Abit KR7A (VIA Chipset) and GeForce Issue - HELP!

[digThisXL]

I have been reading up on the "looping" issue with NVIDIA video cards when combined with VIA chipsets. A friend of mine recently purchased a Abit KR7A, which has a VIA chipset, and we have been trying to use his GeForce 2 card with it to no avail. It's fine in stock 640x480, but as soon as you crank it up at all it locks, sometimes w/ BSOD and the 'nv4_disp.dll' error. So he bought a new GeForce 4 card, thinking that the bugs would be worked out by now at least. This has been a known issue for a good year+ now. Well same issue w/ the GF4.

My question: is anyone familiar with this "looping" / BSOD / nv4_disp.dll error with NVIDIA graphics cards & VIA mobos? Is there a solution for this?

Setup:
Abit KR7A-133-raid w/ 512 meg 2100 DDR
PNY GeForce4 ti200 (i believe)
WinXP Pro
NVIDIA Detonator 21.83, 28.xx, 29xx drivers all tried w/ same result
VIA 4-in-1 drivers on mobo CD -- attempted to load -- system locked, have yet to try latest VIA 4-in-1s from VIA's site
BIOS driving values attemped w/ GF2 card: EA, DA, FF (it's set to auto now & have not tried adjust this w/ GF4 yet)
We also set CPU/IO/RAM BIOS voltage all cranked to max, no luck, they are back to auto now

Help!

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[billyjak]

Check and see if the Display drivers are properly loaded for the monitor.
Load the latest via 4.1 drivers.
Via says if you can't load them revert back to say 4.37 or 4.38 then try to load the newer ones.
I'm using the 4.37 myself on a KR7A Raid board with a GF3 and Nvidia 29.42 drivers and have never experienced the Looping people talk about.
Do you have the latest Direct x drivers installed.
I beleive that error is when your video drivers did not install fully with all the files.
Reinstall them after uninstalling them first. Load the standard VGA drivers before you reintall the Nvidia drivers again.

 

[lindholm]

Hiya

For me it was impossible to solve it, but my combination was a asus a7v333 with a daytona geforce3. As soon as a directx/openGL-app started the screen froze and I had to reset the computer (hardware reset).

However, I really think you should try this: Download NVMax at www.nvmax.com (I know its hard to find it on that page, so try searching the web for it).

In that util, you have an option (somwhere among all the numerous options) that says 'infinite loop-fix'. Click that box and let us know if it worked. I've heard that this thing will be added in future releases of the detonatordrivers.

Good luck!