weird reboot video issue

[Deuche]

Ok I seem to have the weirdest issues with video cards...

PCI-E video card just a basic nvidia dual head card nothing fancy for work.

Everytime i reboot it defaults to 4bit mode and says XP can not find any information for my video card. I have to install the drivers and reboot and then it works fine. any ideas?

[Josh]

driver cleaner, download latest drivers, uninstall the card completely, reboot, install drivers, reboot....

may also want to look at your event viewer after each action

[Deuche]

Originally Posted by Josh

driver cleaner, download latest drivers, uninstall the card completely, reboot, install drivers, reboot....

may also want to look at your event viewer after each action

thats the odd thing im not seeing any odd event on reboot...
driver cleaner? does nvidia have a tool?

[Josh]

i doubt it, but driver cleaner is very powerful, it rips EVERYTHING out for your drivers so you can do a clean install.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download...4e3c6522abe9b7

[Deuche]

that was a no go, same issue. I wounder if the card itself has issues. nvidias site doesnt even recognize the card unless i install the old drivers off the CD. I even downloaded the newest drivers and cleaned it again then reinstalled. no go... its weird. Nvidia 7100GS basic dual head card = shit

[Josh]

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_169.21_whql.html

unfortunately, nvidia has gone the way of providing generic drivers per the series of card....

[Notladstyle]

One time I set up a computer with antivirus before drivers and the antivirus refused to let the install program permanently create .dll files in the system32 directory.

btw you have a lot of computer problems for someone with an IT "Engineering" degree

[Deuche]

Originally Posted by notlaDstyle

One time I set up a computer with antivirus before drivers and the antivirus refused to let the install program permanently create .dll files in the system32 directory.

btw you have a lot of computer problems for someone with an IT "Engineering" degree

I only have video card issues. it usually these stupid odd issues. No one else in here can figure it out and no one here at my job can either... I dont know EVERYTHING just mostly everything lol. Networking is a lil diff than programming and the like. This is an odd issue and no one has seemed to solve it yet.

plus i figure ill just buy the cheap card to get done what i need done and end up with this shit !! lol my fault for going cheap!!

[Deuche]

Originally Posted by Josh

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_169.21_whql.html

unfortunately, nvidia has gone the way of providing generic drivers per the series of card....

yea i DLd that last night hoping there was a fix. I just dont understand why it goes into a 4bit 16color mode. if anything it shoudl default to the WDM driver and run mirror if it cant find the driver. And there is no antivirus on the PC. I dont run antivirus. Im the super user, domain admin, and Domain Super user. i have the rights to install. its just odd. And i cant locate the ini file for the video settings to force it...