Need Help!!!

**Donster** · October 13th, 2002, 10:35 AM

Am building a system using my replaced Asus A7V133 and Athlon 1.33 processor. 512 megs of PC133 Ram. Fresh install of Win98SE.
Purchased a Aopen GeForce4 MX440 64Meg AGP card for it because am going to sell this system.

The problems I am having are when the system boots up, the monitor "clicks" on and off like it is waking up from sleep mode, and also when I go into the Vid card properties, and select the "Open GL Settings" tab, the monitor does the same thing!
Now it does this with another monitor too, so its not that. I have VIA chipset drivers installed, along with the 2730 Detonator drivers. Have also tried a later set of dets too and still the same result.

If I remove the MX440 and install an old KyroII card, everything is fine. And I have BIOS set to 4x with the MX440 also. because when I first tried to install the MX440, it froze on boot up due to the BIOS AGP set at 1X.

I'm fresh out of ideas on this one. Anybody got some ideas? Thank you in advance!

Donster

**Praetorian** · October 13th, 2002, 11:00 AM

Set the AGP to 2x. My monitor used to flicker on and off as if coming out of safe mode because I had the AGP speed set higher than the card's top speed.

**jerrygarcia** · October 13th, 2002, 11:32 AM

I had trouble with 2 GF cards. My problem was fixed after hours of trying everything. The thing that fixed it was loading a different detonator driver. It seemed like my set up didn't like the one I was loading. It is worth a try.

**Richard Cranium** · October 13th, 2002, 11:34 AM

Doesn't that GF card have some issues with certain chipsets ?

**jerrygarcia** · October 13th, 2002, 12:18 PM

Mine problems were with two different mobo's with different chipsets and two different GF cards.

GF2 MX 200 64mb
K7VMA (VT8365/A & VT82C686A/B Chipset)

GF3 Ti4200
K7S5A V3.X (SiS® 735 Chipset)

**Donster** · October 13th, 2002, 02:46 PM

Set the AGP in BIOS to 2X. No help. Replaced VIA chipset drivers to the 4.43 set, and the detonator drivers to 40.72. No change.

**eagle1** · October 13th, 2002, 02:51 PM

Couldn't it be the refresh settings???
Try changing refresh settings for the resolution you are using in windows.! Set it to 60hz first then keep incrementing it until you reach a safe setting (for your eyes) of at least 85hz.!

**cadetstimp** · October 13th, 2002, 03:59 PM

Are you using a DVI cabel with a flat panel? try switching to SVGA cable....

**Donster** · October 13th, 2002, 05:01 PM

Refresh Rate setting changes didn't help. And not using a Flat Panel monitor. I think I will just have to cut my loss of time and send this video card back. Thanks for all your help! S!

Donster