4thHorseMan
Posts: 9 +0
This problem has been driving me nuts for days! I'll start at the beginning.
Two days ago I decided to reinstall windows because a few system files had been damaged by a recent virus attack. I didn't format because I had gotten rid of the virus, and just wanted to fix the files that were causing me to get small errors. When I reinstalled XP, it fixed the errors i was getting, but it introduced an even worse problem.
For some reason windows started to act like my video card wasn't there, yet my 2d apps ran fine.OpenGL games would not run at all, and d3d games ran very slowly with little white spots all over the screen, and bigger white patches in other places. I tried to install the lasest nvidia drivers, and older versions but that didn't help. Out of ideas, I right clicked on the desktop and went to properties,on the settings tab i noticed that rather than saying "Cm615 on gf4ti4200" like it usually does , it now said "default monitor on". there was nothing after "on".it was really wierd. when i clicked on the advanced button and the adapter tab,it was completly blank. Convinced that these problems were caused by not doing a clean install i decided to format and install XPpro from scratch.
After formating my hard drive and running fdisk,I restarted to load CD-ROM drivers. but for some reason it would not detect my cd-rom. arrgggg!!!
help! i'm going insane!
edit:
oh and here are my specs
1300mhz athlon (not overclocked)
512mb pc133
gf4ti4200
Abit kt7 raid (raid isn't used yet)
Mitsui Cd-ROM
Pioneer DVD-rom (tried switching to both, and tried new ide cable)
20gb quantumfireball
10gbwd
sblive value
i've also tried to boot from the cd-rom by playing with the boot order... it didn't help.. probably not working because its not dectected
Two days ago I decided to reinstall windows because a few system files had been damaged by a recent virus attack. I didn't format because I had gotten rid of the virus, and just wanted to fix the files that were causing me to get small errors. When I reinstalled XP, it fixed the errors i was getting, but it introduced an even worse problem.
For some reason windows started to act like my video card wasn't there, yet my 2d apps ran fine.OpenGL games would not run at all, and d3d games ran very slowly with little white spots all over the screen, and bigger white patches in other places. I tried to install the lasest nvidia drivers, and older versions but that didn't help. Out of ideas, I right clicked on the desktop and went to properties,on the settings tab i noticed that rather than saying "Cm615 on gf4ti4200" like it usually does , it now said "default monitor on". there was nothing after "on".it was really wierd. when i clicked on the advanced button and the adapter tab,it was completly blank. Convinced that these problems were caused by not doing a clean install i decided to format and install XPpro from scratch.
After formating my hard drive and running fdisk,I restarted to load CD-ROM drivers. but for some reason it would not detect my cd-rom. arrgggg!!!
help! i'm going insane!
edit:
oh and here are my specs
1300mhz athlon (not overclocked)
512mb pc133
gf4ti4200
Abit kt7 raid (raid isn't used yet)
Mitsui Cd-ROM
Pioneer DVD-rom (tried switching to both, and tried new ide cable)
20gb quantumfireball
10gbwd
sblive value
i've also tried to boot from the cd-rom by playing with the boot order... it didn't help.. probably not working because its not dectected