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I have been through 3 operating systems this week (WIN 98Se, ME, 2000 Pro and XP Pro)but none will run properly with my Sparkle Geforce 2 MX 200. In ME the PC will not boot into windows but I get a blinking green and red cursor in top left of screen. In 2000 and XP everything runs fine until you open any graphic based program (games, CAD, Photoshop etc.) then the systen freezes and you get the bluescreen telling you that the problem is NVdisp4 or similar. In XP the system reopens and reports a problem with the Geforce. I have all latest drivers and everything runs great in WIN 98 but I desperately want to run 2000 or XP. I also have tried seceral drivers including ones that came with the card and I have disabled other programs that are running. Can anyone help. System:
MSI KT133a Mobo PRo Turbo 2
Via chipset
Sparkle Geforce 2 MX
Athlon 1 ghz
512 MB PC133
USB tablet, optical mouse and keyboard
PCI 128 sound
40 Gb Western Digital Hard Drive.
Please, please help!

I have much the same system and the same AGP card, running win2k pro and every thing runs fine.
Format your HD and perform a clean install of 2000/XP then install the drivers for ur Geforce 2 and everything should be fine.
If not you could make sure your onbaord graphics are disabled incase it is clashing with ur G Card. and also make sure you have the latest DirectX drivers. eg. 8.1
If all this dont work your Geforce 2 is rooted.

Hehe, just do a search for
"Geforce2 problems"
on google and see how many thousands share the pain!! :(Seems to be mainly associated with via chipset...
I can point you to www.geforcefaq.com which has lots of suggestions if you have lots of time... the prob is every setup is a little different than the next person's, there doesn't seem to be a magic "cure-all" to fix the problem. :(
Also check out http://forums.viaarena.com
A little more "creative" searching like "KT133a Geforce2" or even putting a space before the "2" may bring you results closer to what you're looking for...
g'luk!

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