** Video Drivers Error Messages **

[Bill Lane]

Hi All:

I'm having a problem with my computer rebooting all by it's self for no reason. It
don't happen every day, but it does happen from time to time.

I took the Free TouchStone Driver Scan and it told me my video drivers were bad.

Free TouchStone Driver Scan shows that the following is my video card.

NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro (Microsoft Corporation) Tested Bad

They wanted me to register for $29 in order to download new drivers, so I went
on line and downloaded two sets of drivers from Drivers Guide, but I still received
the same error message.

You can see the results here ... http://home.earthlink.net/~billlane28/info-001.jpg

I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, or have the wrong drivers.

System Info
Intel Pentium 4.2GHz 533MHz Socket 478 CPU

2 Sticks of Ram 256DDR2100 - N = 512 MB of Ram.

OS: Win XP Pro, Service Pack 2

Resolution: 1024x768 Highest 32bit color


My Actual Video Card Information
Chaintech 64MB GeForce2 Pro AGP Video Card

Product Number: AGP-R193-64
Manufactureer Part No. AGP-R193
4x AGP Compliant
nVidia GeForce2 Pro Chipset
64MB DDR SDRAM
300MHz RAMDCA
2048x 1536 maximum resolution in 32-bit color
15-pin standard VGA connector
Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT 4.0/2000/ME/XP

C:/NVIDIA/Win2KXP/52.16 and 93.71 I get the same error messages when trying
to install either of these, one of these must be the driver that I'm using now.

Any help will be very much appreciated, and thanks ahead of time.

[pam123]

The current drivers for Geforce2 cards are the 93.71 drivers that were released in Nov. 2006, there have been no updates since then.
You can try uninstalling and re-installing but there's a good chance that it's the card that's starting to die on you, I had a Radeon 9500 pro give me very similar grief when it was on it's way south.

[Bill Lane]

Thanks pam123,

I'll try that and see what happens.

[Bill Lane]

Hi pam123,

Well I thought we fixed it, but today it did it again, so I'm off to get a new video card.

Thanks, I'll let you know when it's installed, and how it works.

[pam123]

Gaahhhahah!!!!

Post back.

[Fatality]

I have basically the same video card and had the same problem as you. If you haven't yet got a new video card, try rolling back to a previous driver and see if it takes you to the version 5.6.7.3...this is the version that you receive after installing SP2. It's the only drivers that I've had for my Geforce2 card that work perfect. Any other version does not work correctly. Try it out if you have yet to get a new video card. By the way, if you already have SP2 installed and you rolled back and it didn't take you to 5.6.7.3 try uninstalling SP2 and reinstalling it via Windows Updates.