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by cindar

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Ok I just purchased a Epox 8KHA+ motherboard, 256mb of pc2100 ddr ram and a athlon xp 1800+ i installed the components in my pc and am now experiencing a graphics problem where the screen stops refreshing and the graphics do not leave the screen ie:open the start menu and click away to close and the image stays. The graphics card is a geforce2 mx 32mb using the latest detonator drivers and i have a 300watt power supply the system runs at around 38 degrees c and i have all the latest drivers for my chipset and components. i have tested the card and monitor in another pc using diagnostics. and no problems occured and i am frankly quite baffled by the prob any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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by jeremyrem

what version of windows?, how about tring to set the refresh rate goto display properties - Settings - Advanced - Adapter - Change Refresh Rate

if it still is happing it probly is your monitor, monitors have a average life expectency of 10,000 hours, less then that if it gets turned off and on alot or left on with no screen saver. Or Try giving it more ram by editing the bios.

by william jay

Hello,
Sounds like a synchronization problem. BIOS settings are the likely culprit and solution. Try loading BIOS defaults to see how it goes.
Since AGP - 2x and - 4x are quite different electrically and because today's motherboard settings andBIOS features are very tricky to setup sometimes, and you forgot to inform us of the exact video card specs, as well as OS info, (we use several PCI and AGP2x and AGP4x versions of several video cards with that chipset), it is difficult to say with certainty which way to go for sure. . cheers.

by carquiza

Hi,

All I can say is hardware compatibility problem have you check the graphic video card compatibility with the motherboard just browse to the internet and you will find out that some graphic cards won't give you a nice performance or there will be an error or driver problem. Hope help a bit.

Cheers,

Mel Arquiza
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http://hpd.welcome.to

by cindar

I contacted epox to see if there has been any probs with my config and there boards and they said not. also checked out nividia for known probs with this card and my config and none have turned up. Thx all the same.

by cindar

Ok the cards is a sparkle geforce 2 mx with 32mb of standard memory and it is agp 4x as is the motherboard. i tried various settings in the bios but with no joy. Such as agp apeture size setting defaults, optimised and failsafe. The os is win98 se with all the updates from win update site.

by ballkw

A possible solution would be to reload the agp driver from the Epox m/b cd and reset to 2X in the bios. After this you may also want to go back to the drivers for your video card as found on the cd that came with it. Be sure to delete the existinginf files before going back to the original versions. I have found that some graphics cards really prefer the drivers that they are shipped with. All Epox boards that I have used have worked best with the supplied drivers. Just my two cents worth. (-:

by cindar

Thanks a lot this seems to have solved the prob it was the nvidia drivers that where causing the problem i guess it is a case of new is not always better again thankyou

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