Video card problem

[bschooley]

AMD 1.1
XP pro
Award GV-11 board


Ok, I had a 32 mb Nvdiia AGP vid card. pulled it and put in a 64 Mb Nvidia PCI card. Rebotted, it immediately said "Nvidia MX-440" etc., went through regular boot up, and then where it normally goes to the blue screen that says "loading XP", it goes black and stays black. Played w/ the bios, no love. Reset all defaults. Tried to boot in safe mode, and it hangs before the blue screen and stays that way. Tried to use xp disc to "repair" and it hangs. Finally put back AGP card. Any suggestions as to remedy?????????????

 

[paparazi]

Use add and remove to take out Nvidia display drivers, shut down, change card over, post into bios, set first display device to PCI, restart.
Fingers crossed.
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[bschooley]

I don't have this option in BIOS??? could it be named something else?

 

[JeffGatti]

I can't understand why this isn't easy

I just installed a GeForce4 MX 4000 PCI in my desktop. It is an AMD Athlon 1.15 GHz with 504 MB of RAM, OS is WIN XP Pro SP2. It has an onboard Plug and play Monitor on Trident Video Accelerator Blade 3D/Pro Media, that is sharing 8 MB of RAM. I installed the hardware, installed the software, updated the drivers but now in my Display Properties settings, it is showing I have 2 monitors???

When I select the GeForce4 MX 4000 and select “Extend my Windows desktop onto this Monitor” my display shuts off, when I switch the cable to the video card, the monitor won’t even come out of sleep mode.

This is baffling , I thought these things were plug and play…any advice to make this thing work??

Thanks in advance,

Jeff

 

[felixc]

Jeff, can you disable the Blade 3D from the BIOS menu? or from an on-board jumper option?
Windows, or the drivers, may refuse to send signals to the monitor is there isn'T one connected at boot up.