I have just built 2 systems. The first which works great.
The second is driving me crazy.
My main problem is the Geforce 4 MX PCI video card that I installed.
When I boot up the system, Windows Xp will recognize the card and install the drivers. It looks great, but when I reboot, all goes crazy. It goes through the normal boot up, however, I will only (sometimes) see the task bar flash then disappear. Then the background is blue. No icons ever appear. It is like it is hanging before they all load up.
I see no mouse pointers, no icons, nothing.
If I push ctl-alt-del nothing happens. I have to restart it manually.
At this point I can go into safe mode and uninstall it and start the process over.
If I choose a generic vga driver it will have the yellow exclamation point but it will work fine.
I have tried downloading the newest drivers, the older drivers, going to windows update and downloading thier MS drivers. Same thing!
I know this card is good as it will work in 2 other computers just fine.
I have also exchanged the motherboard for a new mother board.
I can get an older voodoo 3 card to work in it fine.
Help please. What did I miss or over look?
This is only the 3rd system i have built. The other 2 were great.
My specs are:
KK266plus-r IWILL motherboard
1048 sdram (2 - 512 sticks)
1.5 ghz processor
1 - 4x dvd player
1- tdk 40x burner
Geforce 4 MX 420 video card - PCI
1 - 60 gig hd
1 - 40 gig hd
Any help would be great! thanks
The second is driving me crazy.
My main problem is the Geforce 4 MX PCI video card that I installed.
When I boot up the system, Windows Xp will recognize the card and install the drivers. It looks great, but when I reboot, all goes crazy. It goes through the normal boot up, however, I will only (sometimes) see the task bar flash then disappear. Then the background is blue. No icons ever appear. It is like it is hanging before they all load up.
I see no mouse pointers, no icons, nothing.
If I push ctl-alt-del nothing happens. I have to restart it manually.
At this point I can go into safe mode and uninstall it and start the process over.
If I choose a generic vga driver it will have the yellow exclamation point but it will work fine.
I have tried downloading the newest drivers, the older drivers, going to windows update and downloading thier MS drivers. Same thing!
I know this card is good as it will work in 2 other computers just fine.
I have also exchanged the motherboard for a new mother board.
I can get an older voodoo 3 card to work in it fine.
Help please. What did I miss or over look?
This is only the 3rd system i have built. The other 2 were great.
My specs are:
KK266plus-r IWILL motherboard
1048 sdram (2 - 512 sticks)
1.5 ghz processor
1 - 4x dvd player
1- tdk 40x burner
Geforce 4 MX 420 video card - PCI
1 - 60 gig hd
1 - 40 gig hd
Any help would be great! thanks