MrNiceGuy 0 Posted January 13, 2000 My RivaTNT don't work properly under 2000 (big suprise <G> ). I've installed all the latest drivers, but when I boot to w2k all I get is a black screen. When I boot in safe mode, and uninstall the riva, I can boot back to 2000 with limited video (16 Color, 640X480). I had the same problem when I installed 98, and resolved it with new drivers. Again the same problem in NT4 SP4, resolved it with an IRQ and AGP patch for my MotherBoard (Aopen AX59Pro). I've tried every thing I know of, but still no luck. Any Idea's?? Share this post Link to post
YuppieScum 0 Posted January 13, 2000 I have a regular TNT and it's always worked fine under W2K. You'll find posts elsewhere that will suggest ensuring the BIOS has allocated an IRQ to the card. Also, you don't say what card maker, what card BIOS, what mobo, mobo BIOS, and driver revision... Share this post Link to post
MrNiceGuy 0 Posted January 13, 2000 It's a creative labs graphics blaster. I don't quite remember what BIOS update it was, but I'm sure it was the latest one. The driver was the Nvidia 3.66 W2K revision. Share this post Link to post
Greggy 0 Posted January 13, 2000 Use the in-built nvidia Riva TNT drivers that shipped with YOUR version of Windows 2000 and see if you get better results. I'm guessing you are trying to use the 3.66 driver on Win2K RC2 or older, which usually doesn't work. Share this post Link to post
Awaxx 0 Posted January 13, 2000 Buy a new card .... ;-) What build is your Win2k ??? Since the RC2 my TNT2 have been properly recognize and I was able to change screen size and color but DDrw, D3D and OGL weren't there. For those one, I had to try differents version and the fisrt one that worked perfectly was 3.52. Then I jumped to 3.56 with 3.52 OGL under RC3. I'm actuallly 3.66 without prob with 2195iso. Awx Share this post Link to post
YuppieScum 0 Posted January 13, 2000 FWIW, mine too is a bog-standard CL TNT1 16Mb AGP card, and its performance has been flawless with W2K since the very early builds. If you've had the same problem using Win9x, then I'd expect its more to do with the mobo than the card - get the latest BIOS and ensure it's allocating an IRQ to the card... Share this post Link to post
euankirkhope 0 Posted January 15, 2000 ME TOO! That problem has always haunted me, through all versions of Win2K I've had, and nobody had come up with a solution. My STB Velocity 4400 has only worked once, and when the computer was shutdown, and restarted later it had relapsed (this was with STB NT4 drivers). If you look in the system properties and you see all your PCI devices on IRQ 11, then you have installed the win2k with ACPI on a non-ACPI system. And as in above post, as the IRQ routing isn't working properly, your TNT won't work. It will just say it can't start or there are files missing. Good things to try are: remove all other cards, and disable everything else in bios, re-install with ACPIOptions = 0 in txtsetup.sif (in i386 folder), get a bios update, If your motherboard is a Fic va503+, just bin win2K. If you have found a fix please email me. Share this post Link to post
