My whole problem is....... I have all these 3D programs that I ran
before this problem occured. I had formatted my PC and when I enabled
my NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 AGP 128MB graphics card and I went to a high
resolution the screen would flicker and blink on and off and after
about 15-20 seconds the whole pc crashes. The only way I could boot
back up was to start up in safe mode and disable the device and reboot.
I've tried updatig drivers and none of that seems to work. I've checked
all the bios settings that I know of and they all seem normal. I'm
wondering if the card itself just went bad. If so, do any of you know
how I can find that out. The other thing that I was thinking was, if
the AGP slot went bad on the motherboard. Since it is the only slot I'm
not sure how to check that without buying a new AGP card and testing
it. I hoping that there is something that I missed and someone has a
suggestion or two.

Did you remember to install the motherboard chipset utility drivers?
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Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging



"tburroughs11" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> My whole problem is....... I have all these 3D programs that I ran
> before this problem occured. I had formatted my PC and when I enabled
> my NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 AGP 128MB graphics card and I went to a high
> resolution the screen would flicker and blink on and off and after
> about 15-20 seconds the whole pc crashes. The only way I could boot
> back up was to start up in safe mode and disable the device and reboot.
> I've tried updatig drivers and none of that seems to work. I've checked
> all the bios settings that I know of and they all seem normal. I'm
> wondering if the card itself just went bad. If so, do any of you know
> how I can find that out. The other thing that I was thinking was, if
> the AGP slot went bad on the motherboard. Since it is the only slot I'm
> not sure how to check that without buying a new AGP card and testing
> it. I hoping that there is something that I missed and someone has a
> suggestion or two.
>

I reinstalled all of the motherboard drivers and the problem is still
there. When I installed the drivers and rebooted the computer crashd on
reboot. I disabled the card again in safe mode and rebooted. When I
reabled the card it was fine until I opened a 3D program. Then it
messed my screen all up and acted like it was about to crash again when
I killed the program. The odd thing was that the screen never changed.
It stayed about 30 different colors until I rebooted with the card
disabled.