GeForce 256 "won't Start"

[JBT]

The other day my dad's 19" 4-5 year old Viewsonic finally bit it in an array of sparks inside the CRT...
Right now he is using a spare 15" Goldstar POS monitor.... Any ways since then His Video card a Creative Labs GeForce 256 with 32MB of DDR ram has had a yellow ! beside it in device manager and it says "the device will not start" The video works and all but if you have ever run your system with out the video drivers etc the scrolliong is just nasty feeling, well it feels like that.

I have tried uninstalling the drivers reinstalling the 45.66's or what ever he was using. Then after that didn't help I uninstalled it and ran driver cleaner and installed the 61.77's for the heck of it. I removed the card even and reseated it but to no avail the yellow ! won't go away and still says device won't start either.

I am thinking maybe the CRT dying might have screwed up the card or something... or even the card killed the monitor I'm not to sure. Any Ideas?

 

[glorifiedG]

Unless it was an electrical storm I do not think the monitor messed up the card. That nasty scrolling you are seeing is windows vga save so windows will let you see something even with drivers not installed for video card. Maybe you tried this but this is what i would do: first try uninstalling the nvidia drivers completely reboot and check to see if card is still recognized by device manager. If it is uninstall it from device man Then I would turn of PC and reseat it again for good measure, next I would reboot PC and hopefully it recognizes it and starts add new harware wizard. IF that does not work I would just play around with uninstalling/ re-installing display adapters or monitors. It could be the video card does not recognize the monitor. Dont take this to heart but it could maybe be the monitor is so outdated that the video card refuses to work but im not so sure becasue my 9000 pro works fine with a crappy 15" monitor from local hospital. lol. But anyways I would just try to get it as clean as possible and go from there.

Hope this helps

 

[JBT]

Yeah tried all that still nothing. The exact code is "This device cannot start. (Code 10)" Not sure what I can do. I guess it might be time for a new video card as well as a new monitor hahaha... :sigh;

 

[newParadigm]

try using an older driver (maybe a detenator?)

That might help, not sure though

 

[JBT]

Yeah I have used the older ones. The 45's that he had before were denanator's so I reinstalled with them first. I tried 61.77's and that didn't work so I use reinstalled the 45's again but to no avail nothing.

 

[newParadigm]

hmmmm...try these drivers, got 44.03's, and i can get anything back to like Det 12's.

44.03's

 

[Marsumane]

Try the monitor with your system. Just test it out. ALso try removing the device from driver manager, restarting, and having it rerecognise the card. Also, try the card with your monitor in your dad's system. Narrow down your culprit here. That is the first thing u really must do.