"Chingy" wrote in message
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WOrse come to worse maybe you need to reinstall everything including OS...



"John" wrote in message
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MSI G4Ti4200-TD
ASUS A7V266-E
Audiophile 2496

This card has been fine under 98 and win 2000. On a clean install of XP
the
PC freezes up each time I install *any of the XP drivers. I've tried the
lastest ones down to the oldest in the Nvidia archive. The pc runs but
if
I
try to open the nvidia options (to adjust hardware acceleration say) it
freezes. Same if I run explorer or anything else.
Short of starting from scratch what can I do to pin point the problem?
XP
always picks it up on boot.

John




I have narrowed the problem down a bit.
After a clean install the first I did was install the 61.77 drivers. No
problems everything runs fine. I install Doom 3 (and the version of direct x
it offered me) and it locks up straight away when I tried to run it;
straight away not even getting as far as the opening credits. I uninstall
doom but the problem persists - I can't run anything (iexplorer etc) without
the pc freezing. I uninstall the drivers and we are back to square one. Same
problem with FS2004 and like doom that has run fine before on the same
hardware. Updating the direct x version seems to make no difference.