Help!!! Videocard installation problem!!!

cimetiere

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Oct 21, 2001
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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!!!


 

TheBlindMan

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It sounds like a hard drive problem to me. Perhaps when the GF3 is installed the registry filegets big enough to encounter a bad block/sector on the drive. Check the drive for errors with Check Disk and be sure to do a surface or sector scan. If the drive is under warranty and it has bad blocks, it may be replaced.

Keep me posted.