Hi. I'm trying to help my friend out. He has an older E-Machines pc running windows 98(not sure on if its SE or not). It has onboard video and sound. He plays Everquest and Diablo 2 and some casino slot machine game. All run fine, albeit sometimes choppy because of his lack of power in the Hardware. He just bought a new videocard recently and is having some problems. He bought a TNT 2 32 meg card, but in the box it said CONGRATS YOU'VE BEEN UPGRADED TO A GF2 MX 100/200 or something like that, anyways, when windows installs the card it says gf2 mx 100/200 and it is 32 megs of memory on the card. I have installed a couple different versions of drivers (including the latest detonator) and i'm getting this problem: When he runs Diablo2 or Everquest, when it tries to load the game it goes to a black screen and the monitor light starts blinking (as if the connection to the card was lost). On that Casino Slots game, it loads up, but once he gets into the game, the sound stops working (sound works at first in the main screen and such, just when the actual gaming starts...the sounds goes byebye). I installed his videocard on my pc (midrange pc, winxp pro) and tried running Soldier of Fortune 2 to test it out and it said "OpenGl initialization Failure". Is this card compatible w/ opengl, and if so are there any versions of drivers for it that work better w/ opengl games and such??? I made sure he/I didn't have any programs running in the background just in case that was causing something. Thank you for reading, and any help is appreciated.

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I'm thinking inadequate power supply. I'm assuming onboard video is disabled. That card will likely ask for an additional 30w from the power supply. Have him take a look at his power supply and try to post back how many drives, cards and so forth installed on that machine. It may all add up to too much. Skip