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Video card issues with nforce

bigdog1218

bigdog1218

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I've been slowly upgrading my parents computer over the past 6 months, and I mean slowly.

I purchased a Asus A7N266-C mb which has the nforce chipset and gave them my 1 ghz amd athlon, bought 256mb mem and everything was working fine.

The computer never fully shut down, and was very slow on graphic heavy programs due to the 16mb voodoo3, so I decided might as well upgrade that so they would have a completly brand new computer. Now, I was going for just a simple upgrade and something cheap so I bought the 64mb radeon 9000 for 60 beans shipped.

I had all the new drivers for the nforce installed, popped in the Radeon, boot up install the drivers for that, restart, and then nothing. After the Windows 98 boot up screen the computer just restarted and started to load again. Putting the voodoo3 back in and everything is fine.

Anyone ever see any issues like this before, should I just get another vid card or is there something I can do.

Thanks
 
Originally posted by: bigdog1218
I've been slowly upgrading my parents computer over the past 6 months, and I mean slowly.

I purchased a Asus A7N266-C mb which has the nforce chipset and gave them my 1 ghz amd athlon, bought 256mb mem and everything was working fine.

The computer never fully shut down, and was very slow on graphic heavy programs due to the 16mb voodoo3, so I decided might as well upgrade that so they would have a completly brand new computer. Now, I was going for just a simple upgrade and something cheap so I bought the 64mb radeon 9000 for 60 beans shipped.

I had all the new drivers for the nforce installed, popped in the Radeon, boot up install the drivers for that, restart, and then nothing. After the Windows 98 boot up screen the computer just restarted and started to load again. Putting the voodoo3 back in and everything is fine.

Anyone ever see any issues like this before, should I just get another vid card or is there something I can do.

Thanks
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"the computer never fully shuts down" sounds a lot like what is happening to my nforce computer.
 
Yeah, I think it was the vid card that was messing with the shutdown.

Anywho, if anyone cares to help I have a little more info, I reinstalled all the orginal windows drivers and got rid of all the nvidia drivers then installed the radeon 9000 and the computer booted up fine. But, the problems now are I get errors when trying to install the latest catalyst drivers, and the performance is absolutly horrible, about 5-10 fps on CS and even lower on Unreal.

Should I just get rid of the ATI card and get an Nvidia card?, or is there something I can do to make everyone be friends.

thanks
 
Sounds like you need to get rid of the old 3dfx drivers. Simpelist solution is to save all the data you need and do a freash install.

Good luck

Will
 
Yeah i've tried the fresh install a couple of times,

First I installed all the nvidia drivers, got on the internet and updated them to 2.0 version then installed the radeon drivers and the screen goes black on the next boot up.

Then fresh installed again, installed the ati drivers first, restarted and everything works fine, except for horrible performance 5-10 fps on most games, 1600 3dmark score, just crap, and once i installed the nvidia drivers the black screen came up.

I'm just gonna get a new vid card, but i'm worried there's something wrong with the agp slot, cause my pci card works fine.
 
hmm.. fresh install doesn't help this at all??
does the NForce2 come with any AGP drivers? perhaps the system is missing a vital driver it needs..
 
I've installed the newest drivers from the internet so I think I've installed all the drivers needed, is there a possible problem with the mobo, i mean i now know that if I install the nvidia agp drivers and the ATI drivers it won't work, but I can't believe that i'm the only person thats ever had this problem or one similar to it, like I said I'm gonna go with a new card tomorrow and see whats up.

Thanks for the help, time to leave this devil creature alone for the night.
 
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