Graphic Card

[Sam]

when i put the Geforce2 for windows xp profeesional i
downloaded the new driver for it,, after that when i start
the widnows,,the screen goes black for seconds several
times,,and sometimes the computer restarts while opening
some pics or anything else,, the video card works well
with other computer which has the same operating system.

 

[Mike Brearley]

when i put the Geforce2 for windows xp profeesional i
downloaded the new driver for it,, after that when i start
the widnows,,the screen goes black for seconds several
times,,and sometimes the computer restarts while opening
some pics or anything else,, the video card works well
with other computer which has the same operating system.

It's possible that you have an IRQ conflict with that system. If the system
has built in video, be sure to disable it in the BIOS before using the
Geforce card. Also, before disabling it in the BIOS, you should uninstall
it from Device Manager, shut down, then disable it in the BIOS.

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Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley

 

[Plato]

It's possible that you have an IRQ conflict with that system. If the system
has built in video, be sure to disable it in the BIOS before using the
Geforce card. Also, before disabling it in the BIOS, you should uninstall
it from Device Manager, shut down, then disable it in the BIOS.

Sort of makes you wonder if PNP will ever really mature to something it
was suppossed to really be in the first place eh?

 

[Jim Macklin]

A good modern design motherboard will auto-detect the
addition of a PCI or AGP (a modification of PCI) and disable
the on-board graphics automatically.
Look at your motherboard manual, which you can get from the
mfg'r website for instructions about making changes. If you
didn't get a motherboard manual and don't even know who
really made your motherboard (HP doesn't make motherboards
for example) get the Bel Arc Advisor from www.belarc.com
and it will tell you the mobo mfg'r, model and serial
number.


| Mike Brearley wrote:
| >
| > It's possible that you have an IRQ conflict with that
system. If the system
| > has built in video, be sure to disable it in the BIOS
before using the
| > Geforce card. Also, before disabling it in the BIOS,
you should uninstall
| > it from Device Manager, shut down, then disable it in
the BIOS.
|
| Sort of makes you wonder if PNP will ever really mature to
something it
| was suppossed to really be in the first place eh?
|
|
| --
| http://www.bootdisk.com/

 

[Plato]

A good modern design motherboard will auto-detect the
addition of a PCI or AGP (a modification of PCI) and disable
the on-board graphics automatically.

True. To prevent/pre-emt problems however, sometimes REALLY major ones,
you still may have to disable/remove the old card/onboard "card" from
device manager in safe mode tho.

eg. a video card still seen in safe mode tho not physically there, but
not seen on a regular boot, _can_ cause problems, mostly driver
problems. Again, that's why its called plug and pray.

In other words, it may not be as "automagically" as you think. PCs are
pretty stupid.
I have to say tho, I'm glad MS has left us the tools in their OS's to
fix things such as this.