graphics card (? not sure of terminology?) prob- no games ..

Your "display adapter" or "graphics chip" (SAME THING) could be located on
your motherboard (onboard graphics) or it could be on a "graphics card"
plugged into a pci slot (or newer pci-express slot), so which is it ?

If you've got both, then you need to switch off the onboard graphics chip in
bios, or unplug the pci graphics cards and switch on onboard graphics in
bios ! (or if you one of those newer boards that supports two graphics
cards, and which costs about the same amount of money as a new car - you'd
better start reading your motherboard manual).

I have an FX5200 with VGA/DVI/svhs connectors (CGN-348ATVD), lovely card for
the money but, atm it's sat in my geoforce 6 box (6200) doing nothing.

Anyway, as has already been suggested - it looks like you may need to
reinstall Nvidia graphics drivers. If you can get to Add/Remove programs,
uninstall Nividia graphics drivers if listed, (though I've never had any
trouble over-installing), reboot, (in VGA mode I expect), and run the
drivers-disk that came with the card. ...unless of course you have
collected newer drivers from Nvidia install those.

regards, Richard



"Alex" <Alex RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E67DD1DB-1DF1-4B47-8DA6-5B12F58108AF@microsoft.com...
> Hi, I have an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 display adapter (I thought it was a
> graphics card), and it's disabled. I've tried to play games like FS2004,
> Halo PC, Conflict Global Storm on this PC, and they all used to work, but
> not
> anymore. I've uninstalled all of them except Global Storm, and just now I
> ran global storm, and it showed the computer as having no graphics card.
> I have tried enabling the card, but the screen goes black, and then
> several
> minutes (and sometimes several restarts) later, the PC says that it's just
> recovered from a serious system error, and returned to a restore point.
> If anyone has any ideas, please tell me.
> Thanks in advance
> Alex
 >> Stay informed about: graphics card (? not sure of terminology?) prob- no games .. 

....oh dear, I should have said AGP/pci type, or ...pci graphics card -
there are still a few around !

regards, Richard


"RJK" <notatospam.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ei%235mG7%23GHA.4388@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Your "display adapter" or "graphics chip" (SAME THING) could be located on
> your motherboard (onboard graphics) or it could be on a "graphics card"
> plugged into a pci slot (or newer pci-express slot), so which is it ?
>
> If you've got both, then you need to switch off the onboard graphics chip
> in bios, or unplug the pci graphics cards and switch on onboard graphics
> in bios ! (or if you one of those newer boards that supports two
> graphics cards, and which costs about the same amount of money as a new
> car - you'd better start reading your motherboard manual).
>
> I have an FX5200 with VGA/DVI/svhs connectors (CGN-348ATVD), lovely card
> for the money but, atm it's sat in my geoforce 6 box (6200) doing nothing.
>
> Anyway, as has already been suggested - it looks like you may need to
> reinstall Nvidia graphics drivers. If you can get to Add/Remove programs,
> uninstall Nividia graphics drivers if listed, (though I've never had any
> trouble over-installing), reboot, (in VGA mode I expect), and run the
> drivers-disk that came with the card. ...unless of course you have
> collected newer drivers from Nvidia install those.
>
> regards, Richard
>
>
>
> "Alex" <Alex.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E67DD1DB-1DF1-4B47-8DA6-5B12F58108AF@microsoft.com...
>> Hi, I have an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 display adapter (I thought it was a
>> graphics card), and it's disabled. I've tried to play games like FS2004,
>> Halo PC, Conflict Global Storm on this PC, and they all used to work, but
>> not
>> anymore. I've uninstalled all of them except Global Storm, and just now I
>> ran global storm, and it showed the computer as having no graphics card.
>> I have tried enabling the card, but the screen goes black, and then
>> several
>> minutes (and sometimes several restarts) later, the PC says that it's
>> just
>> recovered from a serious system error, and returned to a restore point.
>> If anyone has any ideas, please tell me.
>> Thanks in advance
>> Alex
>
 >> Stay informed about: graphics card (? not sure of terminology?) prob- no games .. 

Alex wrote:

> Hi, I have an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 display adapter (I thought it was
> a graphics card), and it's disabled. I've tried to play games like
> FS2004, Halo PC, Conflict Global Storm on this PC, and they all used
> to work, but not anymore. I've uninstalled all of them except Global
> Storm, and just now I ran global storm, and it showed the computer as
> having no graphics card. I have tried enabling the card, but the
> screen goes black, and then several minutes (and sometimes several
> restarts) later, the PC says that it's just recovered from a serious
> system error, and returned to a restore point. If anyone has any
> ideas, please tell me. Thanks in advance
> Alex

Time to replace the card with a new one; it has apparently failed.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
 >> Stay informed about: graphics card (? not sure of terminology?) prob- no games .. 

I called Dell, and everything is now OK.
After reinstalling Windows, they decided that a new motherboard and graphics
card was needed, and now it's all fine.

Thanks for all your help,
Alex

"Malke" wrote:

> Alex wrote:
>
> > Hi, I have an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 display adapter (I thought it was
> > a graphics card), and it's disabled. I've tried to play games like
> > FS2004, Halo PC, Conflict Global Storm on this PC, and they all used
> > to work, but not anymore. I've uninstalled all of them except Global
> > Storm, and just now I ran global storm, and it showed the computer as
> > having no graphics card. I have tried enabling the card, but the
> > screen goes black, and then several minutes (and sometimes several
> > restarts) later, the PC says that it's just recovered from a serious
> > system error, and returned to a restore point. If anyone has any
> > ideas, please tell me. Thanks in advance
> > Alex
>
> Time to replace the card with a new one; it has apparently failed.
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>
 >> Stay informed about: graphics card (? not sure of terminology?) prob- no games ..