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video card works fine until XP starts

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dmw16

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I have a GeForce2 GTS and Windows XP on my older computer and something isnt right. It has been working fine for a while now, but the other day I took it out a put a heatsink on(it didnt have one before but worked fine). So anyway, I turn the computer on, it runs fine through BIOS and everything and even the screen that says "Windows XP" and has the loading bar thing on it. But after that all i get is a little messed up little piece of color in the top left of the monitor. So I put an old cirrus logic card in and everything loads, but the system runs slow. Nothing loads to the desktop and i cant figure out what the hell is going on. Should I just reinstall windows or something? Might that help?
thanks,
-doug
 
The GeForce is AGP and the cirrus logic is PCI, but they arent in at the same time. I thought it could be a short, but everything is fine until it comes time to display the logon screen in XP.
thanks,
-doug
 
You could have damaged the gf2 when you put the heatsink on it. I did the same thing to my Radeon. IT didnt want to even work right in the BIOS though and forget about windows. I dont think the damage is repairable either. How bad is the problem? I couldnt even get a readable image in Windows.
 
safe mode is my next move. I was at work all evening so I havent had time to fiddle with it. I dont think their is any physical damage though because its fine until it's time to load the drivers.
thanks,
-doug
 
Did you put some type of adhesive, like Arctic Silver epoxy? Where did you put the heatsink, on the GPU itself or the video RAM? Its so easy to short something. I did the same thing to my Hercules GF2 MX before ( good thing Hercules replaced it without question).
 
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