Help!!! Videocard installation problem!!!

[cimetiere]

Hi!

First, let me congratulate you for the good services your are providing to people!

I now need your help!!

I have bought a PNY verto geforce 3 videocard recently, however, I have faced a lot of problems with the installation on my asus cuv4x Via APPollo 133 chipset (pentium III, 733 Mhz, soundblaster live value, 2 ethernet cards, 300W powersupply). I have the latest 4in1 Via drivers and detonator 4. Each time I was booting, I could not reached windows me since it was saying "error in windows registry, windows will fix it and will reboot". When I pressed OK, it seemed to be fixing the registry problem and then it rebooted. However, once booted I got the same message again and again, along with other error messages such as "error OE, error V&D, error in help..., etc... all sorts of errors annoyed me one after the other. Even going in safe mode brought me the same error messages!!

I finally got tired and fed up of this, and reformatted my system, hoping that this would solve this problem with a new/fresh intallation settings... Then, the same problems occured again... Once windows me got reinstalled, I got the same error which was in the windows registry (no details was provided...)

Having another videocard, which is a geforce 2 gts, I got fed up again and put this videocard back. Then, everything went back to normal...

In order to make sure that my geforce 3 was not the problem, I tried to install this verto card in my second computer, which is much older system (p2-99 asus mobo, pentium III Katmai 500 Mhz), and it worked!! This older system has an intel 440 ZX chipset... and I got no problems... There is something wrong here!

Is it because of incompatibility with VIA chipsets?? I did not buy this geforce 3 card for my p2-99! I want it in my cuv4X! Please help!!!


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[bacillus]

could be a problem with your ram.
use memtest86 to check it out!
btw what type of ram do you have?

 

[cimetiere]

I have 512 megs RAM, pc133, but I do not know where it comes from!!, i.e. which company...

 

[neutralizer]

use sissoft sandra to check the kind of ram you have.

 

[dcdomain]

<< on my asus cuv4x Via APPollo 133 chipset (pentium III, 733 Mhz, soundblaster live value, 2 ethernet cards, 300W powersupply). I have the latest 4in1 Via drivers and detonator 4 >>



Wait... that's a Pentium system and you still installed the VIA drivers? I thought the VIA drivers were only for AMD based VIA systems not Intel based VIA systems.

 

[bacillus]

<< I thought the VIA drivers were only for AMD based VIA systems not Intel based VIA systems. >>


well it's got a via chipset!

 

[cimetiere]

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My Mobo is a cuv4x, so an Asus mobo for pentium, but a VIA chipset (694Z chipset) Appollo Pro 133. Not only AMD has VIA chipset!

 

[neutralizer]

nope... VIA makes chipsets for P4 like the P4X266

 

[Mem]

Normally when this happens I would go right back to basics,which means use minimal hardware(just video card)reformat & clean install of OS and Via drivers right after OS is installed,also go into bios and make sure all video shadowing is disabled and system bios cacheable is also disabled then see what happens,if fine install other hardware one at a time.

 

[dcdomain]

Yeah I know VIA produces Intel chipsets, but I thought the Via 4 in 1 drivers only pertained to AMD based VIA chipsets. But I guess not, just looked up your chipset at Via's homepage and they had the drivers next to it.

Anyway, I had similar problems on my rig. Turns out my MSi K7T pro2a mobo might be dying. Have you tried booting up with just the basics? I did everything, swapping stuff out and the problems still persisted so I narrowed it down to my mobo...