Good Evening,
Here is my situation: I am running a Celeron 300a @ 450 with a Riva TNT based card (the Creative Labs one). I am running my system with Windows 2000 Professional. When I first install Win2k, the OS automatically detects my card and installs the driver that comes with the CD.
Now, whenever I try and download and install either the Creative Labs driver that is on their website, or some version of Nvidia's Detonator driver, I download it, double-click on it for it to install, and I restart when it asks me to. What happens then is that my machine reboots, and when Win2k comes back up, I am in a 640x480 16-color mode (in other words, VGA). So, I'm thinking that I have to change the resolution, no biggy. That's where the problem comes.
I right-click on my Desktop, click on "Properties", then as I click on the "Settings" tab, Win2k goes into a Blue Screen of Death, one in which I cannot get out of. The error message says something about having problems with VGA.DLL. It does this every time after I restart my computer (due to the crash), and the only way to fix it is to go back to my old driver that was initially installed. I have reformatted Win2k about 4 times in the past 3 weeks, and the same thing happens each time, so it's definitely not a software issue, but a hardware one, I'm guessing.
So, I decide to purchase a GeForce2 GTS chipped card, namely the Creative Labs one. I pop that sucker in, and install the driver that came with my card. Looks like it's working, so far, so good. Now, I go on the 'net and try downloading Nvidia's detonator driver (v6.31 to be exact), and I install it as the readme says. Boom, same thing happens, when I click on the 'settings' tab in Properties, the same VGA.DLL blue screen of death message comes.
I really think something is wrong with my motherboard. I plan on buying a new system in the next few weeks, so hopefully that will fix it, but for the time being, I am going nuts trying to find the problem. Can anyone please help me figure this out, or do any of you have any good advice or suggestions?
Many thanks in advance.
Saam Tariverdi
Here is my situation: I am running a Celeron 300a @ 450 with a Riva TNT based card (the Creative Labs one). I am running my system with Windows 2000 Professional. When I first install Win2k, the OS automatically detects my card and installs the driver that comes with the CD.
Now, whenever I try and download and install either the Creative Labs driver that is on their website, or some version of Nvidia's Detonator driver, I download it, double-click on it for it to install, and I restart when it asks me to. What happens then is that my machine reboots, and when Win2k comes back up, I am in a 640x480 16-color mode (in other words, VGA). So, I'm thinking that I have to change the resolution, no biggy. That's where the problem comes.
I right-click on my Desktop, click on "Properties", then as I click on the "Settings" tab, Win2k goes into a Blue Screen of Death, one in which I cannot get out of. The error message says something about having problems with VGA.DLL. It does this every time after I restart my computer (due to the crash), and the only way to fix it is to go back to my old driver that was initially installed. I have reformatted Win2k about 4 times in the past 3 weeks, and the same thing happens each time, so it's definitely not a software issue, but a hardware one, I'm guessing.
So, I decide to purchase a GeForce2 GTS chipped card, namely the Creative Labs one. I pop that sucker in, and install the driver that came with my card. Looks like it's working, so far, so good. Now, I go on the 'net and try downloading Nvidia's detonator driver (v6.31 to be exact), and I install it as the readme says. Boom, same thing happens, when I click on the 'settings' tab in Properties, the same VGA.DLL blue screen of death message comes.
I really think something is wrong with my motherboard. I plan on buying a new system in the next few weeks, so hopefully that will fix it, but for the time being, I am going nuts trying to find the problem. Can anyone please help me figure this out, or do any of you have any good advice or suggestions?
Many thanks in advance.
Saam Tariverdi
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