Grofaz

Hey all

I know that I should know better by now, and if my system is working correctly I should leave it alone. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I installed the latest Nvidia drivers (84.21) recently, and my machine continually crashed.

Specs from Aida 32:

Computer
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180

Motherboard
CPU Type AMD Athlon XP, 1166 MHz (5.75 x 203)
Motherboard Name Asus A7V266-E (5 PCI, 1 AGP Pro, 1 ACR, 3 DIMM)
Motherboard Chipset VIA VT8366A Apollo KT266A
System Memory 512 MB (DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award Medallion (11/07/01)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM2)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)

Display
Video Adapter NVidia GeForce4 Ti 4400 (Leadtek WinFast A250)
3D Accelerator NVidia GeForce4 Ti 4400

Multimedia
Audio Adapter Creative SB Live! Sound Card

Storage
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive IBM-DJNA-352500 (24 GB, 5400 RPM, Ultra-ATA/66)
Disk Drive MAXTOR 6L040J2 (40 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
Optical Drive LITE-ON CD-RW SOHR-5238S
Optical Drive OEM CD-ROM F566E

Partitions
C: (NTFS) 38162 MB (4868 MB free)
E: (FAT32) 24391 MB (970 MB free)

Note that the second HDD is an old one I put in the computer to get at some old data, and never got around to changing the file format.

Input
Keyboard Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse Microsoft USB Basic Optical Mouse (IntelliPoint)

Network
Primary IP Address 192.168.1.100
Primary MAC Address 00-50-BA-C7-4D-A0
Network Adapter Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC (192.168.1.100)

Peripherals
USB Device USB Human Interface Device

After a bit of playing around I ended up going back several versions to the 81.95 Forceware drivers, as they were the latest that didn't crash my system on boot.

After this driver installed correctly, and thinking I had solved the problem, I pointed the Hardware Update Wizard at the .inf file, and now I get this error:

Cannot install this hardware
There was a problem installing this hardware
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400
An error occurred during the installation of this device
The parameter is incorrect.

And when I look at Device Manager it says:

Video Controller (VGA Compatible)

and has the yellow exclamation mark indicating it isn't installed properly.

Prior to this the machine was running fine, but I don't recall what version of the Nvidia drivers I was running, and I of course uninstalled them correctly, firstly using Nvidia's Driver Installation Hints Document, and later even trying Driver Cleaner Pro with no change.

I am also looking for a driver for my monitor, which is a Dell Trinitron Ultrascan 1600HS Series D1626HT. I remember when I first bought it I found the driver on the web, but now am unable to locate it again.

Any ideas/suggestions on any of the above appreciated

mike2h

the best drivers for that card(after much testing on my part) are the omegas 5672. with the zp 66 coming next. jmo.

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