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Alexei 2000-09-17 20:14
Hi,
I am trying to setup dual monitor machine and was wandering if people might have already heard of/experienced the problems I am having.
Motherboard -- ASUSTEK P2B-D with dual celerons @466, not overcloked or anything.
AGP adaptor -- cheapish TNT2 M64 card.
As a second PCI adaptor I have tried Creative TNT and TSENG Labs ET6000.
Operating system -- W2K Server
The problem: with either of the PCI adaptors installed the system is not stable, it locks up on a attempt to move a window between monitors. Sometimes it just freezes, sometimes it gives a warning displaying garbled lines first and then locks up.
I have tried the lates nVidia drivers -- no luck.
I did, at some stage, had it working, but under w2k workstation and only with native windows drivers (the ones from win CDROM).
I have also managed, I think, to narrow down the problem to the resolution -- it seems that if I set the same resolution (and colour depth?) on both monitors it works.
The questions:
1. How do I force win to use drivers from the CDROM, and not pick up cached ones?
2. Any ideas of what the hell is going on?
Thanks and regards,
Alexei
PS. to e-mail me directly --- cleanup e-mail address
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Christian Studer 2000-09-19 05:05
In the upgrade driver wizard, choose 'Display a list of the known drivers', you should then be able to select the original drivers from the list (they are cached as well, in C:\WINNT\Driver Cache\i386\driver.cab).
No idea what the problem is though, you might also want to boot in safe mode and remove all display adapters to get a clean system again.
Good luck,
Christian Studer
http://www.realtimesoft.com
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Alexei 2000-09-19 20:21
Thanks,
I will try that, but it appears to me that W2K server (advanced) does not come with all the plentora video drivers that are present on workstation. I did a clean install and neither setup nor hardware wizard could detect my AGP TNT2 card. Had to get the driver from the internet, and it locks up.
What a shame really.
Alexei
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DJ Rocco 2000-10-22 16:32
Win2k Server has the same amount of drivers as Win2k Prof.
Have a similar Problem with a P2B and those freezes...:-( (3DFX V3 and S3)
Already tried:
-disable ACPI in Win2k
-checked Server and Prof.
-disabled PnP in BIOS
now I will check the hint with irq10 (ISDN ISA) and another PCI card.
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dwightus 2000-11-05 10:37
I've a similar problem. I've a Dell Dimension XPS which came with an Nvidia TNT2 M64 AGP video card which used to work flawlessly. However
I recently bought an ATI all-in-wonder 128 PCI video card.
Now whenever I open display properties and go to
settings my system will freeze. I tried reinstalling the ATI drivers and the nvidia drivers but no luck.
I don't know if the problem is the nvidia card.
I think i'll try another video card in the machine
with the nvidia and see if it's the problem.
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