Did you remember to install the motherboard chipset utility drivers?
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging



"tburroughs11" <tburroughs11@dtnspeed.net> wrote in message
news:1132964773.781257.298550@g43g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> My whole problem is....... I have all these 3D programs that I ran
> before this problem occured. I had formatted my PC and when I enabled
> my NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 AGP 128MB graphics card and I went to a high
> resolution the screen would flicker and blink on and off and after
> about 15-20 seconds the whole pc crashes. The only way I could boot
> back up was to start up in safe mode and disable the device and reboot.
> I've tried updatig drivers and none of that seems to work. I've checked
> all the bios settings that I know of and they all seem normal. I'm
> wondering if the card itself just went bad. If so, do any of you know
> how I can find that out. The other thing that I was thinking was, if
> the AGP slot went bad on the motherboard. Since it is the only slot I'm
> not sure how to check that without buying a new AGP card and testing
> it. I hoping that there is something that I missed and someone has a
> suggestion or two.
>