Geforce 4 MX Problems

[thedan]

Gday,

I recently bought a MSI Geforce MX 440 8xAGP for $75AUS and I'm installing it in dads computer.

I thought it, as a Graphics card, would be simple and routine like graphics card installs usually are.

I was gravely misinformed.

Upon installing everything was going well. I had slotted it into my Dads Socket A 4xAGP Motherboard with Duron 900 running W2K Sp4 when I was prompted to install the drivers. I did so as per the instruction manual, and reboot the computer.

Thats when things went wrong. I went to change the display properties when the monitor shut off (went into sleep) without warning, and would not return. The computer was still functioning, just no video signal.

Strange, tried it again, reinstalls etc. Nothing.

I have cleared the oemx.inf in order to reinstall a new driver, a updated MSI version. It did not work. I have tried a new BIOS (VGA). Did not work.

I have tried the 4403 Nvidia Reference Drivers and they have exhibited the same problem.

I was just wondering if anyone knew how to resolve this problem?

Thanks,
-Dan

PS: The computer has onboard Video, which is automatically disabled when this is installed

 

[TheCorm]

Allo...Ya galah

Did you uninstall the old graphics drivers first?
Have you tried Nvidia reference drivers rather than MSI's? (uninstall MSI's first)
What resolution & refresh rate are you selecting? (too high?)
Try turning off some of the more advanced AGP settings such as fast writes?
What make and model (and size) is the monitor?

Jamie

 

[Mem]

PS: The computer has onboard Video, which is automatically disabled when this is installed

So no option in BIOS to disable it? I would make sure all old video drivers are removed,Driver Cleaner 1.9 is very good for removing Nvidia drivers.

Driver Cleaner download link after that try clean install of Nvidia reference drivers 44.03,you could update your monitor driver as well.I hope PSU is adequate for your new video card.

Some Bios tweaks can`t do no harm,disable all the following, video cacheable, all video shadowing,system bios cacheable,fastwrites.

had slotted it into my Dads Socket A 4xAGP Motherboard

What chipset board is it & did you install the chipset drivers like AGP driver?

Last options would be to test the GF4 MX in a different PC to see if it works ok and reformat and clean install of OS.

 

[McArra]

Originally posted by: Mem

PS: The computer has onboard Video, which is automatically disabled when this is installed

So no option in BIOS to disable it? I would make sure all old video drivers are removed,Driver Cleaner 1.9 is very good for removing Nvidia drivers.

Driver Cleaner download link after that try clean install of Nvidia reference drivers 44.03,you could update your monitor driver as well.I hope PSU is adequate for your new video card.

Some Bios tweaks can`t do no harm,disable all the following, video cacheable, all video shadowing,system bios cacheable,fastwrites.

had slotted it into my Dads Socket A 4xAGP Motherboard

What chipset board is it & did you install the chipset drivers like AGP driver?

Last options would be to test the GF4 MX in a different PC to see if it works ok and reformat and clean install of OS.

Yep

 

[Mingon]

try underclocking the gpu to 200 mhz