Buffalo
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I have the above combo on a Win2000ProSP4 system and the screen will go
blank (sometimes a second or less) shortly: 1-5minutes after bootup. When
that happens, I cannot play videos like youtube, etc (green screen where
video should be but sound works). However, if I start up a Halo game, let it
load to the selection page (the bottom three selections "settings" "credits"
"quit" are somewhat perforated in appearance) and then select the "quit"
choice, all is well for the rest of the day no matter what I play or surf.
Somehow Halo puts the video card back in the proper 'groove'. Like a VPU
recover thing.
I am using a Planar LCD 27" monitor and use a 1440 x 900 32bit and 75Hz
refresh rate on it.
I tried using different display settings and also using a 60Hz refresh rate
to no avail
I have an athlon mobile 2400 cpu and 2GB of ram.
I am using a HoneyX bios.
I have tried reinstalling the mb drivers and the agp drivers and video
drivers.
If I didn't have the Halo game to 'refresh' the vid card, I would be out of
luck.
My old ATI Radeon 8500LE card gave me no such problems.
I did delete all traces of old ATI drivers and also old Nvidea drivers
before reinstalling the Nvidea drives again.
When I uninstall the old Nvidia drivers and reboot, the display is so torn
and tattered (also tears when I move the mouse pointer) that it is VERY
difficult to install the drivers again.
Is this a mb problem, an os problem, a vid driver problem. I have two 7600GT
AGP cards (only use one) and both act exactly the same so I doubt it is the
vid card.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Buffalo