Forwarding so that this message gets into the archives for this thread since it had useful questions/information in it.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:32:32 -0600 Subject: Re: [newbie] Eeek! Video Card Problems. To: Amy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wednesday 05 January 2005 03:57 am, Amy wrote: > I'M A GMAIL USER, PLEASE BE SURE YOUR REPLY GOES TO THE LIST. THANKS! > > Hey everyone! > > I've got a slight problem here... I went to install the hardware I got > from my friend... but the gforce card he gave me doesn't work when I > boot from CD and try to start my install. As far as I know, the card > is in perfect working order, though I suppose I could test this with a > windows boot disk. I'll probably go grab the win98 boot disk and > install CD from my car, after sending this email, to confirm that the > video card is in working order. > > My original plan had been to switch over to the onboard video if the > gforce card didn't play nice... but I then found out that I did not in > fact have onboard video like my friend has told me I had. So I'm kinda > stuck. > > Basically, I was under the impression that drivers included with the > install CD would work, but wouldn't be as good as the nvidia ones, > however that doesn't seem to be the case? Can anyone give me any > suggestions how I can get something working so that I can at least get > through the install, or how I could offer the correct drivers for the > computer to use during the install process? > > Until I get this figured out, I'm stuck borrowing my dad's evil XP box > whenever I want 'net access. So please, someone save me! I really > don't want to have to go through the trouble of removing everything, > and putting the old hardware back in, because I'm just going to have > to take that all out and put the newer stuff back in once again once > someone offers me a solution. > ~~ >^..^< ~~ > I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to > allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a > mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your > reply. Thanks much! ^_^ > ~~ >^..^< ~~ > http://deathkitten.net > "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." > ~Rudyard Kipling > "Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In > light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that > won't be necessary. My country has left me." > ~Greg Palast Do you know what gforce card you have? The Nvidia drivers should work. Is the card an agp slot card or a pci card. If it is an AGP card and you have another pci card of any sort in the slot next to the AGP slot it may cause an IRQ conflict. Move the pci card to a different slot. Hope this is not preaching to the choir, but you never know what may have occurred during the build of the computer, I forget small things like that now and then and then slap myself when I discover what I did. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 -- ~~ >^..^< ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ >^..^< ~~ http://deathkitten.net "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." ~Rudyard Kipling "Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me." ~Greg Palast
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