Re: Strange problem

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.

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Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
"Ken Briscoe" <> wrote in message
news:u$kCd%...
> Figured I'd come here and seek your help, as you guys claim to know what
> you're doing...
> Anyways, my parents have a computer with XP Home on it. It's a Systemax
> system bought from god-knows-where, probably TigerDirect, so it's got a
> "hidden" partition that houses a sparkling-clean image, used to restore
the
> computer back to "factory conditions". They were having a lot of trouble
> with spyware and general clutter, so my father went ahead and backed up
all
> his important files and such, then blew everything away by using
Systemax's
> tools to load the clean image. That worked fine. He loaded all SPs and
> updates, then AdAware and AVG, then started in with Office, Winzip, and
> other stuff. By the next day, he says that the computer would get halfway
> through booting, then just stop and turn off. So I took a look at it. Sure
> enough, it gets halfway through booting and the video goes out. Hard drive
> and fans still going, just the video seems to go. So I booted it into safe
> mode, and it booted up, but after 10 minutes or so, the video went. So I
> replaced the video card, but the problem persisted. So, I booted it in
> diagnostic mode, and it seems to crap out when loading agpcpq.sys. This is
a
> known problem with Windows 2000 but not for XP. See here:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;258079
>
> SP1 *is* loaded, along with all available updates (huh, updates). Short of
> flashing the BIOS, which seemed to work for this guy:
>
http://www.3dlabs.com/support/forum/...&message=22037,
> does anyone have any ideas? If not, I'll just go ahead and flash the BIOS,
> and see what happens.
>
>
>
> Oh, screw you, you're not getting tinyurl's from me today. Watch the wrap.
>
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>
> KB - MCNGP "silent thug" #26
>
> first initial last name AT hotmail DOT com
>
>

Larry Samuels

"Larry Samuels" <> wrote in 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.
>

yes I seem to remember the same thing from Compaq...

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Neil
"you'd do what, to who, for how many biscuits?"

Neil

"Larry Samuels" <> wrote in message
news:...
> 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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first initial last name AT hotmail DOT com



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Virus? In the computer? Are you serious?
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.619 / Virus Database: 398 - Release Date: 3/10/2004

Ken Briscoe

"Ken Briscoe" <> wrote in
news:ekO4Lr#:

> "Larry Samuels" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> 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.
>
> --
>
>
> KB - MCNGP "silent thug" #26
>
> first initial last name AT hotmail DOT com
>
>
>
> ---
> Virus? In the computer? Are you serious?
> Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
> Version: 6.0.619 / Virus Database: 398 - Release Date: 3/10/2004
>
>
>

good luck. If that doesn't work we can always blame it on solar flare
activity, or the fact that its Thursday. (friggin computers....bane of my
existance....grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr)

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Neil
"you'd do what, to who, for how many biscuits?"

Neil