ok, i belive i have found the cause of all my graphics problems... someone had told me it was a conflict between my hardware that was causing all the problems..

my monitor stopped working

now this other monitor dosnt work

sounds a bit funny eh?

how could both the monitors i have both deside to play up at the same time?

anywayz i checked the system info and under conflict/shared was 5 conflicts between "SIS accelerated graphics port" and "NVIDIA Geforce FX 5600XT"

and another under between "PCI BUS" and the 2 above

is this normal? or a problem.. and does any1 know how to fix this?

iv been having countless problems with my computers graphics sisnce i got it.. shall i just get new motherboard/CPU and graphics card?!! PLEASE HELP!!!

i checked the system info and under conflict/shared was 5 conflicts between "SIS accelerated graphics port" and "NVIDIA Geforce FX 5600XT"

What make/model motherboard?

It sounds like you have a board with integrated graphics, but you installed a video card (crappy one) without disabling the onboard video.

Have a look at your motherboard manual...in the BIOS section...probably something about shared RAM

Asus A7N8X-X
1800+ @ 8.5 x 200MHz
768MB PC3200
Asus A9550 128MB/128-bit
Gamer Edition
WinME/WinXP Pro

sorry lol, i didnt understand much of that.. my motherboard is crap apparently... its a

GIGABYTE K7 TRITON GA-7S748-L

please keep the suppost coming... im completely baffed on this 1..

support*

im looking through it atm..

Oooops, I confused your card with another...the 5600XT isn't a bad card.

OK, I had a look at your board's specs...it doesn't have onboard graphics. My guess would be you either had an SiS video card installed & didn't uninstall the old drivers properly, or you need to install the SiS AGP chipset driver. You can get it here:

http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/Driver/Driver_GA-7S748-L.htm

Asus A7N8X-X
1800+ @ 8.5 x 200MHz
768MB PC3200
Asus A9550 128MB/128-bit
Gamer Edition
WinME/WinXP Pro

rightie, thanks for the help so far =)

any ideas on how to install the shipset drivers?

after extracting the files to the destop when i click the setup it comes up with an error... C:\windows\system32\autoexec.nt. The system file is not suitable to running MS-DOS and microsoft windows applications. Choose "close" to terminate the application."

the geforce 4 and 5600 are the only cards i have installed on this comp

quick question.. would doing an complete format fix the problem?

chipset drivers wont install still =( is there a manual way of doing this?

any1 alive out there?

right. i done a bit of looking around and found that it was a problem with some system files, iv now fixed it and installed the chip set drivers... but im still getting a problem with this monitor..

every time i open a window it exspands the screen

i still have the same enteries in conflicts/shared.

this leads me to belive.. installing the chipset drivers done nothing.

It's a bit unclear which driver you are trying to install, but the 5600XT isn't the newest about so maybe the most recent driver shouldn't be used. I have the same card and I use 61.77, which can be found here. It works fine for me.
First uninstall the current driver, restart, install new driver then restart again.

HTH
Nigel

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iv been using the 61.77 with problems..

now im on the 7"."" driver which still has problems

no1 knows whats wrong with my computer?! =(

i hate this computer sooooooo much

Have you disabled the SIS on-board graphics in the BIOS???

AMD AthlonXP 2200+
Abit NF7-S v2.0
Geforce4 Ti4200 128mb
1GB Crucial PC2700
80GB & 120GB SATA HDD's
SB Audigy2 ZS
XP Pro + SP2

read up ^ my motherboard doesnt have on-board graphics...