Abit KT7Raid with Athlon 1.4 with latest BIOS.
WinXP Pro.
2x512MB PC133 RAM.
Suddenly couldn't play video games (Battlefield 1942, WarHammer or Prince of Persia).
Battlefield opens to EA video blurb and hangs, video freezes, audio stutters.
Warhammer and PoP simply stop at a black screen.
The screen also ?zooms? in and out about 5 pixels when new windows open or I go to new pages in IE.
Uninstalled old NVidia drivers(BFG GeForce 5600 256MB card) and installed latest drivers.
No change.
Updated to Direct X 9.0c.
No change.
Checked Direct X Diag.(did not run tests)
No problems found.
Discovered the fan on my video card was dead.
Replaced, no change.
Ran Direct X Diag again this time with tests.
Aha!
Direct 3D test locked up tight.
Direct Draw test was fine in the "small box" test, but locked up tight in the "full screen" test.
Direct Sound was ok.
Obviously I've got problems with Direct3D/Direct Draw.
The question is how do I solve this problem?
I replaced the video card with a known good card(exact same model).
Same problem.
I'm running XP Pro with all the latest updates except Service Pack 2(and no I?m not going to install it).
Video is set to 1200x1600 at 85Mhz refresh on a 21" Sony G500.
Could the monitor be going bad?
Could this be my motherboard going bad?
And as far as I know all of my drivers are up to date(I check fairly regularly).
This all started about 3 months ago and as far as I can recall didn't involve any new hardware/software changes.
I'd been running that card for well over a year now with absolutely no problems.
Is it possible to extract and overwrite the Direct 3d files from my XP disk to my Windows directory?
And if so, how would I go about doing that?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Brett
WinXP Pro.
2x512MB PC133 RAM.
Suddenly couldn't play video games (Battlefield 1942, WarHammer or Prince of Persia).
Battlefield opens to EA video blurb and hangs, video freezes, audio stutters.
Warhammer and PoP simply stop at a black screen.
The screen also ?zooms? in and out about 5 pixels when new windows open or I go to new pages in IE.
Uninstalled old NVidia drivers(BFG GeForce 5600 256MB card) and installed latest drivers.
No change.
Updated to Direct X 9.0c.
No change.
Checked Direct X Diag.(did not run tests)
No problems found.
Discovered the fan on my video card was dead.
Replaced, no change.
Ran Direct X Diag again this time with tests.
Aha!
Direct 3D test locked up tight.
Direct Draw test was fine in the "small box" test, but locked up tight in the "full screen" test.
Direct Sound was ok.
Obviously I've got problems with Direct3D/Direct Draw.
The question is how do I solve this problem?
I replaced the video card with a known good card(exact same model).
Same problem.
I'm running XP Pro with all the latest updates except Service Pack 2(and no I?m not going to install it).
Video is set to 1200x1600 at 85Mhz refresh on a 21" Sony G500.
Could the monitor be going bad?
Could this be my motherboard going bad?
And as far as I know all of my drivers are up to date(I check fairly regularly).
This all started about 3 months ago and as far as I can recall didn't involve any new hardware/software changes.
I'd been running that card for well over a year now with absolutely no problems.
Is it possible to extract and overwrite the Direct 3d files from my XP disk to my Windows directory?
And if so, how would I go about doing that?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Brett
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