GeForce 2 MX new driver problem

450 Mhz Pentium III
GeForce 2 MX 400
WinXP

The crux of my problem is that I get the exclamation point in a yellow
circle, in the driver display in the DEVICE MANAGER next to GeForce 2
MX/400. When I scroll, although text is readable, it waves, and I
didn't have that before.

I've tried installing/uninstalling the GeForce 2 driver(s) in a
variety of ways: Add/Remove from control panel, from device manager,
using wizard, and tried installing the latest one from the NVIDIA
site, or installing the year old one from the MS Update site, and I
still get the same problem. The only thing I haven't tried using the
GeForce 2 driver that came with the video card when I got it. I can't
find it. Probably in the garage with the box the card came in or
something. Anyway, I've read various newsgroup postings, read the
advice on the NVIDA site, and I'm still vexed over this issue.

I have a NEC flat panel with Liquidview (to increase font size), and
I've tried varients of removing that, and adding it, in case that was
causing the problem.

Just last week, my display was working fine, but I had a hard drive
disaster with a new partition attempt going awry (my fault, I didn't
make recovery disks), and I had to reformat my hard disk and start
from scratch, re-adding all my software and drivers, and doing the
70MB of "updates" from the Windows site, all with my slow connection.

Before I did the reformatting and reloading of my hard drive, I
attempted to get into WinXP (my computer would stop before loading
windows) by changing various paramaters in the SETUP and perhaps
something I changed there is making this problem.

What is frustrating is that I know I had this driver problem once
before, and I worked it out, but I forgot how I did it.

If anyone has any suggestions, based on their experience, I would
appreciate it.

Dirk

Okay, I solved my own problem 2 minutes after I posted this by doing a
little searching. I went into the Bios setting (click on the Delete
key while booting up) and needed only to change the "Assign IRQ to
VGA" setting to ENABLE.

Then, I tried the latest NVIDIA driver, instead of the Micropoop
recommended year old one, and I love it. Coolest thing Nview can do is
rotate the screen 90 degrees or upside down, none of which I can use,
but it will be a fun goof to show friends. The image looks great now,
and no glitchiness or wavy lines.

This fix will probably work only for people who "accidentally"
restored settings to default in the BIOS/SETTINGS area.
Dirk


(Dirk) wrote in message . com...
450 Mhz Pentium III
GeForce 2 MX 400
WinXP

The crux of my problem is that I get the exclamation point in a yellow
circle, in the driver display in the DEVICE MANAGER next to GeForce 2
MX/400. When I scroll, although text is readable, it waves, and I
didn't have that before.