Re: Help!!! Display Adaptor problem!

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From: Noel Paton (NoelDPspamless_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 12/31/04 

Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 10:08:13 -0000

I think your problem is that there are very few PII motherboards that
support AGP8 cards (most only support AGP1 or 2) - so you're likely to
either burn out the card or have other major problems - as you're finding
out!
check out your board's spec at the manufacturer's site. 

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"Eggenberg4Ever" <spmodea@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:D6C0198A-A30A-40F4-99BC-DD3C0D835496@microsoft.com...
> I've just inherited a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 from my brother (no drivers 
> with
> it).
> I have a Pentium 2 sys (also inherited, trying to cobble together a 1/2
> decent home sys for free).
> I plugged the adaptor into my sys, all things seemed ok until I checked 
> the
> device in the device manager section of XP. What do I see? The old yellow
> exclamation mark & a sys message that says "This device cannot start (Code
> 10)".
> I downloaded the driver from the NVIDIA site in case this was the cause 
> but
> using this driver instead of the ones on XP makes no difference to the 
> device
> status.
> I have all the necessary screen display etc. (otherwise I wouldn't be able
> to type this), but the device refuses to show as being ok on device 
> manager.
> What do I need to do to get the device to 'agree' with my sys &, if I 
> can't,
> is it going to make a big difference to my ability to play games (not
> graphically hungry games like Doom3 et al, just Age of Kings & games of 
> that
> genre)?
> Any help/advice much appreciated.

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