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| 94666 | 2002-10-30 18:21:00 | Hi I am using a GeForce2 MX 200 video card, clean installed Windows 2000 but am now stuck with 16 colours (I have tried several versions of the Nvidia drivers including the latest v30.82 for Win 2000/XP but no luck!). In Device Manager, the card is always shown with a yellow exclamation mark. I did see Microsofts article (Q268467) about ensuring that 'Assign IRQ to VGA' is enabled in the BIOS. I checked and it already is. For some reason, Windows 2000 is still not assigning an IRQ to my GeForce card. Any help on how to fix would be much appreciated. Thanks Alan |
akkk (2364) | ||
| 94667 | 2002-10-30 20:10:00 | Are you sure its the latest driver? Check at the geforce website. have you tried manually setting an IRQ like we use to have to do with Win 95? Double click on the exclamation mark and find your way into some advanced settings and have a fiddle. Sorry I couldn't be more help! | tarrangower (2382) | ||
| 94668 | 2002-10-30 20:15:00 | Things you can try: 1) Make sure that there isn't a PCI card in the PCI slot directly under the AGP slot. If there is then move the PCI card (I'm assuming that the Geforce is an AGP card). 2) BIOS upgrade. Have a look at your motherboard's website. 3) Update your motherboard drivers. 4) Turn off Power Management in your bios. 5) Check that the card is not defective by trying it in a second PC. Also check that it is firnly seated in the AGP slot. 6) Update Windows 2000 (i.e. service pack 3) 7) Install Windows 2000 as a standard PC and not as an acpi enabled machine. |
gibler (49) | ||
| 94669 | 2002-10-30 20:35:00 | >>> In Device Manager, the card is always shown with a yellow exclamation mark. What is the message that the yellow exclamation mark gives? If you double click on the item in device manager when there's a yellow mark, it should give you some indication as to what might be wrong (not always though). Secondly, when you load the latest drivers, unload any other drivers you've got running for the card so that it's running as "Standard VGA". Then restart and when it tells you it's found a new card, point it at the latest drivers, or tell it to stay on standard VGA and then run the latest drivers. HTH Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 94670 | 2002-10-30 21:43:00 | I don't know if this is the whole prob. that you are experiencing but hav a look anyway it may help Q325764 - Installing an AGP Video Adapter Driver May Hang the Computer When You Restart It (Q325764) support.microsoft.com rgds future |
future (1979) | ||
| 94671 | 2002-10-30 22:44:00 | Long shot... but what the hey: Are you sure you downloaded the right drivers? Once, in a fit of genius, I downloaded Nvidia's nForce drivers, not realising that they were for something other than the Gfx card entirely. I came up much the same problem that you have, 16 colour 640x480 desktop goodness. Just check that you have the proper Detonator drivers... again, this IS a long shot. |
Jemy_X (2081) | ||
| 94672 | 2002-10-31 07:39:00 | Am using the latest driver v30.82. Couldn't manually set the IRQ under the Device's advanced settings - all the buttons/boxes are greyed out. |
akkk (2364) | ||
| 94673 | 2002-10-31 07:43:00 | The message I am getting is error 10, the device cannot start. cheers |
akkk (2364) | ||
| 94674 | 2002-10-31 08:44:00 | > Am using the latest driver v30.82. Couldn't manually > set the IRQ under > the Device's advanced settings - all the > buttons/boxes are greyed out. > > IF the buttons are greyed out maybe there is something wrong with the OS? |
future (1979) | ||
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