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Rick Parker
I'm having a problems with WinXP (Home). I fried my NVIDIA TNT2 AGP card
when it's fan failed. The system would still work sort of the video display
was just very slow. In looking into the problem when checking the hardware
manager I found that the list didn't include display adapters any more.
That's when I dug into the hardware and found the fried video card. I
replaced the NVIDA TNT2 AGP card with a new ATI 9550 AGP card and booted the
system.
The first time while things worked much better it didn't detect the new
video card and the video adapter didn't show up. I played around and now
the Hardware Manager does show a display adapter, but it's unknown. I tried
to install the drivers and other software and keep getting the message that
it can't be done. I've tried to install it several times plus tried to
update the driver etc. It won't let me.
The old NVIDA drivers are still on the hard disk. I haven't removed them.
The programs for that card don't show up when I run the Add or Remove
Programs portion of the Control Panel. I was going to remove them after
booting into Safe Mode but I can't boot to safe mode for some reason. The
arrow keys on my Microsoft Office Keyboard won't work when the boot up menu
that allows you to choose Safe Mode.
I checked the System Info Tool and the Display Component is unknown but in
the Device Driver section it shows NV and NV4 which are NVIDIA drivers.
I thought about booting from the CD and repairing WinXP. I changed the BIOS
to boot first from the CD then HDD and then Floppy. When I rebooted the CD
lights come on but the system automatically loads WinXP. I set the BIOS
boot up sequence to CD for each of the options. I get a message that hit any
key to boot from the CD and when I hit a key it still boots from the HD and
boots up WinXP.
I have everything backed up and can format and reinstall everything but that
's a real pain. I'd like to avoid that option if I can. Any ideas of what
I should try and in what order before I reformat and reinstall everything?
My inital thought is to use Explorer to delete the Nvidia files and see what
happens. But I don't know if that's the best thing to do.
when it's fan failed. The system would still work sort of the video display
was just very slow. In looking into the problem when checking the hardware
manager I found that the list didn't include display adapters any more.
That's when I dug into the hardware and found the fried video card. I
replaced the NVIDA TNT2 AGP card with a new ATI 9550 AGP card and booted the
system.
The first time while things worked much better it didn't detect the new
video card and the video adapter didn't show up. I played around and now
the Hardware Manager does show a display adapter, but it's unknown. I tried
to install the drivers and other software and keep getting the message that
it can't be done. I've tried to install it several times plus tried to
update the driver etc. It won't let me.
The old NVIDA drivers are still on the hard disk. I haven't removed them.
The programs for that card don't show up when I run the Add or Remove
Programs portion of the Control Panel. I was going to remove them after
booting into Safe Mode but I can't boot to safe mode for some reason. The
arrow keys on my Microsoft Office Keyboard won't work when the boot up menu
that allows you to choose Safe Mode.
I checked the System Info Tool and the Display Component is unknown but in
the Device Driver section it shows NV and NV4 which are NVIDIA drivers.
I thought about booting from the CD and repairing WinXP. I changed the BIOS
to boot first from the CD then HDD and then Floppy. When I rebooted the CD
lights come on but the system automatically loads WinXP. I set the BIOS
boot up sequence to CD for each of the options. I get a message that hit any
key to boot from the CD and when I hit a key it still boots from the HD and
boots up WinXP.
I have everything backed up and can format and reinstall everything but that
's a real pain. I'd like to avoid that option if I can. Any ideas of what
I should try and in what order before I reformat and reinstall everything?
My inital thought is to use Explorer to delete the Nvidia files and see what
happens. But I don't know if that's the best thing to do.