Game Problem

[thefilepirater]

Ok, here's the problem...

Vid Card: Asylum GeForce FX 5200
CPU: AMD Athlon 2600 (Throughbread)
PSU: ATX 350Watt

On Christmas morning I got a brand spanking new HDD, a 120GB Seagate Barracuda ATA. I unplugged my old hard drive and installed the new one (which still has Windows and nothin else on it). Then I popped in the Windows XP SP1 Intergrated CD in the CD-ROM to install Windows. Everything wen't great installing, nice and smooth. Then I installed the drivers from the Nvidia website (version 53.03)

After that I installed GTA:Vice City and NFS:Underground. Then I went to install my necessary programs (AIM, MSN,Nero, ect.) Then I installed DirectX9b. I went to test NFS and I got a messed up looking screen. Almost like glass shattered on the screen. I thought it was maybe the game, so I tried to play Vice City, that was messed up too.

Then I thought maybe the card was messed up, so a few days later I took it back to Wal-Mart for an exchange. Got it exchanged and put the brand new one in, apparently it's not the card, I still got the same stuff.

So, I thought maybe the installation of WinXP got messed up, so then I formated and installed a fresh clean start, but no, that wasn't it.

I went to the KaZaA Lite Forums for answers, but they didn't help. One person suggested I install the version of drivers on the old hard drive to the new one.

So I got on the old hard drive and found out that the version is 44.03. He also posted a website called download guru foundhere (http://download.guru3d.com/detonator). I went there and found 4.4.03 Vers. drivers, so I downloaded them and tried them out, but then the game goes to a black screen and does not come up.

Opon my restart after the black screen, I tried to play a few videos, but in Windows Media Player I got "Opening Media" for about 15 minutes. I upgraded back to vers. 53.03. Now, my videos play and I still get the broken glass look.

Pictures of the games.

http://www.chinkii.com/uploads/album/ladies/nfsglass.JPG

http://www.chinkii.com/uploads/album/ladies/vccolour.JPG

Thank you for reading my story.
Kylan M.

[The Baron]

Survey says--motherboard (either AGP slot itself or drivers). Maybe PSU, but that shouldn't affect a 5200 like that. Might be heat, but it should have worked at least once on a new 5200.

[thefilepirater]

When I put my old hard drive in, I can play the games fine

[Deathlike2]

You probably should mention what mobo you use (brand and chipset is very helpful)

One problem could be that you are not using the latest (or whatever worked before) mobo drivers.

It could also be a bios issue (flashing a new bios can help... newer HD sizes need improved support on older mobos which can be taken care by a new bios usually)

[digitalwanderer]

Couldn't this just be a case of "I installed the 53.03 set and got these weird errors, so I went back to my old set and I STILL have the weird errors!"?

I'd recomend having him do a clean install on the new HD with the 45.23 set. :)

[gstanford]

What DMA mode is the new drive in?

Are there any interrupts being shared?

Hvae you correctly configured the hard drive jumpers?

Is there a reason why you can't simply run both drives with the system installed on the old drive?

[The Baron]

Actually, it sounds like the GART driver. Perhaps the Via 4-in-1 driver simply needs to be installed, or the nF2 driver, or whatever. I'm guessing that's what the problem is if it did work on the old drive.

[gstanford]

Probably, however, if he knew enough to install the GART driver on the old drive, you'd think he'd also install it on the new.

[The Baron]

Originally posted by gstanford
Probably, however, if he knew enough to install the GART driver on the old drive, you'd think he'd also install it on the new.
Unless, of course, Windows came preinstalled, as it most likely did.

[thefilepirater]

In order from everyones questions

1.) M7VIT Pro (Made By BIOSTAR)
2.) Don't Know
3.) Prob. so, I try to get new BIOS

4.) Tried it

5.) Ultra DMA Mode 5
6.) Don't Know
7.) It's only one HDD on One IDE Cable, so no jumpers
8.) Yes I can run both HDD's, they are on right night, the 120GB is primary

9.) Don't Know

10.) Don't know wat GART is

11.) No, its a custom built PC I made. The XP CD I bought.

[gstanford]

GART = Graphics Address Remapping Table. can also be called an AGP miniport driver. Is usually part of your motherboard drivers.

You require the latest VIA Hyperion drivers. You can get them from guru3d or from www.viaarena.com There is probably a set of them on the cd that came with your motherboard, however, especially with VIA, the latest drivers are usually the best.

[thefilepirater]

that didnt work

[gstanford]

from the start menu, choose the run command.

Type dxdiag.exe

On the 'Display" tab, can you complete the tests successully? Is the "AGP Texture Acceleration" enabled or disabled?

[thefilepirater]

yah, i can complete all of em and they are enable

[gstanford]

Have you put XP SP-1 on your machine? Lots of software relies on that nowadays.

To find out how your IRQ's are assigned, goto device manager, in the view menu, choose "resources by type" then expand the "Interrupt Request (IRQ) node.

[thefilepirater]

yes i have SP1 installed
http://www.chinkii.com/uploads/album/cars/page1.JPG
http://www.chinkii.com/uploads/album/cars/page2.JPG
http://www.chinkii.com/uploads/album/cars/page3.JPG

[gstanford]

Okay, first of all your card is showing up as a PCI device on IRQ16.

The best solution is to disable APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) in the BIOS and reinstall. You may also want to install as Standard PC (you can reenable APM from the control panel).

[The Baron]

G, head out of ass for one second. Just checked my Device Manager, and my 5700U is shown as a PCI device as well.

I haven't heard of any specific problems with any video card and a KT400 board. Have you tried other games to see if they're messed up as well? Also, what is your AGP aperture set to in the BIOS? Overclocking at all?

[gstanford]

Okay, I wasn't thinking when I made the PCI comment.

However, AGP devices require an interrupt to work, and it has to be a "real" interrupt, not an extended interrupt (ie: one of the first 15 interrupts).

APIC & ACPI can be nice when they work properly, more often than not though they just screw things up behind your back.

[thefilepirater]

so, should i reset my BIOS or something...

yes other games do it too
http://www.chinkii.com/uploads/album/guys/cod.JPG

[The Baron]

However, AGP devices require an interrupt to work, and it has to be a "real" interrupt, not an extended interrupt (ie: one of the first 15 interrupts).

(PCI) 19 NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra

Please, try again.

It could be a BIOS thing--do you have the latest version? (it'd be odd, but I've seen stranger things)

[thefilepirater]

so wat should i do?

[john19055]

If you can since you got a new hard drive it sometimes better just to do a clean install to get everthing set up right.

[Deathlike2]

You may want to reset your BIOS to default settings (check AGP apeture to be 64MB or so)

Also, you may want to reorder the hardware on your mobo. Make sure no PCI card is next to the AGP slot (in other words, nothing is in the 1st PCI slot).

You may want to read your mobo's documentation (if any) and make sure all your other PCI cards are in slots that are NOT sharing the AGP's slot (in other words, some PCI slots share resources with the AGP slot = bad in some cases).

See if that helps.

[thefilepirater]

just did a clean install...nothin

i dont have any PCI cards just my video card AGP