Re: I think I've ALMOST got it...

From: Zach (Zach_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/06/04 

Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 17:13:04 -0700

I have all the latest drivers, but disabling the onboard graphics card sounds
like the right thing. How can I do that in the BIOS... what option should I
look for?

 ~ Zach ~

"Richard Urban" wrote:

> Obtain the very latest drivers for the Nvidia board (ver 61.77). Disable the
> onboard graphics in the computer bios.If you don't, you may have weird
> interactions that you can't control.
>
> Ps. The Nvidia board is way better than any on-board graphics I know of.
>
> --
> Regards:
>
> Richard Urban
>
>
> aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
>
>
> "Zach" <Zach@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:33E9BF5F-AC78-4BEF-A139-58FE996E0A60@microsoft.com...
> > To summarize my problem usign a previous post:
> >
> > "Ever since I got my computer I have had horrible random lockups... the
> > whole
> > computer with freeze up, including the mouse cursor, until I reboot, and
> > occasionally it will reboot itself. This can happen when it is being used
> > or
> > when it is idle. I have no idea what causes this but when I run a certain
> > game it says I have "out of date SiS chipset driver" which may be a hint
> > but
> > I dunno... i'm not even sure what that is. So if anybody could help me..."
> >
> > Now I just did an experiment where I removed the Nvidia GeForce2 graphics
> > card that I added into this pre-built Northgate computer, thereby allowing
> > the motherboard's built in graphics card to take over. (I have a S651M
> > motherboard). This worked. Then I deciderd to experiment... I opened up a
> > 3d
> > game that recently had been locking up every single time I used it, and
> > although the game was slow and the graphics choppy, it didn't crash at
> > all.
> >
> > So now I know the problem lies in my graphics card... teh question is, how
> > can I fix it? The graphics card worked perfectly well in my previous
> > computer. Is there some special process I need to go through when I
> > install
> > it so that my computer will stop locking up? Or are the graphics card and
> > motherboard just not compatible... or what?
>
>
>

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