Splash Screen Yes! Login Screen No!

[msc]

Greetings all,

I upgrade a Gateway machine with a NVidia TNT2 Pro video card (16 megs
ram on card) from Win98 to XP Home SP1.. The machine has a Gateway FPD1500
Flat panel display. The Video card has the DVI -I port (I think that is what
is is called), no 15 pin VGA. When the machine boots, I get the splash
screen, but the switch to Login Screen results in loss of signal to montor
(power light goes from green to amber). The system is running - I can press
the power button and the machine shutdown nicely.

I can boot in VGA mode, 640x480 8 bit color. Any adjustment results in
blank screen loss of signal.

I cannot find a driver for the FPD1500. Windows recoginizes it as a Plug
& Play Monitor. I've tried the Gateway FPD1570, but still no lubk

I downloaded the latest NVidia driver for the TNT2 Pro, installed it and
still nada ...

Any ideas? Thanks in advance

msc

PIII 850
256 mg Ram

 

[Rich Barry]

Go here www.guru3d.com and download and install the Nvidia 21.83 driver.
Remove the old driver first.

 

[V Green]

DVI on certain card/monitor combos is seriously broken
for LOTS of us.

Just Google the floowing text

DVI + "blank screen"

to see what I mean.

I'm currently on my third vidcard, just trying
to get DVI beyond the startup screen.

Currently it only works up to 1024 x 768 ONLY
with the built-in VGA Compatible driver.

If you load a card-specific driver, it'll read the EDID
of the LCD monitor (plug n play) and often incorrectly
decide it can't work with DVI, and shut the DVI port down.

It's a friggin' mess that neither the monitor mgfrs nor
the vid card mgfrs seem to want to fix.

I guess they all figure we're all gonna use the analog
VGA port.

 

[Nathan McNulty]

Wow, the TNT2 Pro has DVI? I didn't know they had DVI that long ago

Anyways, what you need to do is disable the card from reading the DCC
information from the monitor. I do not know how to do this with the
nVidia card since I have an ATI card. Here are the latest drivers you
can try:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_61.76

 

[msc]

Thanks all for your posts ..

Rich, the 21.83 version of the driver fixed the problem - with all the
versions of the driver out there, I am amazed at your ability to suggest the
correct one - hope I never have to meet you on Jeopardy ("I'll take NVidia
drivers for $500 Alex"<g>)

Nathan, not only does it have a DVI - that' the only port on the card! I was
afraid I was going have to purchase a new Video and/or Monitor, or find some
way to convert a standard 15 pin output on a new card to the DVI in on the
monitor.

Thanks again for all your help
msc