GeForce FX5200 problems

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harrygrey382

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Hi,
new to these forums.
Just bought a used GeForce FX5200 T128 off another fourm. supposedly working. No drivers supplied. I plugged it in (monitor to new card) and booted up, display seemed fine (basic colours but...). I did a google search and supposedly came up with the correct drivers (92.31 I think).
The installation went halfway then the screen went black with grey dots. Then the monitor went on standby. I turned off, removed the card and rebooted. Everything fine. Uninstalled what was there of the drivers and dl'd another version (earlier one).
Exactly the same result, but I left it quite a while when the monitor turned off. Only this time when I rebooted without the card, there was a blue error. It said I should remove the new hardware/drivers insafe mode. I tried to enter in safe mode. Wouldn't boot up. I went into the bios and tried to remove 'shadowing' or 'cashing' but cuoldn't find them (i was told to do this by the blue error screen).
I'm now stumped. Can anyone suggest anything please? (windows 2000 btw)
 
thanks.
But that's if I get it going...
I don't know what last known good config. was. I just removed the card, and it's always worked. But I can't find any other settings in the bios. I'm at a loss even how to get onto windows
 
When your pressing F8 to go to safe mode, instead of pressing safe mode use Last Known good configuration think its about 3 down from safe mode
 
got it. ALl back to normal.
Still not much joy though. I dl'd the driver you linked me too. It goes a bit further - it finished installing successfully and tells me to restart. When I did this, I could see all the DOS stuff fine but when it hit a windows screen, the screen displayed random windowish colours then turned off. So I'm back to default...
Is this a problem with the card? What to now?
 
tough... disable the video card in the bios.. else windows will see 2 display adapters.. and that can screw up ofcourse :)
 
If you cant disable it in the bios, boot with the onboard, go to your device manager disable the onboard there. Shut down, put in AGP card, reboot and see how it works!
 
ok, so i'm looking at it with the onboard. The only display device is the onboard. There's no option to disable. Only uninstall. I'm thinking this isn't wise as what do I do if the new card doesn't work.
Looking at it with the geforce (after driver installation but before restarting) I can see the geforce driver. Everything seems fine. But no onboard driver visible to disable.
So do I uninstall the onboard while using the onboard? Surely this would muck things up big time
Thanks for the help guys btw
 
just searched the bios again. Defo no option to disable the onbaord vga. But there is an optionto change the 'vga apeture size' (think that's what it says) from 64mb to 128mb (size of this card). Do I do this? WIll it help?
 
Ok,.. you have the pc running with the onboard grafics.. you turn of the pc, put in the fx5200, and then what? you boot it up, go into the bios and disable the onboard grafics? ( should be in a tab called Onboard devices, or advanced chipset feats. i think ) anyway,.. if you have the fx5200 in the pc (and the monitor connected to it ofcourse) and you boot the pc up then, do you get a screen of windows loading etc? if so, your card is working fine :)

(also... there must be an option to disable it somewhere.. since else the card would still be using some of your RAM, without it actually doing something ;) )

just keep in mind the fx5200 isnt the newest card around... so it might not work with the newest drivers around. maybe try this one forceware 81.85 :)
 
yep, i boot up with geforce, go into bios, then into advanced chipset feats. There is no option to disable onboard. But there is an option to switch between "onboard VGA", "PCI" and "Add-on AGP". I choose the latter. Then run it.
Get into windows, (bad graphics) install driver. Restart, get to windows loading screen, then after that the screen goes funny, then the monitor goes on standby.
I'm losing a bit of patients here, it seems logical it should work. I'll try that driver you directed me to.
 
it seems that your windows has some sort of problem running the nvidia drivers,, I recall a friend having a pretty similair problem with his fx5200.. he installed the Omega drivers instead. ( Omega drivers is a 3rd party driver set for nvidia cards.. but its discontinued, so the newest cards aren't supported
 
Restart, get to windows loading screen, then after that the screen goes funny, then the monitor goes on standby.
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That sort of sounds like you are running at more resolution than your monitor supports. If you boot into safe mode and set it to something like 800x600x256 colours does it work?
 
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