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G-FORCE 2 MX
Name: Mark Date: December 21, 2001 at 09:58:44 Pacific
Comment:
I've been downloading the latest drivers for the above mentioned card. When I install the card and boot up I keep getting a couple of bleep noises and a blank screen. I am replacing a matrox millenium which works fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Name: drG. Date: December 21, 2001 at 10:16:25 Pacific
Reply:
Are the bleep noises happening during the POST routine or after XP starts to boot. Is the screen blank from the moment you turn on your computer or does it blank out durning the OS boot process? Can you boot into safe mode with the screen working? Did you uninstall your matrox drivers first? If you put the Matrox card back in, does the computer boot normally. Was your old card agp or pci. Did you check your bios video settings? Did you try resetting your bios?
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Response Number 2
Name: Mark Date: December 21, 2001 at 10:29:33 Pacific
Reply:
Some great questions there and as I'm a beginner I'm not sure what to do. Its an AGP card. When I switch the pc on, the screen remains totally blank, hard drive light stays on. The matrox card was agp as well and works as soon as I put it in the machine. I've reset the bios, but have not yet checked the bios video settings. The bleeps happen a few seconds after switching the pc on, screen stays blank. I'll hace a look at the bios now and see what happens.
Thanks!
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Response Number 3
Name: drG. Date: December 21, 2001 at 11:29:03 Pacific
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While your machine is running with the Matrox, uninstall the drivers for the Matrox, & for the geoforce, if they are still there. Shut the machine down & switch cards. Reboot, if you still get a blank screen, reset the bios at this point. Reboot again & theoretically you should have video. After you successfully boot up with the geoforce, then install the new drivers. The nvidia reference drivers work well for my geoforce2mx400. 'http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=windows2000' XP/2000 is very sensitive to hardware changes, before moving anything around on the motherboard or upgrading cards, the relevant drivers should always be uninstalled first.
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Response Number 4
Name: Jeroen Date: December 21, 2001 at 12:29:12 Pacific
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When you get the bleeps in the begin on startup, and your screen stay black, that have nothing to do with drivers. In the bios are some wronge settings or your card is broke. (I go for the last one, sorry)
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Response Number 5
Name: Big Date: December 21, 2001 at 13:10:35 Pacific
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card is bad. take it back and get a new one.
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Response Number 6
Name: drG. Date: December 21, 2001 at 14:23:12 Pacific
Reply:
Jeroen you're right about the beeps, I kind of got sidetracked with the driver issues. The card could be bad, but chances are it's not seated properly.
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Response Number 7
Name: NauTY Date: December 21, 2001 at 20:50:40 Pacific
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Actually.. I know a few people that are having the same exact problem with Windows XP and the GeForce2 MX card.. to be exact, about 4 other people have been experiancing the same problems. I have a GeForce2 GTS PRO card, and I've downloaded the latest drivers from Nvidia as well... and I'm experiancing problems (blue screen's and such) dealing with the card as well. Hopefully Nvidia will realize this, and do something about it.
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