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98se to XP Upgrade -- Video Card Issues (and keyboard??)

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timp15

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My parent's home PC had been having some weird problems with 98se, mostly related to video-- the screen would randomly blank out and be all fuzzy with horizontal and vertical lines. Also, the keyboard would frequently stop working after this occured, yet simply unplugging/replugging it in would remedy that. It was odd because they could still perform some graphic-intensive work, but sometimes it would crap out when you just opened IE.

By the way, they're running an athlon 1.4 tbird with 512 ram and a geforce 2 gts pro w/64mb.

So, just the other day I upgraded them to XP professional, and now the video card isn't running at all. Under device manager it shows a conflict, and "This device cannot start. (Code 10)" I've updated the drivers and it says they're find, but the device won't start. I guess XP has some back up VGA drivers that are keeping us alive for now, but I'm wondering why the vid card isn't working at all. Is XP smart enough to see that something is wrong with it and refuse to use it, whereas 98 didn't care and just tried anyway?

Any other suggestions?? The keyboard thing is somewhat mysterious to me too. I really appreciate your help with this. Even the simplest thing such as scrolling a webpage is incredibly slow right now, and I'm hoping to get it up and running for them again soon.
 
delete any and all nvidia drivers on your system

reboot

xp should show 'new hardware found'
(if not then u prolly didnt delete all drivers)

d/l the xp gf2 drivers and install

reboot

go to device manager
(start bar> right click 'my computer'>hardware>display adapters)

expand disp adapters and right click on nvidia gf2

update driver

let xp choose the best driver (prolly wont change anything, just makes xp happy)

that should fix ya up
 
Try the newest nvidia drivers for kicks. Sometimes an upgrade isn't always the best thing to do really if you know what I mean.
 
Unfortunately, no luck. Removed all drivers, let XP find it's own, and upon completion it still says "This device cannot start" Any other suggestions? Any ideas about why the keyboard would be affected sometimes?? Thanks a lot.
 
AGP - but here's an update-- I threw my old Voodoo 3 PCI in there and found some XP drivers for it and everything is running ok... is it more likely that this is a hardware issue?? But I don't know why the card would just quit... Thanks.
 
Can you test the card on another machine?

Like dbwillis said, OS upgrades can cause major headaches, either now, or down the road.
 
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