Help Needed Troubleshooting Video Card

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My daughter has a system, Win98, Geforce 2MX videocard. Suddenly video
card isn't working. It shows up in Device Manager. I can only set it
it to 16 colors 640X480. When I try to install the newest drivers, it
installs ok but when I reboot, as soon as windows starts, I get a
black screen. I have to reboot in safemode and make sure the setting
is 16 colors 640X480. No Nvidia icon is present in the tray. I noticed
the card is set to IRQ 5 if that means anything. Refresh rate is set
to monitor default. Any ideas? Thanks.

 

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Have you booted to Safe Mode and removed any/all video/display devices and then
rebooting/reinstalling? If 2 or more of the same device show there may be
driver conflicts/corruption.

Did you get the drivers from:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win9x_77.72.html

You also mention 98, not 98SE. I notice the drivers at the site link have
DirectX 9.0 which has caused some issues with 98.

Can you get to the display wizard/configuration via Display > Settings >
Advanced and run the troubleshooter?

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"Tarkus" <tarkus@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> My daughter has a system, Win98, Geforce 2MX videocard. Suddenly video
> card isn't working. It shows up in Device Manager. I can only set it
> it to 16 colors 640X480. When I try to install the newest drivers, it
> installs ok but when I reboot, as soon as windows starts, I get a
> black screen. I have to reboot in safemode and make sure the setting
> is 16 colors 640X480. No Nvidia icon is present in the tray. I noticed
> the card is set to IRQ 5 if that means anything. Refresh rate is set
> to monitor default. Any ideas? Thanks.