White screen

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Nich

I have an independantly-built Pentium 4 1.6 Northwood on
an Intel 850MV motherboard with 512M RDRAM and an Asylum
(made by BFGtech) GeForce 4 Ti 4200 with 128 MB of
DDRAM. When I try to play graphics-intense games such as
Nascar Thunder 2003, Rise of Nations, or Tiger Woods
2004, the game starts to load fine, but then turns to a
mostly white screen with only a few colors. The cursor
can be seen as a large box. After a few seconds, the
system locks up and requires a hard reset. I have
flashed the system BIOS, updated the nVidia drivers to
version 45.23, which supports Direct X 9.0. I have
DirectX 9.0b. I am running Windows XP Professional (5.1,
Build 2600). I have tried changing all of the drivers
and DirectX properties to no avail. Does anyone have any
other suggestions?
 
Hi Nich,

The only thing missing from the list of things you've tried was
upgrading of the Intel Chipset drivers. Have you tried that yet?

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| I have an independantly-built Pentium 4 1.6 Northwood on
| an Intel 850MV motherboard with 512M RDRAM and an Asylum
| (made by BFGtech) GeForce 4 Ti 4200 with 128 MB of
| DDRAM. When I try to play graphics-intense games such as
| Nascar Thunder 2003, Rise of Nations, or Tiger Woods
| 2004, the game starts to load fine, but then turns to a
| mostly white screen with only a few colors. The cursor
| can be seen as a large box. After a few seconds, the
| system locks up and requires a hard reset. I have
| flashed the system BIOS, updated the nVidia drivers to
| version 45.23, which supports Direct X 9.0. I have
| DirectX 9.0b. I am running Windows XP Professional (5.1,
| Build 2600). I have tried changing all of the drivers
| and DirectX properties to no avail. Does anyone have any
| other suggestions?
 
You're welcome Nich. If you want to try some more
troubleshooting steps however, I have a Checklist of
Solutions at: http://NibblesNbitsVideo.tk

--
Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Game FAQs: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;[LN];gms
Visit my Zone.com / Gaming Helpsite: http://nibblesnbits.tk or Call / Contact
MS Support at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=sz;en-us;top
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________

| Tried it, and it didn't help. Thanks though.
 
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