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Ti4200 installation problems (solved, but may be interesting).
Some time ago, I ran into a lot of trouble while doing a fresh
installation for someone. The computer was an AMD S754 2800+ on an Asrock motherboard using a VIA KT800 (?) chipset, AGP, 512MB and an old MSI GF Ti4200 graphics card. The problem centred around the gfx card. A straightforward installation of Win XP (SP2), mobo driver and nVidia driver didn't work. It was OK for desktop and simple 2D graphics, but hung or crashed in 3D. It failed DirectX tests, but always at different points whenever I changed the installation process. I finally solved the problem after a lot of head scratching. Here's a list of things that worked and did not work, in case someone finds them useful or amusing : 1. Part of the problem was that the owner had a custom Win XP install disk with SP2 and nVidia detonator 77.01. For diagnosing problematic systems, I have a Ghost of WinXP installed with SP2, DX9c, nVidia 81.15 and nothing else. Neither installation worked. 2. Since newer nVidia drivers are not compatible with some older cards, I went to the MSI website and noted that the latest driver that works with all MSI cards is 41.07, and that 45.32 is the latest prescribed for their Ti4200 cards. (He doesn't have the original driver CD). 3. Installing the older drivers over the newer ones and overwriting newer files didn't work. Not too unusual. 4. Installing older drivers over newer ones and NOT overwriting newer files still didn't work. 5. Uninstalling the newer drivers, restarting and then installing an older driver still brings up the option of overwriting or not overwriting newer files. Choosing to overwrite newer files does not work. 6. Choosing *not* to overwrite newer files during the above process worked, but only until the mobo driver is installed, after which it failed again. 7. It works only if the VIA AGP driver is uninstalled. 8. It does not work if the VIA AGP driver was not installed along with the rest of the chipset driver. It had to be installed and then uninstalled. 9. It does not work if the latest VIA unified chipset driver is installed initially - even if the above processes with AGP driver is followed. It works only if the chipset driver that came with the mobo is installed first. No problem if the updated version is installed later. 10. No problem if the nVidia driver is updated with the latest driver *if* the other sequences described are followed first. It took me a long time and a lot of patience to get everything right. A more experienced person could probably have figured it out more quickly. |
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Ti4200 installation problems (solved, but may be interesting).
A more experienced person could probably have figured
it out more quickly. well woop dee doo |
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