GeForce FX 5200 Windows Crash

[gohanbacha]

I installed my GeForce in my computer, and formatted the computer so that it would start ready with the Video Card. Once it start the video completelly sucks, it's like worse than 16 colors, and after i install the drivers, the video gets fixed....but the computer wont go past the Windows Welcome screen....what am i doing wrong...?

[daemonOS]

What driver version did you install? Did you make sure to get all windows updates + directx 9.0c b4 you installed the nvidia driver?

[thymekiller]

I know this thread is old, but I am having the same problem with a Geforce FX Go5200, in a Toshiba Satellite P25 laptop, P4 3.0 GHz, 512 MB Ram. This card was working fine until a virus forced a reinstall of WinXP. I downloaded and installed the updated drivers from the Toshiba website, and they worked for a few days, then the black screen started coming up right after the WinXP splash screen appears. You can hear the computer continue to start up, but no screen. It starts just fine in safe mode, and when I start in VGA mode. I tried uninstalling the drivers form the Nvidia website, but its the same thing. Tried the modded drivers from omega website-those enabled me to log on normally, but I had only 800x600 resolution, with 4 bit color. When I tried to change the resolution, nothing at all happened. I get my best screen by simply disabling the geforce card. Anyone got a clue???
thyme

[urbandrag0n]

I would use this first of all.... http://www.drivercleaner.net/ uninstall the drivers completely.... the "Driver Cleaner" here will delete all nVidia and ATI drivers from your computer...

from there i would run over to the nVidia site and download the drivers and try the process again...

[thymekiller]

Originally Posted by urbandrag0n

I would use this first of all.... http://www.drivercleaner.net/ uninstall the drivers completely.... the "Driver Cleaner" here will delete all nVidia and ATI drivers from your computer...

from there i would run over to the nVidia site and download the drivers and try the process again...

Ok, I went there and did all that and halfway thru the driver reinstall, the computer blue-screened. essentially a page fault error. It did a memory dump, then restarted itself, and right after the Windows splash screen, BSOD again. The next time it restarted, I hit the F8 button, and chose "enable VGA mode", and the computer started. I removed all the drivers again, rebooted, and now I'm not even showing a display adapter in Device Manager, just a big yellow ? next to VGA controller, but the screen is normal, and I have my choice of resolutions. I know thats not right-I pulled the cover off the back, and saw the nVidia card. So now what?? Any suggestions????
thyme

[daemonOS]

You need to reinstall the driver. If no driver is installed then it can not read the card. The famous BSOD forms from a bad driver in most cases. If a bad dll is loaded into memory then you can get it. The problem might be in shell but we hope that is not the cause. Go to nvidia's website and download the drivers. Here is a link Nvidia. Make sure befor you install to disable any anti-virus. Norton is a known cause of bad driver installs. Heck! It had problems w/my Creative media center... *sigh*
Well hope this helps.

[thymekiller]

Originally Posted by daemonOS

You need to reinstall the driver. If no driver is installed then it can not read the card. The famous BSOD forms from a bad driver in most cases. If a bad dll is loaded into memory then you can get it. The problem might be in shell but we hope that is not the cause. Go to nvidia's website and download the drivers. Here is a link Nvidia. Make sure befor you install to disable any anti-virus. Norton is a known cause of bad driver installs. Heck! It had problems w/my Creative media center... *sigh*
Well hope this helps.

But it wont let me install the nVidia drivers. I did download them, and was in the process of installing them, and thats when the computer blue-screened. Honestly, I dont understand what the problem is. I disabled the AVG, and closed all other running programs before I tried to install. Should I try to install the drivers in Safe Mode??? Also, I noticed that nVidia drivers on the website claim not to support the Geforce FX GO cards. I have tried the drivers on the Toshiba website also, and I still have problems. I'm about to wipe the darn thing and start over...except that I'd still be searching for drivers...(sigh...)

[pstefou]

Hello everyone

When I installed my evga GeForce FX 5200, my computer would crash after about 15-20 minutes of use. This would happen regularly. I was however able to correct the problem. I did a few things simultaneously so you may need to try everything I mention to acheive similar results. Here's what I did:

1. Went into the BIOS setup and changed AGP aperture size to 128 MB (it was 64 MB by default and the card is a 128 MB card).

2. Updated to the latest nVidia drivers for the card.

3. Disabled windows power saving schemes. Also, disabled the 'turn off monitor after n seconds' feature.

This combination of things corrected the problem. As to which of these corrected the problem, I am unsure. nVidia may have resolved some bug in the latest distro. of their drivers...

Regards,
P

[Jacques18]

Hi, I had the same problem, this is what I did, after reformating I had the latest driver from Dell, and all hell broke loose, so after a million tries I figured out:
1) Check your paging file config it should never be larger than your Ram, once you have that corrected, then look for memory managers (Tune Up 2006 or free ram XP pro)install only one (I use Tune Up 2006).
2)When you start you computer the first thing to do is to FREE memory (at least half your RAM no more than that, i.e. lets say you have 512 then set it to free 256)
3)Run your DVDs, videos or games normally.
Note I have a GeForce 5200 with 64.
One more thing you can check your card using "dxdiag" at the run prompt is a Microsoft utility, this will tell you if your devices are OK.
Jack