Nivida ?/Direct9?

[Guest]

May I be your eyes for a moment.

I have a Dell 8100 Dimension; that came with WinMe(Oem) on it. After 20
re-installs in a six month period. I went out and bought WinXP. Dell did help
me with the debug and installing XP. But now won't talk to me, because WinMe
isn't on the computer.
Bio: Phoenex Bio Plus Version 1.0 XP2
Processer: Intel Pentium 4 1300 Mhz
Direct 9.0
Nivida GeForce 2MX

This computer, just recover from a serious error on May 19. No restore point.
Error Signature:
BCCode:100000ea BCP1:82B9F128
BCP2:82B6C070 BCP3F8B1DCB4
BCP4:00000001 05VER 5_1_2600
SP: 2_0 Product: 768_1
C:\Docume 1\DianeM 1\Temp\Were781.dirOO\mini051006.02.dmp
C:\Docume 1\DianeM 1\Temp\Were781.dir00\sysdata.xml

By what I understand all of the above, means hardware problem.

So back to help and support on another computer. Finally found, how to get
to device manager and Direct 9. No questions marks in device manager. On too
Direct 9. No problems, until I got to display.

Hardware (Nivida ?) accelerated Direct 3D+ is not available because of
display driver does not support it. You may be able to get a never driver
from hardware manufactor.
Direct Draw: ok
Direct 3D functionally not available. You should verify that the driver as a
final version from manufactor.

With back to device manager, and ask Nivida to try to find a new driver.
Since I am currently update with all Microsoft patches, etc. Couldn't fine
any. On to Nivida.com,
downloads. Three windows pop up. 1st: graph cards 2nd: GeForce 3rd: WinXP.
Only thing that came up, was for GeForce 6, 7, etc. Tried different setting
in these three boxes, with no luck. Went to support.dell, there I found it.
Should I or shouldn't download it?

On to Microsoft, and found that I could download Direct 9, again. Should I
doing it before Nivida or after??

You may have your eyes back now. Thank you so much, for the time and help.

Diane

 

[DL]

Have you visited Dell site, support for your model and checked for various
winxp drivers there?
eg chipset/vid drivers etc
The 'prob' with many large OEM suppliers is that their hardware can be OEM
specific
Also if you upgraded ME as apposed to clean install this can also cause
probs, sometimes

 

[AMDX2]

May I be your eyes for a moment.

I have a Dell 8100 Dimension; that came with WinMe(Oem) on it. After 20
re-installs in a six month period. I went out and bought WinXP. Dell did
help
me with the debug and installing XP. But now won't talk to me, because
WinMe
isn't on the computer.
Bio: Phoenex Bio Plus Version 1.0 XP2
Processer: Intel Pentium 4 1300 Mhz
Direct 9.0
Nivida GeForce 2MX

This computer, just recover from a serious error on May 19. No restore
point.
Error Signature:
BCCode:100000ea BCP1:82B9F128
BCP2:82B6C070 BCP3F8B1DCB4
BCP4:00000001 05VER 5_1_2600
SP: 2_0 Product: 768_1
C:\Docume 1\DianeM 1\Temp\Were781.dirOO\mini051006.02.dmp
C:\Docume 1\DianeM 1\Temp\Were781.dir00\sysdata.xml

By what I understand all of the above, means hardware problem.

So back to help and support on another computer. Finally found, how to get
to device manager and Direct 9. No questions marks in device manager. On
too
Direct 9. No problems, until I got to display.

Hardware (Nivida ?) accelerated Direct 3D+ is not available because of
display driver does not support it. You may be able to get a never driver
from hardware manufactor.
Direct Draw: ok
Direct 3D functionally not available. You should verify that the driver as
a
final version from manufactor.

With back to device manager, and ask Nivida to try to find a new driver.
Since I am currently update with all Microsoft patches, etc. Couldn't fine
any. On to Nivida.com,
downloads. Three windows pop up. 1st: graph cards 2nd: GeForce 3rd: WinXP.
Only thing that came up, was for GeForce 6, 7, etc. Tried different
setting
in these three boxes, with no luck. Went to support.dell, there I found
it.
Should I or shouldn't download it?

On to Microsoft, and found that I could download Direct 9, again. Should I
doing it before Nivida or after??

You may have your eyes back now. Thank you so much, for the time and help.

Diane

Ok, first it does sound like a driver problem. That is easy to fix. At
nvidia.com web site the drivers are for all products, not just the models
they list. So you click that you have a Geforce card and then windows xp.
That is what you download. The web page may only list 6800, 7800 etc, but
also it does tell you that it is for all GeForce cards. So download that and
then install. First go to control panel and add/remove control panel. Then
find nvidia if it is there. if there you want to remove it. If it is not
there you want to just run the installer you downloaded from the nvidia
site. It is also possible to run the installer without going to add/remove
control panel, but not sure if that will cause any issues or not. I usually
don't have a problem, but might someday.

I really hope this will work for you. It sounds like it should. God Bless
you!!

 

[Guest]

You nulled any EULA with DELL after installing our own system on their
machine so don't even bother trying to get their help. They should be able to
provide you with monitor details and your hardware drivers though...anyway
you're past that.

I'm not sure what to tell you, if you know what your video card is and you
found its driver on dell.com then why not use it. I would suggest loading
your video driver then installing the microsoft Direct X 9.0 (which includes
direct3D).

Here are some resources:

The Direct3D API is part of DirectX
"about Win XP API direct x/3d/draw... suite"
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programming/features/d3do/

"Download DirectX End-User Runtime 'Standalone' Installer
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...38-DB71-4C1B-BC6A-9B6652CD92A3&displaylang=en

Microsoft DirectX Product Information
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/productinfo/default.mspx

I'll also give you this just in case you haven't already seen it
"Resources for troubleshooting startup problems in Windows XP"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q308041

Good luck. If you install a driver your comuter isn't compatible with you
can usually unibnstall it (assuming you have access to the OS) effortlessly.

 

[Guest]

Special thanks to DL, AMDX2, and brandon dub. For your kindness and your time
in helping me. I did download Nivida driver, and it does since to be working
right, including Direct 9. Thanks again

 

[Guest]

Glad I could help. Take care.

 

[AMDX2]

Special thanks to DL, AMDX2, and brandon dub. For your kindness and your
time
in helping me. I did download Nivida driver, and it does since to be
working
right, including Direct 9. Thanks again

I was hoping that was all that was needed. Right On !!!! Awesome!!

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Just more info about your problem: When you first installed XP, you were only
using the "limited" drivers that Microsoft had provided on the XP install CD.
These are "limited" to mainly provide "2D" display and this is why you were
having the DirectX 9 3D problems. By using the nVidia drivers, this usually
fixes this.