please help..............

[New Disease]

i have a nvidia riva tnt2 m64 on an amd athlon

i can NEVER install new drivers.
Even when i installed windows xp i couldnt use the drivers which came with it, it said in device manager they were working but under display properties it uses default monitor on vga (i had to go back to 05 22's)
is there something i need to do in the bios or in the actual machine or the regestry?

please help me! im stumped.........
any help would be greatly appreciated...

also when i need to type"@" i need to press shift "2" and when i need " i have to press shift " ' "? any ideas?

msn name - new_disease_@hotmail.com

 

[RobbieSan]

are you the Administrator? you need to make sure you have the rights to change system settings.

regarding drivers, there are much newer Nvidia drivers available like V28.32 which you can access from this site.. when you change your video driver there's a good chance your monitor driver will be set to 'default monitor'.. you will need to install the correct driver for your monitor manually..

 

[New Disease]

yea but when it goes to default monitor there is no monitor branch in the device manager and it says standard vga on display settings

 

[RobbieSan]

That is pretty weird.. perhaps you could try uninstalling that then reboot and see if XP detects your monitor and looks for a driver..

 

[Sage]

Monitor

Do a search for thr correct monitor .inf file that is for your monitor. DL it then go to device manager and install it so it will read the correct monitor type fo your system. If you can't find the inf file post the stats for you monitor - name, model#, etc. and I will have a look for it and up load the file to the post.

 

[New Disease]

that only happens when the new driver doesnt work (all the time)

i tried the 28.32's (i think it was them)

and it said card cannot start adn under conflicts i got this:
Input/Output Range 03B0 - 03BB used by:
AMD-751 Processor to AGP Controller
Input/Output Range 03C0 - 03DF used by:
AMD-751 Processor to AGP Controller
Memory Range 000A0000 - 000BFFFF used by:
AMD-751 Processor to AGP Controller

anyone have any idea?

 

[RobbieSan]

if you haven't done this yet, try updating your VIA drivers to V2.38

www.viaarena.com

 

[New Disease]

i will try it now
if it works: u r my saviour
if it doesnt: thanks anyway

 

[RobbieSan]

ooops, I meant to say V4.38

http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=2


do you XP Pro or XP home? if you have XP Pro perhaps myself or someone else can remote into your PC to have a look.. anyhow, let us know how it goes...

 

[New Disease]

xp pro if you wanna connect its fine with me because this is really annoying - i have work to do but i cant incase the system freezes

 

[New Disease]

those drivers didnt work

RobbieSan
if you want to connect to my computer go right ahead

 

[New Disease]

i get this message on event viewer
The driver nv4_disp for the display device \Device\Video0 got stuck in an infinite loop. This usually indicates a problem with the device itself or with the device driver programming the hardware incorrectly. Please check with your hardware device vendor for any driver updates.

any ideas

 

[RobbieSan]

tough to say... most likely a driver issue but I'll what your systems says when I connect up..

 

[New Disease]

what is your email so i can add you

 

[eGoalter]

hmm

boot in safemode and install the vid card drivers,then when you boot into normal mode,it will bring up the found new hardware wizard.
instead of letting xp choose the monitor drivers to install, click
dont search let me search myself ,hehe. it will show a list of compatible drivers, like the plug n play, ect...if you dont want plugnplay and you have drivers for your brand monitor, then click
have disk,and browse to whereever you put your monitor drivers.
if it trys to install your monitor in safe mode just follow the same steps above...if all else fails try disabling vga mode in your bios.but only temporarly.also check for new agp controllers from amd, i noticed all those errors for the agp controlers.if you are getting conflicts, make sure your pc is running in acpi, you can check in device manager.somthing is wrong with your memory
range,on those agp controllers.its not a driver issue, most likely
it has to do with your mobo settings.but get the latest nividia drivers too.also what is the name of your mobo,monitor,ect...
need some system specs.........................................................

 

[New Disease]

gimmie your emil and i will let u connect to see if you can fix it

please please please reply

 

[eGoalter]

ok

we can try, but i have all my sharing and remote junk disabled so
it may take me a bit.

robon0917@attbi.com

just send me some info and ill reply and let ya know whats going on.