I am reconfiguring an older system for the son of a friend, and am having the following problem:
This was a windows 98 system and the TNT card seemed to work fine, but now when I install windows 2000 (Yes Fresh Install) it automatically puts in its own Creative Graphics Blaster TNT driver, rather than the typical standard PCI VGA driver, and when I change the video to anything other that C, the basic 640 x 480 and/or 16 colors, the screen goes black and does not come back. When I reboot, it goes through the black status bar, then the colored Windows status bar and then right when the desktop is supposed to come up, the screen goes black.
If I go to save mode and get it reset back to 640 x 480 and 16 colors, it continues with the screen going black just when the desk top is supposed to come up. The only way to get it back is to remove the driver and let windows reinstall it.
If we try to remove the driver and install any other driver, it always shows up as the same driver that we start with, and we continue to have the same problem.
Q1) Does any one have any ideas about what is going on and/or how to fix it?
Q2) What is the best Detonator for the TNT 1 and Windows 2000?
BTW, this is an old PC-Chips Slot 1 AT MoBo with a Celeron 266 @ 400 (Yes we have tried everything at the standard 266 with the same results). If I can get this all working, I have a 366 that I want to try at 550 (This CPU ran at 550 for a year and an half on an Abit BX6 with no problems).
This was a windows 98 system and the TNT card seemed to work fine, but now when I install windows 2000 (Yes Fresh Install) it automatically puts in its own Creative Graphics Blaster TNT driver, rather than the typical standard PCI VGA driver, and when I change the video to anything other that C, the basic 640 x 480 and/or 16 colors, the screen goes black and does not come back. When I reboot, it goes through the black status bar, then the colored Windows status bar and then right when the desktop is supposed to come up, the screen goes black.
If I go to save mode and get it reset back to 640 x 480 and 16 colors, it continues with the screen going black just when the desk top is supposed to come up. The only way to get it back is to remove the driver and let windows reinstall it.
If we try to remove the driver and install any other driver, it always shows up as the same driver that we start with, and we continue to have the same problem.
Q1) Does any one have any ideas about what is going on and/or how to fix it?
Q2) What is the best Detonator for the TNT 1 and Windows 2000?
BTW, this is an old PC-Chips Slot 1 AT MoBo with a Celeron 266 @ 400 (Yes we have tried everything at the standard 266 with the same results). If I can get this all working, I have a 366 that I want to try at 550 (This CPU ran at 550 for a year and an half on an Abit BX6 with no problems).
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