Video Card driver won't install

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From: JohnS (JohnS_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/24/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:35:04 -0700

I came in to work this morning, booted my system and it was in 640x480.
Logged in and was able to jump up to 600x800 (and beyond) so that was good.
Problem is that the refresh rate was way low and is hurting my eyes. I
checked in Device Mgr and it has a ! by it. Properties says this:
"Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be
corrupted or missing. (Code 39)"
So I removed the Video Card and replaced it with a known good nVidia TNT2.
Same problem. Uninstalled all video components I could find in safe mode,
reboot and still no joy. Put a PCI video card in just to see if it has to do
with the Motherboard but it still will not allow me to load a driver. I
reinstalled DX9c and that did not help either. DxDiags reports that the
directx.cpl is old but I have no clue how to reinstall that alone.

If anyone can help with this one, I buy lunch in San Diego..;-]

JohnS

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