NV4_DISP ERROR + NEW GFORCE 5200 FX 256

[XianDrinker 0]

I would appreciate any help or input regarding this problem.

 

 

first of all i dont know if this is software of hardware, so please excuse me if i have the wrong section?

 

O.K i started with a Gforce2MX 400. (everything worked perfectly) I took it out and put in a Gforce 5200 FX 256MB, the card seemed to be working fine, but i immeditly wanted to play a games to test it , all the games i have tried all lock up and i get the blue screen of death telling me that NV4_DISP caused and error.

 

I then restrated in safe mode and unistalled the driver and updated with the latest NVIDIA driver. i restarted and the games still wont work.

 

However it is now freezing in the windows enviroment, i dont do anything serious, and i have also checked task manager to see the cpu load, but nothing is over 10%

 

 

First system test;

 

Soltek MB with VIA KT333

FSB running at 266

Athlon 2400 XP Overclocked to 2700 (2.2GHZ) (well cooled)

CDROM, DVD, DVDRW, 2X HD's + Raid Card

400Watt Power Supply,

512MB DDR PC2100

Sound Blaster 128PCI

Onboard sound (disabled)

TV Capture card,

(ALL DEVS ARE PCI EXCEPT GFORCE WHICH IS AGP)

 

yes its heavy! but well cooled! i thought the capture card

might be causing IRQ errors so i took it out,

i also thought that the bios settings me be causing issues

so i tried changing the AGP Speed to 1x 2x 4x<--max)

also tried changing the apature size to 128 - 256 to suit

the memory on board.

 

i have also done 5 million things but i cant remember them all! hehehe, i have also tried older nvidia drivers but the fx 5200 only works from about 4.1 i think?

also tried the orignal cdrom driver, and also installed the mother board via 4 in 1 driver.

 

my current attemp at the minute is a driver i found on google called URENDER_4532, dont know if it will work, will keep posted.

 

 

my other alternative is a format, but if windows xp will keep anoying me then its back to me or 98,, anyway that is the last of my wish's!

 

as mentioned above, i would appreciate any help!

on thy knees and crying like a baby!

p.s i have also put the cpu back to 2400)

[XianDrinker 0]

Good news and bad news.

 

I tried the card under windows 98, seemed ok, but started to have some bad issues, But i just tried installing windows 2000 and it works perfect!

 

seems weird cause of the 2k&xp family?

 

i cant udnerstand why Windows xp wont power it, i thought it might be something to do with Direct x9... but im not sure.

 

well i hope this thread comes to some use to any one else out their lol...grab windows 2000.

 

and i must say that going back to windows 2000 wasnt that bad, but experiencing this geforce running! has ben breath taking!

 

its awesome!

 

excuse my typos, im really wanting to go play zero hour!