Topic: Nvidia Drivers on old PCI TNT2 Card

[DualBoy]

Hey all. Having a problem with a system of a customer. SHe has a
no name brand TNT2 PCI video card. I went to Nvidia.com and downloaded
the newest drivers (Because they are suppose to work on all TNT and Geforce
cards) However when it reboots the system just freezes in the windows starting
screen (Windows 98 SE) so I went to safe mode removed the display drivers and
rebooted. Works fine without them. I next tryied the Nvidia archive section of the
sites (did this before on a older TNT card in another system that had the same
issue) this time it did not work either. Its a very strange thing. Now
I was finally able to get 16Bit colour but I have no ability to change
the resolution from 640x480. I hope when I contact the woman (who owns the computer)
that she would have the origianl driver CD then I can just remove the current
ones and use her cd. Anyone know whats causing this?

The system is:
Celeron 333mhz, 96MB SD-RAM, 8GB harddrive, and a very strange motherboard (no name)
built by one of the cheapo computer shops. The board still has a AT Keyboard and a
serial Mouse connectors only and integreated everything including a VGA onboard which
I have disabled thru a jumper. I must say its giving me quite a headache for a job
that usually takes very little time.

Thanks all.

[bat69]

You did what I would have tried ... the old drivers. Although I have had a similar problem once and it was down to a conflict with a monitor driver, once I installed a driver for the monitor, not the 98se generic one, the problem was sorted.

Don't know if that is of any help  :-";"xx

[Adept]

Up until recently, I used to have an on TNT2 card in one of my PCs which worked fine with the then current nVidia Detonator drivers.

The only thing I can suggest is that you remove the card from device manager and when Windows re-detects it, install the generic VGA PCI card software (is it PCI?).

You should then be able to boot into a standard VGA desktop from which you can run the Detonator installer.

Let us know how you get on

[DualBoy]

Did all of that with the system already. Then today I was able to fiddle with a few of the config files and blamo got it working. Yes it was an older PCI TNT2 card. Tried the original and the newest drivers for it. I installed DX 8.1 on the system and all is well now for video gamming. (Very limited to the not so new games). The system is now done and back in the hands of the family that owns it.

[bat69]

Great, thanks for letting us know how you sorted it as its very useful for future reference   8)