satis
8-18-03, 03:52 AM
ok, it's my turn to ask a question. :) Anyway, I'm not sure if anyone can help me, but I can't find the answer online anywhere.
I have Windows XP professional... the stupid O/S is acting up on me, so I'm looking at having to reinstall it soon. That's fine. However, here lies my problem...
I have a Visiontek GeForce4 ti4600. When I try to install Windows with that card in, all's well and good until about 2-3 screens before when you enter the CD key. At that point I guess the video resolution changes or something, and the screen just gets really badly garbled.
I restarted the installation a couple times with the same effect. At the time I had a GeForce2 available to me, so I just pulled out the ti4600, slapped in the GeForce2, restarted the installation and all was well. Once Windows was fully installed, I would switch the cards out again and proceed on my merry way.
Unfortuanetly, now the 2 is in another machine, so this previous plan of attack really isn't very feasible. Besides, I'd like to correct the issue. I've spoken with some people I know, and a few have commented this is a 'known' issue and there's a BIOS update to fix it. Well, for the life of me I can't find anything, anywhere online even mentioning a similar problem. Nor dos Visiontek have ANY BIOS updates for my vidcard, nor does nVidia.
Anyone have any ideas? Just for the record, the garbling has only occurred to me on another computer... when I initially built and installed XP on this one, I just used the GeForce 2 so I wouldn't have to deal with the issue. It's possible it was something with the other computer, but before getting stuck with a dead system I figured I'd ask.
I have Windows XP professional... the stupid O/S is acting up on me, so I'm looking at having to reinstall it soon. That's fine. However, here lies my problem...
I have a Visiontek GeForce4 ti4600. When I try to install Windows with that card in, all's well and good until about 2-3 screens before when you enter the CD key. At that point I guess the video resolution changes or something, and the screen just gets really badly garbled.
I restarted the installation a couple times with the same effect. At the time I had a GeForce2 available to me, so I just pulled out the ti4600, slapped in the GeForce2, restarted the installation and all was well. Once Windows was fully installed, I would switch the cards out again and proceed on my merry way.
Unfortuanetly, now the 2 is in another machine, so this previous plan of attack really isn't very feasible. Besides, I'd like to correct the issue. I've spoken with some people I know, and a few have commented this is a 'known' issue and there's a BIOS update to fix it. Well, for the life of me I can't find anything, anywhere online even mentioning a similar problem. Nor dos Visiontek have ANY BIOS updates for my vidcard, nor does nVidia.
Anyone have any ideas? Just for the record, the garbling has only occurred to me on another computer... when I initially built and installed XP on this one, I just used the GeForce 2 so I wouldn't have to deal with the issue. It's possible it was something with the other computer, but before getting stuck with a dead system I figured I'd ask.