nvidia driver issue

[Miguelinho]

I just finished building my first computer two days ago. Everything seems to be working fine except for my PNY TI4200 AGP graphics card. The issue appears to be with the drivers. Windows XP recognized the card and assigned a driver, but I want to use the NVIDIA driver. I went to NVidia's website and downloaded the Version: 71.89
Release Date: April 14, 2005 WHQL Certified driver and applied it. After rebooting the monitor just went into standby mode. I'm using a Dell 17" monitor from about 4.5 years ago. Help me out.

 

[Joshua05]

well... I don't think the problem is with your monitor... are you able to get windows to boot and see the screen?

If you can't boot normally, boot in safe mode and roll back the drivers.
Are you running on SP2?

 

[Miguelinho]

No, I can't boot into windows, the screen goes into standby mode and I can't see anything.

I am using SP2

I will roll back the driver, any other suggestions to get the NVIDIA driver to work?

 

[powerup]

The newest drivers will do you no good for a 4200. The only drivers you need are the ones you can get from windows update. I had some problems when I had my 4200 a while back. It was the new drivers. The latest drivers are not made for old cards.

 

[Miguelinho]

The latest drivers are not made for old cards.

Well, it is a supported card according to the products supported list

Products supported

I used to use the latest drivers from NVIDIA for my RIVA TNT2 and they worked fine with the latest drivers and that is an older card than the Geforce 4TI 4200. Nevertheless I will give this a try, thanks for the tip.

 

[powerup]

What I mean is there is no real up dates for the older cards. the cards are not DX 9 and the drivers do not help the card any more than the drivers from microsoft. While the older cards are supported by the newer drivers they serve no real improvements.

 

[PG]

Sounds like the refesh rate got messed up somehow. It's probably trying to run a higher rate than the monitor can handle so it just goes into standby.
Get into safe mode and mess around with refesh rates there, then reboot and see what happens.
The latest Nvidia drivers should be fine, but if you need to you can uninstall them from safe mode.
Now you'll ask how to get into safe mode and I can't really remember. I think it's F8 or something like that when it's booting, but past the BIOS stuff.

Oh, and when you install drivers make sure your anti-virus is disabled or they won't install right and you'll have some problems.

 

[Miguelinho]

Ok, I've done all kinds of things to try and fix the problem and so far I still cannot get drivers to work with my video card. The device manager does not recognize the card . I rolled back my computer from XP service pack 2 and tried some of the older nvidia drivers like the 40.72. After restarting the computer, after the xp splash screen, the computer showed a distorted image before the monitor went into standby mode again. I am not having any luck with the Nvidia drivers.

Sounds like the refesh rate got messed up somehow. It's probably trying to run a higher rate than the monitor can handle so it just goes into standby.

I booted into safe mode but cannot change the refresh rate of the montior. The display control panel only lets me use the "monitor default" for the refresh rate under the monitor tab.

The only drivers you need are the ones you can get from windows update

I would like to get the windows update drivers but how do I get them. XP does not recognize the card so Windows update does not know what driver to look for.

Help please.

 

[BFG10K]

Did you remember to install the latest chipset drivers for your system?

 

[Joshua05]

The only times I have ever gotten a distorted image from my card is when i overclocked it and it got too hot, or if I had a defective card

Use the process of elimination to find where the problem lies... try a different monitor to see if the issue is in the refresh rate... try a different card to see if its a chipset problem on your mobo... feel the bottom of your card when windows is loading the login screen.... if its too hot that you can't hold your finger on it for more than five seconds, than a clock speed is messed up

if you smell smoke... thats prly not a good thing either... ;D

Make sure that all of your clock speed are set to default... don't try to troubleshoot while things are overclocked.