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Reignfire · Jan 9, 2008, 11:06 PM

OK, I'll try to give as much info as I can in here in the hopes that a solution can be found.

Sempron 2800.
AGP 256mb Geforce 7600GT.
1.5gb ram.
Gigabyte GA-K8U motherboard.
Windows XP Professional w/ Service Pack 3 RC1 installed.

I downloaded the new (169.21 based) Omega Drivers with a view to trying them out. I uninstalled the Nvidia drivers as well as the registry entries etc left behind. After a reboot, I installed the Omega Drivers and rebooted again. This is where the problems started.

When Windows restarted, it crashed shortly after getting to the desktop with either a black screen or a multi-coloured smear of rubbish. Rebooted into safe mode, uninstalled the Omega drivers. Rebooted, reinstalled the Nvidia drivers (169.21 as before). Rebooted again, system crashes upon reaching the desktop. Booted into safe mode yet again and reinstalled my motherboard's agp drivers. Rebooted again and everything appeared to be fine.

This is where problem number 2 showed up. Whenever I try and run a game (currently installed is Call of Duty 4, Darkstar One and FIFA Manager 08), all I get is a black screen, although I can hear the sound from the games. The only way to get out of the games is to alt-tab out and kill the game via Task Manager. I have tried uninstalling, cleaning out and reinstalling my drivers (including different Forceware drivers), I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the games. I have tried reinstalling the latest Direct X redist from Microsoft's website.

None of these things have worked. Right now it appears that my only solution is to reinstall Windows, however I don't particularly want to have to do that unless absolutely necessary.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Jan 9, 2008, 11:06 PM	#1 (permalink)
Reignfire DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 3	Problem with Omega Drivers OK, I'll try to give as much info as I can in here in the hopes that a solution can be found. Sempron 2800. AGP 256mb Geforce 7600GT. 1.5gb ram. Gigabyte GA-K8U motherboard. Windows XP Professional w/ Service Pack 3 RC1 installed. I downloaded the new (169.21 based) Omega Drivers with a view to trying them out. I uninstalled the Nvidia drivers as well as the registry entries etc left behind. After a reboot, I installed the Omega Drivers and rebooted again. This is where the problems started. When Windows restarted, it crashed shortly after getting to the desktop with either a black screen or a multi-coloured smear of rubbish. Rebooted into safe mode, uninstalled the Omega drivers. Rebooted, reinstalled the Nvidia drivers (169.21 as before). Rebooted again, system crashes upon reaching the desktop. Booted into safe mode yet again and reinstalled my motherboard's agp drivers. Rebooted again and everything appeared to be fine. This is where problem number 2 showed up. Whenever I try and run a game (currently installed is Call of Duty 4, Darkstar One and FIFA Manager 08), all I get is a black screen, although I can hear the sound from the games. The only way to get out of the games is to alt-tab out and kill the game via Task Manager. I have tried uninstalling, cleaning out and reinstalling my drivers (including different Forceware drivers), I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the games. I have tried reinstalling the latest Direct X redist from Microsoft's website. None of these things have worked. Right now it appears that my only solution is to reinstall Windows, however I don't particularly want to have to do that unless absolutely necessary. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.