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Old September 7th 04, 05:59 PM
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Ben,

I would agree with Bill, older cards usually work better with older =
drivers.

Anyway, you could bootup in Safe Mode and search Device Manager for =
multiple entries under Display Adapter, delete them ALL and reboot, =
letting Windows reinstall the drivers.

Zee




"Bill Sumrall" wrote in message =
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Can't help, but same problem more or less here. I have to use my old
original (2001) drivers to get my TNT2 Model 64 to work. Have given up
on updating drivers as buggers up computer. I'll get a new card &
drivers someday I guess.
Bill
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On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 09:18:48 -0700, "Ben Snyder"
wrote:
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My 600 mhz desktop system locks up after a short time of=20
usage. When this happens, I can only shut the machine off=20
via the switch. It seems to stem from the PCI Nvidia=20
graphics card I installed. I downloaded the newest driver=20
from Nvidia's website, but this was no help. Every bootup,=20
the message comes up saying "new PCI video driver=20
detected". In "My Computer"/"System", I finally have it so=20
there are not 2 drivers listed (one with an exclamation=20
point), under "Display".Windows will look for the correct=20
driver". I click "cancel" at this message, and the bootup=20
continues normally. If I let Windows search for=20
the "better" driver, select and install it, it plays havoc=20
with the machine (boots to Safe mode, won't display=20
greater than 256 colors, etc.- much playing around then=20
needed to get even the half-assed performance described=20
above). It's possible that the driver conflicts with=20
NetZero vers. 7.0 software---but these types of video=20
driver problems have existed at different times even=20
prior to NetZero.

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Bill