Nvidia Drivers Not Stable With Via?

hey,

well in the effort to save my computer i have made leeway!!! i have narrowed dow nthe problem to my video card ( i think) i havent installed the nvidia geforce drivers for it yet and the system is stable! Heres the kicker though, on my first hd i was running XP Pro sp1

Drivers: I tried the Nvidia 41.xx, 56.xx, and 61.xx

Hard drive 2: SATA MAxtor 80gb running windows XP Pro (no service pack installed)

Drivers: tried all three drivers listed above

Hard drvie 3: WD400 40gb running server 2003 and xp pro (no service pack)

drivers: on server 2003 i tried the drivers i got from the disk 41.xx and thats all. on the xp side i didnt install any drivers at all for the video card, no errors

So this is eitehr a bad video card, bad drivers, or coincidence. i really would like to use my video card, but i need drivers to do it, so how can i get the correct drivers for my card that wont crash the system?

Usefull specs: Palit daytona geforce fx5200 128mb card, MSIkt600 delta motehrboard wit hthe via vt8237 chipset

any help would be appriciated, i am going to take the comp in to the shop tomorrow and pay for it to be fixed if all else fails so remember: YOU CAN SAVE ME MONEY :woot:

thanks,

Pops

#209283

You're using VIA?

You HAVE upgraded the drivers for your VIA, then, right? 99.9% of problems with VIA boards are the drivers....

#209284

I owned one via board and i vow never to own another. Have you tried stuff like turning off fastwrites/agp 8x etc? Is the card overheating, cause if you dont have the drivers installed the card doesnt clock to its full speed afaik. Also your graphics card sucks, im sorry but if you want to play anything besides quake III you need a better one.

nVidia drivers rock, imho they are some of THE best drivers ever made, so i doubt thoes are the problem.

#209291

the via drivers that i have a re file version 2.4.1.0, via hyperion 4in1. i havent installed them yet. so what should i do? i like my mobo cause it's been stable until this month. school starts next week and i need a woking computer with video and the works, but i am afraid to install the drivers because they might crash the system, what should i do?

#209316

Setting a system restore point before installing the drivers and

restoring the saved configuration should be of no problem on XP...

#209397