What is this problem?

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Walter R.

Running WinXP SP2. It worked fine with my old 17" LCD monitor. I installed a
new LCD 19" monitor. When I boot, the screens before It get to the Welcome
screen, are all scrambled and illegible. After the Welcome screen, Windows
runs normal.
I tested Direct9X/Directdraw. It showed a "Failure at step 7 (User
verification of fullscreen bouncing): HRESULT = 0x00000000 (error code)". It
showed the same scrambled picture as the boot screens.

Is DirectX defective? WindowsXP? Defective video card? This is a 5 year old
Nvdia TNT2 card.

I reinstalled the latest drivers. No luck

Thanks for any help. Any other tests I can run?
 
Walter said:
Running WinXP SP2. It worked fine with my old 17" LCD monitor. I installed a
new LCD 19" monitor. When I boot, the screens before It get to the Welcome
screen, are all scrambled and illegible. After the Welcome screen, Windows
runs normal.
I tested Direct9X/Directdraw. It showed a "Failure at step 7 (User
verification of fullscreen bouncing): HRESULT = 0x00000000 (error code)". It
showed the same scrambled picture as the boot screens.

Is DirectX defective? WindowsXP? Defective video card? This is a 5 year old
Nvdia TNT2 card.

I reinstalled the latest drivers. No luck

Thanks for any help. Any other tests I can run?
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As you know, that's a very old video card. I would replace it with a
newer one that supports the higher resolution of your LCD monitor. Since
you've been happy with a TNT2 for all this time, I'm supposing that you
aren't a gamer. Therefore, you'll be able to find a really nice video
card for not much money.


Malke
 
Hi Rich

Windows installed the NVIDIA drivers that are part of the Windows driver
database. I could not find any newer drivers at the NVIDIA website. This
does not look like a driver problem because the monitor works fine once it
gets into the Windows OS.
 
Walter R. wrote:

I believe that Rich is talking about the drivers for your new monitor.Yes
it is plug and play but their could be better drivers for it at the mfg.
website.
 
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