Re: Strange problem

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From: Ken Briscoe (youcant_at_sendmespam.invalid)
Date: 04/01/04 

Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 08:14:14 -0500

"Larry Samuels" <larry@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:unOLCL4FEHA.3132@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> We need to know what video cards you are using. Some video drivers were
> broken by sp1--but only on certain motherboards which is why a bios flash
> fixes it.
> My guess is you are using a geforce 2 mx video card.

The original was on-board, not a separate card. When it got all flaky on me,
I disable this in the BIOS and threw in a random one I had around the house.
Truthfully, I have no clue what it is, and I didn't bother installing the
drivers for it. It's using the generic drivers. Which, now that I think
about it, are the problem to begin with. Anyway, I went ahead and flashed
the BIOS last night (AMI - lemme tell you what a nightmare that is, just
*finding* the BIOS on the internet), and it hasn't crapped out yet, but it
usually doensn't do it when not in use anyways, so the next couple days are
going to be the test.
Thanks for ideas, everyone. 

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