NVIDIA video card causes hangs at shutdown???

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"Marc Hunter" <hunter_m@ssc.cc.ok.us> wrote in message
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>I finally bit the bullett and upgraded to SP2 and then the system
>will not shutdown, it hangs at the "windows is shuttingdown" and the
>mouse freezes. i have a PNY NVIDIA fx 5200 128mb dual head video card
>that i think is the problem: here is what i have done. i tried a
>clean install and the computer will not even restart from the blue
>install screens so i decided to install SP1 again and all was fine. i
>thought at this point it was the motherboard so... i got a new one
>and got it all up and running with SP1. Then i upgraded to SP2 and
>the hang came back so i called PNY and they told me they never heard
>of any kind of error like this before (someone else out here posted
>similar problems and also had a fx 5200 which lead to belive my
>problem might be the VC) they had me check the Chipset drivers and
>they were upto date as well as the VC drivers,anyway they said call
>MS. i asked about a bios for the VC but thats not going to happen
>(from them anyway). now i have put an NVIDIA Riva TNT2 M64 in and it
>seemed to hang the same as the other. so i replaced it with an old
>ATI VC and it seems to be fine but i want my better VC to work. help
>anyone??
>
> OLD mother board: Epox EP-8KHA+
>
> NEW Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-7VT600-L
> http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboa [...] 201.x).htm
>
> CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1900+
>
> Memory: 512MB
>


You have the latest 4 in 1 drivers from Via?

The latest drivers from Nvidia? Try finding the Beta drivers from
Nvidia. I can't remember until I get home...I think it's...Never mind,
they just released them 71.84, I think the beta was 71.83 so make sure
you get 71.84.

You might try turning off Nview and see what happens. After you get
the latest Via and Nvidia.

BTW, tech support personnel are sometimes trained to pass you off onto
someone else~! It works! Check the message boards and find other cases
like yours and see if there's a fix!

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ok i have figured out what caused my problem so this is just an update for
anyone else that has this problem. I had a 1394 (firewire) card with an ALI
chipset, and when i removed it the computer started working fine with the
NVIDIA video card. some kind of strange conflict with SP2 the firewire and
the NVIDIA card how odd.



"Marc Hunter" <hunter_m@ssc.cc.ok.us> wrote in message
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> yes i have all of the current software drivers, but with it not restarting
> from the setup i figured it was going to be hardware, because they should
> not be loaded during the initial setup phase.
>
>
> "Slippery_one" <Slippery_one@nospam.net> wrote in message
> news:uHccRfCLFHA.572@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>
>> "Marc Hunter" <hunter_m@ssc.cc.ok.us> wrote in message
>> news:ua%23Bk3ALFHA.3380@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>>I finally bit the bullett and upgraded to SP2 and then the system will
>>>not shutdown, it hangs at the "windows is shuttingdown" and the mouse
>>>freezes. i have a PNY NVIDIA fx 5200 128mb dual head video card that i
>>>think is the problem: here is what i have done. i tried a clean install
>>>and the computer will not even restart from the blue install screens so
>>>i decided to install SP1 again and all was fine. i thought at this point
>>>it was the motherboard so... i got a new one and got it all up and
>>>running with SP1. Then i upgraded to SP2 and the hang came back so i
>>>called PNY and they told me they never heard of any kind of error like
>>>this before (someone else out here posted similar problems and also had a
>>>fx 5200 which lead to belive my problem might be the VC) they had me
>>>check the Chipset drivers and they were upto date as well as the VC
>>>drivers,anyway they said call MS. i asked about a bios for the VC but
>>>thats not going to happen (from them anyway). now i have put an NVIDIA
>>>Riva TNT2 M64 in and it seemed to hang the same as the other. so i
>>>replaced it with an old ATI VC and it seems to be fine but i want my
>>>better VC to work. help anyone??
>>>
>>> OLD mother board: Epox EP-8KHA+
>>>
>>> NEW Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-7VT600-L
>>> http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboa [...] 201.x).htm
>>>
>>> CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1900+
>>>
>>> Memory: 512MB
>>>
>>
>>
>> You have the latest 4 in 1 drivers from Via?
>>
>> The latest drivers from Nvidia? Try finding the Beta drivers from Nvidia.
>> I can't remember until I get home...I think it's...Never mind, they just
>> released them 71.84, I think the beta was 71.83 so make sure you get
>> 71.84.
>>
>> You might try turning off Nview and see what happens. After you get the
>> latest Via and Nvidia.
>>
>> BTW, tech support personnel are sometimes trained to pass you off onto
>> someone else~! It works! Check the message boards and find other cases
>> like yours and see if there's a fix!
>>
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