NVidia......... aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrgggggg

[Martin]

Hi,
I've had an advent 3512 for 10 months ...worked fine
til I ran scandisk on the C: drive (this may be
coincidence) the screen went blank and hangs.
Called out engineers....system board change, nvidia 128mb
card changed, hard drive wiped and start again.... what
happens now is it will work in standard or safe mode from
the vga port but refuses to work when plugged into the
nvidia card (GEForce 128 mb)... sequence of events are it
boots and goes
through the basics windows starts to load with the logo
then it just hangs with a blank blue screen. I've tried
reloading system board chipsets and drivers for the
nvidia card but still no joy. When I check hardware
drivers the video controller (vga compatible) has an
exclamation mark against it I've tried to
revert/update/reload without joy... checked the website
for clues but alas still stuck.... Engineers are due
back on Friday with another system board.
Any ideas anyone ?

..

 

[Frenchy]

Hi,
I've had an advent 3512 for 10 months ...worked fine
til I ran scandisk on the C: drive (this may be
coincidence) the screen went blank and hangs.
Called out engineers....system board change, nvidia 128mb
card changed, hard drive wiped and start again.... what
happens now is it will work in standard or safe mode from
the vga port but refuses to work when plugged into the
nvidia card (GEForce 128 mb)... sequence of events are it
boots and goes
through the basics windows starts to load with the logo
then it just hangs with a blank blue screen. I've tried
reloading system board chipsets and drivers for the
nvidia card but still no joy. When I check hardware
drivers the video controller (vga compatible) has an
exclamation mark against it I've tried to
revert/update/reload without joy... checked the website
for clues but alas still stuck.... Engineers are due
back on Friday with another system board.
Any ideas anyone ?

Do you have another machine you can try the NVIDIA Card in, to make sure it is not fried?

Assuming it isn't, remove it from the hardware list and delete the software from Add/Remove
programs and select your basic VGA as the display (also make sure in the BIOS that AGP is
selected, as many have a PCI or AGM as first boot option).

On Boot-up, select SAFE Mode and then install the NVIDIA latest drivers from within SAFE
MODE. Re-boot.

Should be OK.

A couple of points.

If the latest NVIDIA drivers don't work, try the 45.23 version, that reportedly are better
for the GeForce 4 cards
If you have an icon in the right hand tray for "Safely Remove Hardware", make sure that has
not been clicked as I once had that "remove" my video card!

Frenchy