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by stanir

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HI i hope you or someone can help
my problem is that i have bought a MSI ms star force geforce 4MX440 with AGP8X 64 mb
it works fine but playing games it wont do the games load okay and start to play then it either restarts computer or goes back to desktop
my system consists of
AMD athalon 1.4g proccesor
windows XP
sound blaster live 5.1
above graphics card
640mb memory
my motherboard is a GIGA-BYTE GA-7ZX-H
any clues would be much appreciated
thanks
steve

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by ryder007

Have you loaded the latest driver for your card, got to nvidia's website. Soumds like xp doesn't like the driver your using and it's having page faults.

by opatzg9

AGP cards need the motherboard drivers loaded first for enabling the agp slot. So get the latest motherboard drivers first.
Get then loaded and then install the latest directx, and finally the latest nvidia drivers.
Installing the monitor driver as well would not hurt. For drivers check out www.driverguide.com
www.motherboards.org
Good luck

by cg it

Giga-byte has had some problems with their motherboards, specifically the GA-7VRXP in reporting conflicts between their motherboards and Geforce 4 cards.[not enough capacitors on the board]. Give Giga-byte a call at 626-854-9338 and speak to a tech who will be able to help ya out either upgrading your board or with the workaround. Also, that 8X AGP isn't what it appears to be, checkout an article on www.Bjorn3d.com or Overclockers Cafe on the real scoop behind Intel's new 8X AGP spec and whether you actually recevie any performance gains from going to the new AGP chipset features. Further, Checkout PC Gamer Magazine hardware tech writeups by The Vede [past issues] regarding that Geforce 4MX 440 graphics card. You'll get some great info,

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