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GF3 TI 200 Riddle

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Hankysmoo

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My video card for some reason can ONLY work with detonator drivers version 41.09. Any other driver version will result in a hard crash about 5 seconds after booting into windows. So far, I've tried drivers version 30.82 (which I really want to revert to), 42.01 and 40.72. I have tried changing various video card settings in bios such as using AGP 2x, disabling fast writes, disabling ACPI, all to no avail. I am not overclocking. This is all on a AMD XP 1600+ EPOX 8k3AE (KT333) with 512mb 2700 Samsung ram, 2 maxtor hardrives, a dvdrom, and a liteon 48xcdrw powered by a 300W Antec PSU. I thought that my windows might have gotten corrupt so I just reformatted and right after installing the 4.45 hyperion 4 in 1's, the first thing I did was install the 30.82 drivers but after I rebooted, I ended up getting an Infinite Loop error. The only way to get my computer operational again was to go into safemode, uninstall the drivers, and then install the 41.09 detonator drivers again. Do you guys think it is a defective card? Why would my video card ONLY work with the 41.09's? All of this is seriously driving me crazy. Thanks in advance for any help.

Update:
After installing Avast antivirus software, I could finally change video card drivers again! However, avast was crashing unreal 2 and only unreal 2 so then I decided to uninstall avast and now I can't change video card drivers again but Unreal 2 doesn't crash =( This is soooo weird and frustrating. Does anyone know why my computer won't allow me to change detonator drivers without having this software installed on my computer?
 
This isn't really going to help...but I'll share a problem/riddle I had back when my friend and I first upgraded to GF3 ti200s.

We had the exact same system with the only difference being the video cards. I had a VisionTek GF3 ti200 w/64MB RAM and he bought a Gainward GoldenSample GF3 ti200 w/ 64MB RAM. My PC w/ the VisionTek card was working flawlessly. We built his and he was having nothing but constant lock ups when running 3DMark2000 (or 2001...whatever it was at the time the GF3 ti200 came out.) We tried driver after driver....and even used the same driver I was using to no avail. So, we decided to put my VT card in his PC and see what would happen. His PC worked flawlessly at that point. So we decided to put his Gainward in my PC and see if mine would crash like his did. Nope...it worked without a hitch. So we decided to swap video cards and we haven't had a problem to this day. I have since upgraded to another GF card, but that card is still working fine in my wife's PC.

I guess if a PC can be flaky about a certain video card, a video card can (without making any excuses for it) be flaky about the driver revision it uses.

Good luck!
 
thx for the input tom, I'm going to try this video card in another system as soon as I can. Anyone else know what might be wrong?
 
That's weird. I used to be only able to only use older detonators back when I had a GF1 and the problem turned out to be due to my GF1 sharing the same IRQ as my sound card.
 
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