Treble, what Robb meant was, why did you install an Nvidia driver if you have a Matrox card?

i was using it for a fewe days before i installed the Matrox card and the graphics driver was poor so i was told my a techie to install the nvidia driver which i did--this solved the problem however when the card has gone in it has gone mental!

T

Do you still have the nvidia display card in the machine? If so, there is probably a conflict between the two, remove the nvidia card. If there is only the Matrox card in the machine, uninstall the nvidia driver and install the matrox driver.

kayak---cheers--at the moment this is impossiblke as XP will now not bott up. I need to try and XP rescue manouvere first!
T

Treble, boot in safe mode, use Control Panel/Display to change the display to Standard Monitor, reboot in normal mode, and proceed as above...

Treble - you're in much safer hands now Kayak has arrived :-) I couldn't get my g200 to work without it hanging the machine etc. Faffed about with drivers/conflicts etc but couldn't sort it so got a P750 this week to fit at the weekend. Hope you get sorted but stay cool and be methodical would be my tip.

Good luck
Rob

Robb--the staying cool bit is my problem---was wrestling with monitors and the pc running in my home office last night on the hottest day of the year--just when i thought i had it sorted at 12 o'clock last night the whole thing crashed---i nearly threw the lot out the window!

round three awaits once i get home tonight---yee ha!
T

A friend of mine has a problem with his PC (Windows 98SE).

When trying to save a file to his floppy disk (drive A) keep getting error message: "Cannot Copy - The disk is write protected - remove write protection or use another disk"

The disk isn't write protected and have tried several disks with the same error.

Also have tried formatting the disk and a similar error message saying the disk is write protected.

Any clues as to why this is happening??

right folks---i am on the verge of throwing this thing out of the windiw---i cannot get XP to load--it hangs and just goes blank----i want top take everything off of it and start again.

how do i do that---the onkly thing i can do is when i press del before it hangs --i get a list of commands---how can i clear it and reboot it form my XP disk?

T

Press f8.(I think)As you restart.Its one of the F`s that much i do know.Ive formatted my drive 3 times in a month..Youd think id remember!.
Then "boot from cd" with xp disk.Follow instructions.Format partition etc.Reinstall.

That is the final solution, but before that it might be worth (a) selecting safe mode after pressing F8 and doing what I suggested above, and if that doesn't work, (b) taking out the Matrox card, replacing the original graphics card, and trying to boot like that...

Nah!Chuck it out of the window.Its empowering;-)

... and then chuck it out of the window :-)

Treble

The problem I had with the G200 card sounds similar. It would freeze my machine as XP was loading at the point where the XP screen first comes up and says something like "welcome to windows XP" or "loading windows XP" with the blue logo screen. At that point it would just stop and freeze the machine. To retrieve the situation, each time, I would power off, replace the G200 with my trusty G550 and reboot (as Kayak suggested above). That worked and XP would load up fine but tell me that it had recovered from a major error. After the first time it did this and before I did anything else I did a full system back up and set a restore point on XP. I tried reloading the drivers from the disc and from the matrox website but couldn't get it to boot up with the G200. I don't know if its something to do with conflicts or problem with one being a pci and one being an agp?? I was willing eventually to write off the card as an "oh well I got it very cheap, never mind" experience and decided to go for the new three screen P750 which I will fit this weekend. I'll let you know how it goes. I was only going to use the G200 for three screens and thought that may be part of the problem? Who knows. Anyway, it was more hassle than it was worth for me, it was occupying too much time and mind space.

Hope you get it sorted.

Rob

PS I think foale had a problem with his G200. Don't know if it was the same problem or if he fixed it but he might be worth a try.

robb--cheers--i have taken my PC into work and have set our techies loose on it :-)

T

Treble - Well? Haven't they fixed it yet?!?

Help required please....

lost mouse driver on win 2000 pro have it in safemode but how do i move across to the hardware section in the mouse properties i now how to move it in the buttons mode but want to reinstall driver mind has gone a blank can anyone help....

tia
Rick...

From a Right Click at My Computer
Select Properties
Open Device Manager
Open Mouse
Select Mouse
Select Remove
Reboot the computer and Windows should find the mouse and reinstall a generic driver.

DocProc

Thanks for all help dont ask me want went wrong but it is going OK...:-)

Rick...

When my PC loads up, I get an error telling "support has encountered an error " and has to close - I have taken the "send report to Microsoft" several times which I assume is like p*ssing into a black hole. Other than the error message, everything else seems ok - any suggestions please?
Windows XP home.

Skinny