halen

Which ones are the fastest for the DDR boards? Right now I'm using the 6.62 WHQL drivers which work ok, but I would like to overclock the board since I invested $12 in an Orb chipset cooler. Unfortunately the 6.66 drivers screw up the 1152x864 resolution which is what I use. Am I up a creek? Thanks, DMA

Well, a reinstall of SP1 and an install of DX8a allowed me to finally update the drivers successfully. I tried using the newest Leadtek drivers that conincide with Nvidias 6.66 reference drivers, but they wouldn't allow me to use the 1152x864 mode so I went to the WHQL 6.62 drivers which work ok.

Oops, except I realized that all my drives use FAT32 currently, therefore permissions is not the problem.

Ok, I'll give that a try and see what happens. I'll post my results. Thanks DMA

True, it seems that it doesn't just apply to one driver type. I have the feeling that if I wanted to update any of the drivers I would have this issue. Should I make the jump to Whistler Beta 1, or should I just reinstall Win2k? Anyone?

Has anyone else ever had the problem when trying to update Geforce drivers (or any other boards) that at the end of the install it says "An error occured during the installation of the driver,""The system could not find the file specified," and then the driver works until you reboot? Also, the video card shows up in device manager with a yellow exclamation mark, and so does the monitor for that matter. Thanks, DMA

Does anyone with this problem have Netmeeting Remote Desktop Sharing enabled? If so, turn it off! It is what is causing your issue. [This message has been edited by halen (edited 20 November 2000).]

The Iomega USB Zip drive does work under NT4, it basically installs a USB SCSI storage device driver, and it only works with the zip drive, but it does work.

Try booting from the Win2000 CD or disks and doing a repair. When you setup the repair options, only repair the items describing startup or boot, don't compare files or mess with the registry restore options. This used to work for NT, and I don't see why it won't for 2000 as well. It should find your Win2000 installation and resetup the boot sector and boot menu to include it and Windows ME.

Well, I figured out my problem, and it wasn't related to Nvidia or DirectX at all. It was Netmeeting Remote Desktop sharing. As soon as I turn it off and reboot, I get AGP, Directdraw and D3D reenabled in dxdiag. If I turn it back on, they go away on the next reboot. Would this be considered a feature?

I'm not quite sure how Unreal could affect the dxdiag application...

Its an Abit BH6 Rev. 1.0

The bios update was necessary to support a newer CPU upgrade. I've tried altering the aperture settings to equal the size of my RAM, half my RAM and 1/4th my RAM. It's a BX board and I'm pretty sure that W2k has the newest drivers for that chipset. I've already reinstalled once to enable ACPI about 4 months ago, it won't hurt to do it again, I guess. Oh, and I did uninstall DX8 as well, but the problem remains.

I've tried both of those things already, with no luck. I've removed the drivers via the control panel, rebooted into safe mode and deleted all oem*.inf and nv*.* files, and reinstalled the drivers. Is there something else I may be missing? I do have SP1 installed as well as build 140 of DirectX 8. I'd like to avoid blowing away Win2000 and reinstalling if possible.

Ok, I have no idea what happened to my machine. I recently updated the BIOS on my Abit BH6 1.0 to version SS and I also upgraded to the Nvidia 6.18 drivers and now when I go into DXdiag, it shows Direct3d and AGP support not available. OpenGL accelerated games seem to work fine, but UT in D3D mode only runs in a windows and won't go to fullscreen. Has this happened to anyone else? Is there a fix? I tried going back to the 5.32 drivers, which worked before, but it didn't fixt the problem.