Asus GeForce4 Ti 4200 driver issues

[ClemsonJim]

I'm trying to install the nvidia and agp drivers; however, everytime I try to install one of these, the screen goes crazy. A couple of times the screen has split in two and the bottom half is displayed on the top. I've tried installing the latest nvidia and Sis agp drivers, but to no avail. Can anyone tell from this information if it is the video card or the motherboard that's bad? Any help would be appreciated.

 

[nick1985]

maybe monitor?

 

[ClemsonJim]

My monitor worked fine on my other setup, so I don't think that would be it. Here's what I tried to do and what happened in detail.

I just tried installing the latest nvidia drivers (43.45) and everything goes fine during the installation and I restart the computer as optioned. During the restart, the bios loads and XP starts to load, but then the monitor goes in standby mode, but I can still hear the music load in XP. I have no other option but to power off the system. It takes several tries just to get the bios to start again. When the bios does load, I start Windows in Safe Mode, but the screen is all garbled. After I do the system restore, everything is back to "normal."

When I attempt to install the latest agp driver (1.14), the screen begins to become slightly garbled, but my screen is still displayed at 1280x1024. When I restart the computer everything boots fine, until it gets to loading windows where the scrolling bars become messed up. Windows then loads in another setting and the screen is once again garbled. I've pretty much learned to restore my computer without having to look at the screen.

I have no clue about what my options are. Any help would be appreciated.