I recently purchased a PNY Verto MX 440-SE AGP video card. It was to replace a Radeon 7500 AGP that was removed for my gaming system (hey, I am on a budget). I went back to using my old Voodoo 3500 while I waited to make the purchase. The Voodoo card had no software with it, so the only thing I could uninstall was the card in the device manager, which I did, then shut down the pc.
I swapped the card out for the new one and powered up the system. It locked up during the boot up of Win XP Prof. I forced-shut down and then turned it on again. This time I chose the safe mode and it ran through the drivers loading until it got hung up (again) on “giveio.sys” in the system32 directory (not “drivers” directory like everything else loading). This is where it kept getting stuck no matter what I tried including reverting back to previous working start-up). I went to the mobo’s website (Epox) and downloaded new 4-in-1 VIA drivers (suggested in manual). These drivers support AGP 3.0 (I only need 2.0) and still no luck. Way back when I originally loaded the Radeon card, it had no issues (I realize they are different cards, but roughly same specs/class). If anyone had simlar problem, a remedy, knowlege of “giveio.sys”, or a suggestion(s), I would appreciate hearing from you. Thanks!
The card specs:
64MB DDR AGP2.0 or higher
PC:
Epox 7-kxa
Athlon 750
256 SDRAM
Win XP Prof.
17″ Envision Monitor (which will change to only TV once I get this problem fixed.)
