VGASAVE in Display Properties

[helifaxnz]

I have a very annoying problem with XP and a Geforce 2 MX400 graphics card.
I used to have a Matrox G200 Marvel installed. Since swapping it out with a Geforce 2, XP has come up with the VGASAVE graphics card in the Display Properties instead of the Geforce card.
This is all in Normal Mode and not Safe Mode.

Things I have tried:

1. Uninstall the Geforce drivers and reboot.
2. Install the latest nVidia drivers.
3. In System Properties, deleted Geforce driver.
4. Disabled the VGASAVE device (Big mistake!!!).
5. Bios, changed so system assigns IRQ to AGP.

All above did not fix the problem. It either did nothing, or you boot up and you get a blank screen (as with no. 4).

What I am yet to try:

1. Re-install the old Matrox G200 card then delete drivers and install the Geforce card.
2. Someone suggested to uninstall all SYSTEM DEVICES under Device Manager (will approach with caution).

Anyone else having this problem? More to the point, has any one fixed this problem or have a fix?

[Grendel]

Could be a bad card.

I have also heard of some mother boards have compatibility issues with some geforce cards; check your MOBO's site to see if it is one of them.

[0111345]

Problem Solved:

I hooked up an older Sony Trinitron 17sfII CRT monitor to the analog port (the small usually blue connector) and Windows placed VgaSave under Display adapters in the Device Manager tree. Before this happened I installed all both windows versions(win9x/ME and XP) of the drivers. Win9x drivers where the last I tried. I am not sure that the Win9x drivers made this happen. Anyway I went to Device Manager\Display adapters\(whatever)\Adapter[tab]\Update Driver...[button] and had windows look for the driver it slowly loaded (took about 5 mins) an exe file and after that it finished. I switched it from the blue(RGB) legacy port to the DVI port and it still works. =D


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[Pittor052]

a friend of mine has the same problem if you find out how to fix it plss write me at pittor@abv.bg