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[Rappy]

Works as planned.

To note: boot up times are astounding, I can live with the way it's performing, but it can be a pain having to Turn Off every time I require a reboot.

-Rappy

Edited by Rappy, 10 January 2009 - 08:39 PM.

[appleoddity]

So, the system is running and booting great now, but you are still having an issue with restart and video?

[Rappy]

Exactly, the video issue on restart still persists. -Rappy

[appleoddity]

I just saw your edit. You did reinstall the video driver after making all the service and startup item changes as instructed a few posts back?

[Rappy]

Yes I did. Rebooted when it told me to. -Rappy

[appleoddity]

Nice... Is this a dual head video card? One with two video outputs like DVI, and VGA? If you look in control panel -> display -> settings, does it show two displays listed? Is this a custom built machine, or an OEM machine? If it is OEM, what is the make and model of it? If it is custom built, can you provide the make and model of your motherboard?

[Rappy]

It's custom built, I set it up back a year ago (last Feb) and yes it has vid out, s-vid out, and DVI out. It's actually set up through nvid that I can port it out to my TV at the same time. Processor 2.20 gigahertz Intel Pentium III 64 kilobyte primary memory cache 2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache Main Circuit Board Board: Intel Corporation DP965LT AAD41694-301 Serial Number: AZLT732004RV Bus Clock: 200 megahertz BIOS: Intel Corp. MQ96510J.86A.1687.2007.0510.0258 05/10/2007 -Rappy

[appleoddity]

I took a look through your motherboard manual, but interestingly enough, it doesn't have any information about configuring the BIOS. What I'm interested in is a setting called "Init Display First," it will probably be under advanced settings, or integrated periphereals. It will probably offer two or three options. For yours, it will probably list PCI, and PCI-E. Make sure it is set to PCI-E. I wish I could give you better details where to find this settings but the manual isn't any help. Check that and I'll keep thinking about what else might be an issue.

[Rappy]

The odd thing is, it wasn't an issue until this thread was started. I will check BIOS settings for a preference on init first, but I don't recall it being there. -Rappy

[Rappy]

There is an option under Video Properties in the BIOS that allows me to select: Auto PCIEx PCI It's a PCIEx card, I selected it, save settings and reboot, video didn't start. In fact, it took several reboots before video initialized again. Not happy with those results. -Rappy

[appleoddity]

That is strange. Change it back to AUTO. What we did in this thread should've solved issues, not created this one. Therefore, I don't think it is directly related to anything we did. EDIT: I forgot, check in services.msc and see if any of those Nvidia services are still disabled? Maybe reinstalling the driver did not re-enable the services like I expected it to. Try setting any Nvidia services back to automatic startup. See if that solves the problem, if not do the following. Try this I guess.. Go into control panel -> add/remove programs and uninstall anything to do with your Nvidia video card. Now, click start -> run -> type 'cmd' and press ENTER. And the command prompt type: set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 start devmgmt.msc In device manager, select View -> show hidden devices. Expand display adapters and delete everything in there. Do not reboot if requested to do so until any items listed under display adapters is deleted. Reboot your computer, let the video card driver reinitialize, reboot if necessary, then install that Nvidia driver you downloaded again and reboot again. Reboot a couple more times and see how your video reacts. Let me know if any other devices were listed under display adapters in device manager. I understand that this problem didn't occur until we did what we have done in this thread, but I'm still not certain that what we did caused the problem, or just unmasked another problem. I would like to eliminate the possibility of your monitor acting up, do you have a different monitor to plug in temporarily to see if it reacts the same way? Its not likely that this is the problem, but we should eliminate the obvious if possible. I hope you understand.

Edited by appleoddity, 10 January 2009 - 10:11 PM.

[Rappy]

Joy of joys. My dad was asking me what was going on, and I looked at the card to answer a question he asked and I noticed the fan was not running on the card. The fan mechanism has completely melted, but apparently the card seems to be ok. Doesn't appear to be fried. At this point I am posting from another computer as I don't have another video card to use (that card wasn't even a year old yet) and I am not sure if PCI Ex is backward compatible with AGP or not. I have a VERY old 2mb PCI card I can try, but at this point I don't know what I should do. =( -Rappy

[appleoddity]

Rappy, I'm sorry to hear that. Those fans are notorious for failing on video cards. First of all, if the card is not more than a year old, then it is likely there is still a warranty on the card through the manufacturer. By all means get in gear quickly and see if you can get it replaced. If you have to purchase a new video card then my suggestion is to purchase one with a really big heat sink and no fan. I have avoided purchasing any video cards with fans for a long time. They are sure to fail. All of those small fans fail. They are worthless. I would have to say that it is likely your video card is experiencing trouble due to overheating issues. Like I said previously, as odd as it sounds, I don't think anything we did in this thread would've caused that problem. Its likely that the problem was masked by something else. You are entitled to your opinion, but at this point I would have to say replacing the video card due to potential overheating damage would be the first thing to try to resolve this issue. It wouldn't make sense to keep spending time on possible software issues with the video card in that condition. What you have performed in msconfig and services.msc is a basic tune-up procedure. Something like this would've taken 10 minutes with my hands, but hopefully you have learned some things and your computer is running better also. The way that you have msconfig configured is temporary. I did it this way to make sure that everything else functioned as you wanted it to. You can leave msconfig like this forever if you want, but I prefer to return msconfig to a normal startup and then go into the registry and remove the entries that were disabled in msconfig permanently. I'll certainly be available to support you when needed. When you figure out what to do with the video card, just post back to this thread and I'll provide you with a more "permanent" tune-up. Be sure that things like Roxio, and Adobe are functioning properly.

Edited by appleoddity, 10 January 2009 - 10:55 PM.

[appleoddity]

BTW, AGP will not plug into PCI-Ex, or PCI. Please don't try.

[Rappy]

Already looked into warranty issue, which is a joke. They want $45 for handling fees, and want me to pay for shipping the card TO and FROM them. It's almost more cost effective to purchase a new card buy the time I pay that. Problem is, I can't afford either option at this point. -Rappy