro), but when I installed the drivers
> > > and rebooted, I lose video (monitor shuts down) after the XP Pro
> > > screen. The Welcome screen doesn't display, which is the first
> > > screen at the desktop resolution. I can boot up in safe mode at
> > > 800x600, I've tried the newest drivers from Nvidia and the
> > > drivers on Windows Update.
> > >
> > > I have a disk with older drivers on it, I'll probably try them
> > > next. I also tried turning down the hardware acceleration, to no
> > > effect.
> > >
> > > Any ideas? TIA.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > PCI or AGP?
> >
> >
> >
> > If it's an AGP card, make sure the board supports AGP4x.
>
> It's AGP. I'll check into it, good idea!







If it does support AGP4x, you need a patch to fix an AMD & XP issue
with AGP.



Normally this issue doesn't affect installation, but greatly affects
performance.
 

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with an old system like - particularly with only 128mb ram
you'd be better off sticking in win98se or winme

"Bill" <willat@optonline.net> wrote in message
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> I picked up an old system (a Systemax with an AMD 900, 128 ram) and it had
> an old ATI Rage Pro card with 8 megs of ram. I took that out and put in
the
> Geforce 2 Pro card with 64 megs.
>
> It booted up fine (WinXP Pro), but when I installed the drivers and
> rebooted, I lose video (monitor shuts down) after the XP Pro screen. The
> Welcome screen doesn't display, which is the first screen at the desktop
> resolution. I can boot up in safe mode at 800x600, I've tried the newest
> drivers from Nvidia and the drivers on Windows Update.
>
> I have a disk with older drivers on it, I'll probably try them next. I
> also tried turning down the hardware acceleration, to no effect.
>
> Any ideas? TIA.
>
>