Direct3d wont run in dxdiag test it fails saying a key pressed .

[Guest]

My Sister has a Home built pc consisting of Asus P4S800 Motherboard, onboard
sound , 512mg ram , 2 maxtor 120 mg harddrives , 2dvd drives , 1 floppy
drive , Generic Geforce2 mx/mx400 64meg graphics card .. winxp prof ( sp2
applied) directx9c installed


Machine as run for several month no problems . Since trying to use directx
games have found they are not working . Just trying to get Majhonng
playing but all driect3d fails . so its not just this game .

Have run Directx dxdaig which starts and says all systems work but if you
run the display button to test direct3d d7, d8,d9 fail saying a key has been
pressed . But no key pressed .

Have installed nvidia 61.77 xp drivers , latest agp driver for motherboard
chipset.but still no joy.

Have tried searching internet and note a common thread of this type of
problem or similiar, so as anyone out there got the answer ?

Do please tell , help appreciated.......

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

I would suggest replacing the old Generic Geforce2 mx/mx400
64meg graphics card with a newer one, such as a NVIDIA GeForce
FX 5200 model (128MB).

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| My Sister has a Home built pc consisting of Asus P4S800 Motherboard, onboard
| sound , 512mg ram , 2 maxtor 120 mg harddrives , 2dvd drives , 1 floppy
| drive , Generic Geforce2 mx/mx400 64meg graphics card .. winxp prof ( sp2
| applied) directx9c installed
|
|
| Machine as run for several month no problems . Since trying to use directx
| games have found they are not working . Just trying to get Majhonng
| playing but all driect3d fails . so its not just this game .
|
| Have run Directx dxdaig which starts and says all systems work but if you
| run the display button to test direct3d d7, d8,d9 fail saying a key has been
| pressed . But no key pressed .
|
| Have installed nvidia 61.77 xp drivers , latest agp driver for motherboard
| chipset.but still no joy.
|
| Have tried searching internet and note a common thread of this type of
| problem or similiar, so as anyone out there got the answer ?
|
| Do please tell , help appreciated.......

 

[Guest]

Thank you for reply

I was considering a similair option of taking machine to my house and trying
my fx5200 in machine but was hoping there was a easy answer rather than spend
the £35 to £45 pound for a new grpahics card (128mg fx5200) the original
card is a perfectly good working card, shame it seems that latest directx or
drivers refuse to work with them ..

I think its a siftware bug as ive found that if i go to the nvidia adapter
panel then click the troubleshooting tab and start decreasing the
accellerated hardware sometimes the direct8 or 9 test works and the spinning
cube with green x shows but only sometimes . So its a software bug to my
mind maybe.

 

[Guest]

Well Story so far .

Ive installed my fx5200 card which wors completely fine on my pc but will
not run direct3d on my Sisters .

I have put her card in mine (generic geforce2 mx/mx400 and it works fine on
my pc in direct3d) .........................So its something screwing the
configuration on her pc.

I have re-installed latest agp drivers for her asus p4s800 borad but still
no dirct3d , have reinstalled nvidia drivers 61.77 , still does not work .
have tried omega nvidia drivers but still does not work .

I will have to download all of directx9c and trying installing to damn thing
again , 33mb by 56k modem aint fun .............................Having to use
getright.


Will mention if anything works ................

 

[Guest]

Well ive solved it myself . Her pc is now returned to her and working ok
and the 3d majohnng game is running fine now. and direct3d passes the dxdaig
tests.

I ran re-install directx9c but it just said finished and dxdiag direct3d
test failed

I re-installed sp2 pack 2 and again direct3d dxdiag test for direct3d failed

At each point i made sure i closed down any running programmes on right side
of taskbar.

Well finally while closing programmes and through trial and error i found
the one causing the problem , it was the programme for the wireless keyboard
and mouse my sister uses. At my house i used a plug in ps2 mouse and
keyboard. The programme was MediaKey , by a company called dirtek, if i
remember right with a copyright of year 2000. I have uninstalled the damn
thing and now she is using a plug in keyboard and plug in opitcal Mouse .
All systems are go and now everything works ............................

I have put this solution here in the hope it aids other users
...................

Bye.....

JimJacks

JimJacks alias Icky Block for president

 

[Guest]

many thanks JimJacks, after several months of heartache, your suggestion that
the wireless keyboard could be at fault as save the day . My turbomedia
wireless keyboard was stopping the direct3d from working. once uninstalled
all was well