Video Card driver won't install

[Guest]

I came in to work this morning, booted my system and it was in 640x480.
Logged in and was able to jump up to 600x800 (and beyond) so that was good.
Problem is that the refresh rate was way low and is hurting my eyes. I
checked in Device Mgr and it has a ! by it. Properties says this:
"Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be
corrupted or missing. (Code 39)"
So I removed the Video Card and replaced it with a known good nVidia TNT2.
Same problem. Uninstalled all video components I could find in safe mode,
reboot and still no joy. Put a PCI video card in just to see if it has to do
with the Motherboard but it still will not allow me to load a driver. I
reinstalled DX9c and that did not help either. DxDiags reports that the
directx.cpl is old but I have no clue how to reinstall that alone.

If anyone can help with this one, I buy lunch in San Diego..;-]

JohnS

 

[Guest]

For any video adapter you need to ununstall the on-board video first,if
you have one.Chk in the BIOS,see where the settings are,change if needed,as
you install any card this is youre first stop before xp loads.If no cards
install on
a board w/o on-board video,you may have a faulty board,ecspecially after
several cards,several attemps.For direct x,go to downloads at microsoft,the
newest is version 9.0c i believe.See ya at pacific beach !!

 

[Guest]

Andrew,

Thanks for the reply. I already did install/reinstall DX9c. This is a MSI
KT4AV and has no on-board video. Checked all relevant BIOS settings and all
is set normal. This is a very weird problem since when you go to display
properties, advanced and update the driver, it says the driver loaded ok but
it could not find the hardware! This is with an ATI, nVidia and a Diamond
card. I have uninstalled, reinstalled till I am on the verge of FORMAT C:

For any video adapter you need to ununstall the on-board video first,if
you have one.Chk in the BIOS,see where the settings are,change if needed,as
you install any card this is youre first stop before xp loads.If no cards
install on
a board w/o on-board video,you may have a faulty board,ecspecially after
several cards,several attemps.For direct x,go to downloads at microsoft,the
newest is version 9.0c i believe.See ya at pacific beach !!

I came in to work this morning, booted my system and it was in 640x480.
Logged in and was able to jump up to 600x800 (and beyond) so that was good.
Problem is that the refresh rate was way low and is hurting my eyes. I
checked in Device Mgr and it has a ! by it. Properties says this:
"Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be
corrupted or missing. (Code 39)"
So I removed the Video Card and replaced it with a known good nVidia TNT2.
Same problem. Uninstalled all video components I could find in safe mode,
reboot and still no joy. Put a PCI video card in just to see if it has to do
with the Motherboard but it still will not allow me to load a driver. I
reinstalled DX9c and that did not help either. DxDiags reports that the
directx.cpl is old but I have no clue how to reinstall that alone.

If anyone can help with this one, I buy lunch in San Diego..;-]

JohnS