I purchased a PNY AGP GeForce 64MB video card. I disabled
the on board video, and uninstalled the drivers in device manager. I switched
the jumpers and installed my new AGP video card. It booted up with video, and I
installed the drivers. Initially, before I rebooted, I went to display
properties and tried to switch the resolution. At this point I moved the slide 1
notch to the right, and hit ok. My video went off and the light on my monitor
went amber. I rebooted by holding the power button in(since I couldn’t see a
thing) It booted with video now and hit F8, booted into safe mode. It wouldn’t
let me move my settings back, the changes wouldn’t apply. So I removed the card
from device manager and tried again. Rebooted, then installed the drivers again
from the cd. I then restarted for changes to take effect. I had video until it
was about to put my icons up(and the resolution
looked pretty high) when the video went out again. I then rebooted again, hit
F8, and enabled VGA. This put me at lowest setting again. I tried the
performance test from Norton and ran a 3D test. It said “no 3d adapter
available”. I did these steps a few different times in different sequences, same
result. I also tried switching the monitor refresh rate, which again, made me
lose video. I went on the Intel site and it said my chipset(440) is no longer
supported. My monitor drivers are current. Is this product plain and simple not
going to work ever, or what? Can itnot handle a 64MB video card? I got this PC 4 years ago in May. Please get
back to me ASAP. Thanks
