Geforce 2 errors related?

ovoco5

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Hi all,
Today I'm the proud owner of a bouncing Gainward Geforce FX 5900 XT Golden Sample Card.
After installing the card and adding another power supply to it I've found I've got two errors.
1. When I login I get the message - 16 BIT MS-DOS SUBSYSTEM -c:\windwos\ui\biosctl.exe
c:\windows\system32\autoexex.nt. The system file is not suitable for running ms-dos and microsoft windows applications. Choose 'close' to terminate the application.
I generally select close and forget about it, but then when load up EXPERTool to zap the my golden sample up to Enhance mode, the ENHANCED MODE BUTTON is missing? and I have only the safe mode sitting there 8-(

When I first turned on the pc I got a message that the safe mode was going to be initiated as there was not enough power to the card. I've since swapped the extra power supply to one of my CD Burner drive, as that only sucks more power when I seldomley use it.
When I run 3Dmark03 my pc locks up as well - before with my older Ti4200 the benchmark ran like a dream (hopefully slower of course!)
Using Driver cleaner I've uninstalled the Nvidia card and then resinstalled it but still both problems are still there.

>>just to add a little extra in here - I've uninstalled EXPERTool - and after reinsatlling it got the MS-DOS error and again was unable to use the Enhanced mode setting as the button was not there still<<

Any help would be much appreciated.

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by ovoco5 on 09/04/04 04:33 AM.</EM></FONT></P>
 

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Are you running Windows XP?

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ovoco5

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Sorry yes,
I'm running Windows XP with SP2 and Direct X9 0C. My main board is an MSI Nforce2 k7n2 Delta AGP 8X.

Cheers

Greg
 

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i think a clean xp installation would be in it's place..

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ovoco5

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That seems a little drastic. Is there nothing I can try before that.
I'm quite new to all this, so would it be just a matter of putting in my XP disk and reinstalling it, yet keeping what programmes I have already installed?
 

ovoco5

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I just tried to reinstall win XP - but once my system rebooted to start the download of system files to my hdd, I got an error message "ACPI.sys is currupted" set up could not complete and just rebooted me back to my usual Windows XP -
I'm starting to get the feeling I've opened a can of worms 8-(

Any help as ever would be much appreciated.
 

GeneticWeapon

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Use msconfig to kill any program that's causing the problems with your startup, or system restore your computer back to a much earlier date.

I have a K7N2 also...great board.



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ovoco5

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The problem with doing a restore is that it would go back before I'd installed the New Geforce card. The problem I feel lies around EXPERTool - not sure though the ACPI error is related to that though.

Me too I've had this motherboard for some time and have to say I'm ver happy with it.

The FSB says it can handle anything between 333 and 400. My cpu is only a 1.8, which I'm sure isn't using it to it protential - what CPU do you use?

Cheers


G