White screen

[Nich]

I have an independantly-built Pentium 4 1.6 Northwood on
an Intel 850MV motherboard with 512M RDRAM and an Asylum
(made by BFGtech) GeForce 4 Ti 4200 with 128 MB of
DDRAM. When I try to play graphics-intense games such as
Nascar Thunder 2003, Rise of Nations, or Tiger Woods
2004, the game starts to load fine, but then turns to a
mostly white screen with only a few colors. The cursor
can be seen as a large box. After a few seconds, the
system locks up and requires a hard reset. I have
flashed the system BIOS, updated the nVidia drivers to
version 45.23, which supports Direct X 9.0. I have
DirectX 9.0b. I am running Windows XP Professional (5.1,
Build 2600). I have tried changing all of the drivers
and DirectX properties to no avail. Does anyone have any
other suggestions?

 

[Jimmy S.]

Hi Nich,

The only thing missing from the list of things you've tried was
upgrading of the Intel Chipset drivers. Have you tried that yet?

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| I have an independantly-built Pentium 4 1.6 Northwood on
| an Intel 850MV motherboard with 512M RDRAM and an Asylum
| (made by BFGtech) GeForce 4 Ti 4200 with 128 MB of
| DDRAM. When I try to play graphics-intense games such as
| Nascar Thunder 2003, Rise of Nations, or Tiger Woods
| 2004, the game starts to load fine, but then turns to a
| mostly white screen with only a few colors. The cursor
| can be seen as a large box. After a few seconds, the
| system locks up and requires a hard reset. I have
| flashed the system BIOS, updated the nVidia drivers to
| version 45.23, which supports Direct X 9.0. I have
| DirectX 9.0b. I am running Windows XP Professional (5.1,
| Build 2600). I have tried changing all of the drivers
| and DirectX properties to no avail. Does anyone have any
| other suggestions?

 

[Nich]

Tried it, and it didn't help. Thanks though.

 

[Jimmy S.]

You're welcome Nich. If you want to try some more
troubleshooting steps however, I have a Checklist of
Solutions at: http://NibblesNbitsVideo.tk

--
Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Game FAQs: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;[LN];gms
Visit my Zone.com / Gaming Helpsite: http://nibblesnbits.tk or Call / Contact
MS Support at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=sz;en-us;top
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________

| Tried it, and it didn't help. Thanks though.