geForce 2 mx is crappin

[SuperYo]

My specs are runing win98 on pentuim celeron 450 mhz with 256 ram. 40 gig hard drive. I recently installed a geforce 2 mx card but it only allows 600 X 400 res. What gives. I know it should allow better then that. I used to have a voodoo 5 and that allowed alot better but it went down the crapper so please help me with my geforce card. Its getting depressing.

SuperYo

[the_mp3_refuge]

This can be due to 2 things really. first when you installed you GF2 MX did you remove your old video drivers? If not this would be causing conflicts, and only allowing the 640x480 resolutions. The second question is do you have the latest drivers installed? or installed properly? Again that can cause problems. To fix this first make sure u have the GeForce 2 MX latest drivers. You can pick em up at www.nvidia.com . Then right click on my computer, click properties, click the device manager tab, under display adapters remove any adapters that are there, and restart. When it asks for the adapter drivers, install them, or if the drivers are an .exe(which I think they are) just boot into windows without installing them, then double click on the exe, install them, and restart. Sorry to hear about ur GF2 MX probs. I had this prob when I built my pc but mine still holds it own in the games. Peace:2cool:

[SuperYo]

did delete old drivers but i will try the new ones at the site thanks

[YeOldeStonecat]

Yes follow the directions on unloading your old drivers properly, yanking out the voodoo ones also. When ever you change drivers on an AGP card, be it for a different card, or simply upgrading drivers on your current card, you have to unload the current drivers cleanly by changing your current adapter type to PCI Standard VGA card, rebooting, then changing your adapter again, have disk, point to directory when you unbuckled your latest drivers.

Also reboot into safe mode, check Device Manager, remove all your old monitors and any other vid cards if any left. Rebooting into safe mode, you'd be surprised to see how many old devices you didn't remove properly that still have drivers hanging around cluttering up things. You'll find multiple monitors, mice, cd-roms, IDE controllers, etc.

You should find the GF2 MX performance pretty close to the V5, depending on which version drivers you use, and if/how much you overclock it. It should look much better. The GF2Ultra is the fastest.

Current official nVidia drivers from their website are 12.41, if you hunt around the net, you should find 6.50 or 6.72 drivers are the fastest. They did a big jump up to 10.80 and above from 6.50 since the GF3 came out, the drivers are all backwards compatible, but Det4 drivers above 10.80 dont' perform as fast as 6.50 on pre GF3 cards.

[|sFX|AD]

Also...make sure that you removed your old video card from your device manager in system properties. If you did not this could cause conflicts with your old card and your new one.

[CAR-15]

Like AD said, remove your old video card from your device manager but do it from safe mode because sometimes windows keeps an extra copy of it.