Troubleshooting an El Cheapo FX 5200 video card

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Ben Salisbury

I'm running a Chaintech made Nvidia FX5200 with 256meg
Both the Vista beta drivers failed to work and I have been incrementally
going back to earlier driver versions starting from the latest ones.
I'm now into the 92.XX series of drivers and I can boot up regularly. It's
very unstable and normally crashes within 1.5 to 2 minutes.
Since I have yet to be able to play with vista and learn it's ins and outs.

Would someone be kind enough to detail out the fastest way to switch Vista
to it's lowest performance settings?
keeping in mind I may only have 1.5 minutes to pull it off.

Thanks!

-Ben
 
Here's a couple to start you off:

Right-click on the Desktop, choose "Personalize from the context menu, click
on "Visual Appearance" and uncheck the checkbox for "Enable transparent
glass."

Right-click on the "Sidebar" and choose "Exit" from the context menu.
 
Hmm, I have one of those in a PCI slot and it's working fine. I'm using the
drivers from MS (right-click card's icon in Device Manager and update the
drives using "Automatically Search...").
 
AGP here (forgot to mention), tried the MS defualt ones first and I get the
garbled graphic bars along the bottom of the screen.
It's good advice though, I've seen those work in many of the cases on the
forum.

-Ben
 
I'll give it a shot tonight,
..
Thanks

-Ben
Mark D. VandenBerg said:
Here's a couple to start you off:

Right-click on the Desktop, choose "Personalize from the context menu,
click on "Visual Appearance" and uncheck the checkbox for "Enable
transparent glass."

Right-click on the "Sidebar" and choose "Exit" from the context menu.
Click to expand...
 
Thanks Mark

It wasn't the glass it was the sidebar causing the crash....
I left the system on all night and it didn't lock up.
but now I can go through and start working on why the sidebar was causing
the crash.

However....I really didn't like that piece of fluff...So I do not know how
much effort I'm going to put into it.

After I DL'd the updates, I went to activate and it failed....so I tried the
800# and it failed too, but the live rep worked :)

-Ben
 
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