Videoproblem

[Orpheus]

I have a big problem:

I have a ECS K75SA motherboard, AMD Athlon 1900+ XP processor, nVidia TNT2 videocard, Philips 105S monitor, onboard soundcard.

When I want to play a game, the screen minimalizes and I only hear sound and see the desktop again. I have it with every game, no matter what. The card and monitor work fine in a P266 PC. I have tried EVERY configuration: screen resolution, refresh rates, 16-32 bits, hardwareaccelarations. I have the detonator 23.11 driver from nVidia and the latest XP dtiver from the monitor.
I used cacheman for memory adjustments, turned off all programs on the background, but no effect.
When I want to test D3D on DxDiagnostics, it says repeatedly I cancelled the test by pressing a key (but I didn't).
The weird thing is, that sometimes, after uninstalling and re-installing the drivers, it works suddenly, but when I turn off the PC, it's the same problem again. When I get the game working (for me it looks just random), the hibernate mode is the only way to keep the settings.

Anyone knows the problem here?

 

[zman]

Sux to be you


The only thing I can suggest is to Flash your PC bios and Video Card Bios..

It definatley sounds like the Video card, have you got a friends you can try ?

 

[Orpheus]

I have been thinking about that, but am a bit scared to do that, because I have no experience with it. Flashing BIOS is explained on the website of my motherboard, but flashing BIOS of the videocard...how do you that? I even't didn't know he had an own BIOS.

the card worked fine in a PII266...

 

[icerabbit007]

I think I have a solution. Maybe a background program is cousing this strange affect. disable startup programs under msconfig and reboot your machine. Maybe it will fix your problem.

 

[Orpheus]

No, I did that already, didn't work. But thanks anyway.

 

[phishhead]

I was having this problem with my games also for some reason it would barely work with 640x480....downloaded the 27.xx driver and the refresh rate fix...from guru.3d.com i think that is the url...but that fixed it can now play any game at any resol...i also overclocked it a bit

 

[Orpheus]

Well, first tried the 27.23 driver: didn't support TNT2. Then the 27.42. That went smoothly, I acually could play, untill i turn off the computer and restarted it again later; same problem. Tried to install refresh rate fix, but it sayd my driver wasn't updated. So, i reinstalled 23.11. The RRfix detected it, but when adjusting the refresh rates, it went black. Had to reinstall the whole thing again.

So, it doesn't work yet.

 

[duder]

have you tried the factory drivers or just the detonator drivers?

 

[Orpheus]

Isn't the 23.11 the latest detonator driver?

Well, I think I am forced to buy a new vidoecard...

 

[duder]

why don't you try the factory drivers or something other than the latest detonator drivers, i thought the detonators where for the gforce chipsets not the tnt's, call me crazy?

 

[Orpheus]

Alright, i just bought the latest Geforce 4 MX 440 videocard: EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM!
So, it is not a problem of the videocard!

 

[phishhead]

I have an old 16meg pci tnt and the den...27.xx is working fine for me...not a big gamer so don't need the super duper vid card.

 

[duder]

your agp slots blown or could be the genero mobo....sorry

 

[Orpheus]

I changed the motherboard: no effect. So, I tried every hardware possibility: changed motherboard, changed videocard, changed monitor, mouse and keyboard. All no effect.

 

[phishhead]

well seems like you exhausted all hardware possibilities so have you tried fdsk and reformat your box. and do a clean install

 

[Orpheus]

It's the only thing left to do, i guess. But I installed Windows XP Pro on a clean machine...