Vid Card or Monitor Prob?!?!

honz · Post by **honz** » Wed Aug 21, 2002 10:34 pm

hi. first off, thx. pretty sure what the prob is, but wanted some input, as i'm known to be wrong...

awhile ago, MOHAA worked. then recently i get the "Safe Mode" screen bout everytime that i start it up. then few days ago, brings up that screen, and it jus goes in a loop. hit normal mode (or Safe Mode for that matter) and it jus loops back to the same "Safe Mode" Screen. so checked DirectX and it gets errors when i do Direct3D. so i reinstalled the driver, hoping that was it. now i don't even have the choice of testing Direct3D. ***

i have a gf2 mx200 64mb. jus seems weird that it would do everything else just fine, but gaming it can't/won't. Only thing i can think of is that i recently upped the res to 1024x768, and mebbe it fried something on the card. who knows.

ne wayz, thx for the input. hopefully i can get back to MOHAA soon =)

EDIT: also, if it is the vid card, was thinkin like a visiontek extasy gts. that a decent card? i jus need a decent-cheap card, as im broke heading to college. say 50 or less. that is unless some1 has one they wanna sell me...

blade · Post by **blade** » Wed Aug 21, 2002 11:04 pm

Have you tried different video drivers and does this happen with just mohaa or any game? And was/is the card overclocked?

I wouldn't suggest a visiontek card for not, not till their situation is figured out. Looks like they are trying to sell, if not they may go under. Then no support.

ShibasScotch · Post by **ShibasScotch** » Wed Aug 21, 2002 11:04 pm

well, the GeForce 2 should have no problem getting to 1024x768, the SAFE MODE screen doesnt mean that it is the Video card or monitor.... what drivers were you useing ?

honz · Post by **honz** » Thu Aug 22, 2002 10:43 am

well, as far as i know there is only one driver. went to nvidia, and these were the 3 options as far as drivers. this is of course under the win2k drivers...
<b>Detonator XP Driver (Video Cards)
WDM Driver (Personal Cinema)
3D Stereo Driver (for 3D Glasses)</b>

the latter 2 don't seem relevant as mine is just a vid card, no TV out or watnot. and they said that the detonator drivers were universal to all nvidia cards.

no this thing hasn't been touched. i stuck it in, thats bout it, lol. as for the safe mode screen, yes that doesn't mean its the vid card, BUT i guess im leanin towards that, as i cannot get Direct3D, whereas before i had this prob i could.

am i not looking in the right place for the drivers? that could be it i guess.

o ya, when i changed the res, i was messin with the refresh frequency, could this have contributed in someway? and while im askin questions, wtf does the refresh freq do? lol. i didn't notice ne change, so i set it back the the 70mhz default...

thx guyz