Hello, I have a very confusing and long fought problem. Here goes in order of events.....
I was asked to upgrade a friends HP Pavillion A520N (Asus A7N8X-LA). He knows to never buy prebuilt again! :thumbsdown:
I uninstalled all nvidia drivers (add/remove programs - Nvidia drivers - removed all nvidia drivers) turned off machine, installed PNY Geforce FX 5500 in AGP slot and restarted the machine.
I entered bios setup to change default graphics source and found there was only 2 choices: PCI and AGP/Onboard. AGP/Onboard was already selected so i figured the machine will automatically detect if an AGP card was installed.
Computer booted nicely and found the new hardware. Installed new Nvidia drivers 66.93 which were downloaded previously. Installation was done using the new found hardware wizard and then rebooted.
Again computer booted nicely, nvidia settings icon showed up in system tray, changed screen resolution to 1280X1024 (LCD Samsung Synmaster) and I was done....so i thought.
The only reason for the video upgrade was to improve Battlefield Vietnam play. Game was playable with onboard video, but barely. Well, after upgrade, the game will not even load. As soon as the EA logo animation appears onscreen it slows to a crawl, I mean like a frame per 10 secs! The computer runs Age of Empires perfectly and with video settings set for best quality.
The computer was recently formatted and had a fresh install of Win XP SP2 with all the updates done. Not from restore cd but from new XP disc.
The only other hardware change done to the system is a Belkin wireless card in a PCI slot, but the card was removed and game was run again without it in and the problem persisted.
If anyone has any insight or reccommendations to this problem I would be very greatful.
Thx
I was asked to upgrade a friends HP Pavillion A520N (Asus A7N8X-LA). He knows to never buy prebuilt again! :thumbsdown:
I uninstalled all nvidia drivers (add/remove programs - Nvidia drivers - removed all nvidia drivers) turned off machine, installed PNY Geforce FX 5500 in AGP slot and restarted the machine.
I entered bios setup to change default graphics source and found there was only 2 choices: PCI and AGP/Onboard. AGP/Onboard was already selected so i figured the machine will automatically detect if an AGP card was installed.
Computer booted nicely and found the new hardware. Installed new Nvidia drivers 66.93 which were downloaded previously. Installation was done using the new found hardware wizard and then rebooted.
Again computer booted nicely, nvidia settings icon showed up in system tray, changed screen resolution to 1280X1024 (LCD Samsung Synmaster) and I was done....so i thought.
The only reason for the video upgrade was to improve Battlefield Vietnam play. Game was playable with onboard video, but barely. Well, after upgrade, the game will not even load. As soon as the EA logo animation appears onscreen it slows to a crawl, I mean like a frame per 10 secs! The computer runs Age of Empires perfectly and with video settings set for best quality.
The computer was recently formatted and had a fresh install of Win XP SP2 with all the updates done. Not from restore cd but from new XP disc.
The only other hardware change done to the system is a Belkin wireless card in a PCI slot, but the card was removed and game was run again without it in and the problem persisted.
If anyone has any insight or reccommendations to this problem I would be very greatful.
Thx
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