Video card and XP Pro problem

[Guest]

My comp has had a brain seizure (after a LOMAC crash, of all bloody things), forcing me to repair the installation. Most things are running now, except for 1 issue.

There is no video adapter displayed in the hardware manger!! It's using a VGA save device (WTF is that?) No matter what I do, I cannot get it to recgonize my video card. In fact, no video device is even listed in the hardware manager; the VGA save device only shows up when I access dispaly properties. And because my comp says it has no video card, I can't install the monitor drivers either. Yet I'm running at 1280x1024 resoultion on WinXP Pro as I type this. Any ideas?

SPECS
Athlon XP1800+ @2400
512 MB DDR 333 PC2700 RAM
GeForce FX 5600 128 m

 

[Aaron Smith]

Go to the following link and download and install the
nVidia driver from there.....
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_53.03
-Aaron

-----Original Message-----
My comp has had a brain seizure (after a LOMAC crash, of

all bloody things), forcing me to repair the
installation. Most things are running now, except for 1
issue.

There is no video adapter displayed in the hardware

manger!! It's using a VGA save device (WTF is that?) No
matter what I do, I cannot get it to recgonize my video
card. In fact, no video device is even listed in the
hardware manager; the VGA save device only shows up when
I access dispaly properties. And because my comp says it
has no video card, I can't install the monitor drivers
either. Yet I'm running at 1280x1024 resoultion on WinXP
Pro as I type this. Any ideas?

 

[Guest]

Sorry, I should have mentioned I've done that. No effect. The installation package opens and runs, but at such a fast pace I'm sure nothing is being installed. I've tried d/l'ing from other mirrors, too--same thing.

 

[Lance]

Do you know if you have an AGP filter install and if so
if it's working properly? If you go into Device Manager
under System Devices there should be a 'Processor to AGP
Controller' If you do not see this or if it's ! out you
should download the latest AGP filter chipset driver.
Below are links to common AMD motherboard AGP Filter
Drivers.

Via:
http://downloads.viaarena.com/drivers/HyperionPro64/VIA_Hy
perionPro64_v096P2.zip

SiS:
http://driver2.sis.com/agp/agp117.exe

AMD:
http://www.amd.com/us-
en/assets/content_type/utilities/miniport_533.EXE

-----Original Message-----
Sorry, I should have mentioned I've done that. No

effect. The installation package opens and runs, but at
such a fast pace I'm sure nothing is being installed.
I've tried d/l'ing from other mirrors, too--same thing.