Name: silviah Date: January 21, 2005 at 20:13:08 Pacific Subject: video failure OS: WINDOWS ME CPU/Ram: AMD Duron (tm);2.0GB
Comment:
4 weeks ago, my computer would only work in 16 color graphics, i have downloaded and installed a million things, i cannot figure the problem out. i need to know what a display adapter vs display driver is, also, when i load the NVIDIA drivers, supposed to be whats installed, the computer crashes, with either black screen or a deivece initialization error in configmg system halted; i have to restart in safe mode, load the standard pci graphics adapter, restart; it then loads up pci-vga display adapter and nvidia drivers, i dont restart, computer is okay with only 16 color graphics, if i restart, dead computer. what am i missing?thanks for any help:)
chipset is the chips on the motherboard like intel, via, amd & sis. check your motherboard manual & cd for info & drivers. do you have cd for videocard???
Im still a bit confused, I have a south bridge ViaVT82C686A; north bridge ViaVT8363/VT8365 (KZ133/KM133). Then when I look at system devices in device manager i see VIA Tech VT82C9x CPU to PCI Bridge and I don't know what that is; then at the PCIdriver site, for my NVIDIA Vanta driver, it says chipset NV5???????????? Also, right now my system is running well, still on 16 color, but onder device manager, i see display adapter standard pci graphics adapter, properties tell me it cannot load the required drivers code 23; other devices pci vga compatible display adapter, driver not installed code 28. i think this may be a bios problem???thanks for all your help
Im sorry, I failed to mention that I tried to check my BIOS by pressing f10 at the red compaq on startup, I could not locate anything that had BIOS information.:)
maybe I'm doing something wrong. I downloaded previously stated files, installed, restarted , no change in my graphics problem. Updated the STandard PCI Graphics Adapter to NVIDIA Vanta/Vanta LT, restarted, got blue screen "Windows error while initializing device CONFIGMG need to restart, system halted". I started in safe mode fine, I checked the Bootlog.txt file: Load Fail = pnpdrvr.drv failure Code is 0002 Load Fail = DISPLAY.drv Failure Code is 0002 Now I am out of safe mode, running fine with same graphics problem of only 16 color resolution. When I check my device manager, there is Display Adapter> the only one is Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA) with a yellow exclamation point, status says the loaders for this device cannot load the required drivers ( Code 23); there is also Other Devices, the only one is PCI VGA-Compatible Display Adapter with a yellow exclamation point , status drivers for device not installed (Code 28) there is an option to reinstall. I am putting things in the wrong place? YIKES TO THIS!:)
maybe I'm doing something wrong. I downloaded previously stated files, installed, restarted , no change in my graphics problem. Updated the STandard PCI Graphics Adapter to NVIDIA Vanta/Vanta LT, restarted, got blue screen "Windows error while initializing device CONFIGMG need to restart, system halted". I started in safe mode fine, I checked the Bootlog.txt file: Load Fail = pnpdrvr.drv failure Code is 0002 Load Fail = DISPLAY.drv Failure Code is 0002 I changed the display adapter back to Standard PCI Graphics Adapter(VGA), removed the NVIDIA and Now I am out of safe mode, running fine with same graphics problem of only 16 color resolution. When I check my device manager, there is Display Adapter> the only one is Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA) with a yellow exclamation point, status says the loaders for this device cannot load the required drivers ( Code 23); there is also Other Devices, the only one is PCI VGA-Compatible Display Adapter with a yellow exclamation point , status drivers for device not installed (Code 28) there is an option to reinstall. I am putting things in the wrong place? YIKES TO THIS!:)
doesn't anyone know what to do? It seems like the problem might be in the sytem.ini file- maybe its double loading something? what is a primary driver, secondary driver?which is which?pleasehelp:(
We're having the same problem. Are using Windows ME and the NDIVIA 8MB Vanta video card and driver. It will run find for 16 color resolution but that's all. I have extensively searched microsoft.com and ndivia.com and found little help. I did find a mention of problems (search the Microsoft Knowledge Base for article Q270715). It says the system will hang when you running an AMD Duron processor (which we are). Hanging is one of the problems, i.e. when you try to change the 16 colors to 256 and do a restart, it hangs. Another article in support.microsoft.com (article 253912) says the system will hang when you have large amounts of RAM installed.
I don't know if the problem is with NDivia or Millenium. Sure wish someone would shed some light on this for us. Thanks!
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