Regarding nVidia Problems

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PS:
It seems that since your monitor screen is black when connected to the built
in video adapter, your bios has already automatically detected that another
video adapter is installed. Try connecting the monitor cable to the new
nVidia card and just booting up normally.


If you have a built in video adapter, you must first disable it in the
system bios and specify wheater you wish an AGP or PCI or PCI-Express video
adapter to be your video source. Turn off your computer. Install your new
card and connect the monitor. It will boot up in VGA mode and you can
install the drivers. NVidia install checks for a campatable card or it will
not install. I have also noticed that if I boot into SAFE MODE (hold down
F8 while Vista Boots) I get better results with nVidia driver installs.
Also, previous nVidia drivers MUST be COMPLETELY removed first via Control
Panel Programs applet, AND MNUALLY removing the contens of the NVIDIA folder
via Windows Explorer.
 
/DCR/ said:
If you have a built in video adapter, you must first disable it in the
system bios and specify wheater you wish an AGP or PCI or PCI-Express video
adapter to be your video source. Turn off your computer. Install your new
card and connect the monitor. It will boot up in VGA mode and you can
install the drivers. NVidia install checks for a campatable card or it will
not install. I have also noticed that if I boot into SAFE MODE (hold down
F8 while Vista Boots) I get better results with nVidia driver installs.
Also, previous nVidia drivers MUST be COMPLETELY removed first via Control
Panel Programs applet, AND MNUALLY removing the contens of the NVIDIA folder
via Windows Explorer.
Click to expand...

No NVidia listings in Add|Remove Programs here, after install of 96.33.

A rollback to Windows WDM driver, then install of 96.85, succeeded.
Yet 1440X900 resolution is not available here with that driver, as it is
with 96.33.
 
Strange...

When I check all modes I get support for 1440 by 900 at both 16-bit and
32-bit (both with 60 Hz and 75 Hz) at the very bottom of the List All Modes
screen. [right click desktop, click Properties, Settings Tab, Advanced,
Adapter Tab, List All Modes Button, scroll to bottom, 16-bit at top of the
window and 32-bit in the middle of the window.]

Mine is 7600 GS what is your card?
 
/DCR/ said:
Strange...

When I check all modes I get support for 1440 by 900 at both 16-bit and
32-bit (both with 60 Hz and 75 Hz) at the very bottom of the List All Modes
screen. [right click desktop, click Properties, Settings Tab, Advanced,
Adapter Tab, List All Modes Button, scroll to bottom, 16-bit at top of the
window and 32-bit in the middle of the window.]

Mine is 7600 GS what is your card?
Click to expand...

Exactly that way with 96.33; 1440 X 900 being the last listings - that
are missing with 96.85.

This is an FX 5200 card, which also runs 1440 X 900 in XP. Though the
card is not the most highly power, this appears to be a driver-specific
issue.
 
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