FX5200DT Drivers problem (nVidia/Abit)

[blobrana]

Hi,
The bios look ok...
(You don't have onboard graphics...and disabled that option)

But it looks like the registry may be at fault....
You will have to completely remove your old installation of the driver.
The latest driver (for all) is 56.72

Try loading up a generic vga driver (or go into safe mode) and then remove the nvidia driver...reboot and let XP find the new display adaptor....
(Try it manually if that fails)

i have that graphics card and it supports dx9 and agp 8X(so check  your dx drivers also)

[blobrana]

Hum,
it`s maybe the Motherboard CDROM  that he should be looking for...i`ve just thought.
It`ll have maybe a specific Abit PCI/AGP driver on it that will allow the graphic card to be recognised?
(as well as audio /lan etc)

[blobrana]

Hum,
So now you've done that...
You can tweak that old card...Check out the ` advanced ` tab in ` display settings `...disappointing huh?

Well add a super duper ` T in the park ` warp drive tab option with:
Clicking on the NVTweak folder with regedit, and create a new Dword value (you need to right click in window) name it CoolBits (make sure you use a big C and B ) one's created open it and make the value 3 (hex or decimal)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA corporation\Global\NVTweak

"CoolBits"=dword:00000003

It will work on with any detonator drivers, and make for a mean game of Quake...


[Disclaimer: i am a fragmaster]

[blobrana]

What!
 it didn`t work?  hum, did you not see a new `clock frequencies` option?
under the GeForce FX5200 tab (er, at the side panel?)
(aND Best to use the auto-detect option)

Try these:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak]
"NvCplExposeWin2kDualView"=dword:00000001
"NvCplTvLocaleAutoDetect"=dword:00000001
"NvCplAllowForceTVDetection"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnableActiveApp"=dword:00000001
"DisableApplyColorsAtStartup"=dword:00000000
"NoMenus"=dword:00000000
"OverlayPageState"=dword:00000000
"CinematicPageState"=dword:000000ff
"NvCplThermalSettings"=dword:00000020
"NvCplEnableAppProfilePage"=dword:00000000
"NvCplEnableScreenMenuPage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplCustomResConfig"=dword:00000000
"NvCplEnableAdditionalInfoPage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplDisablePerfQualPage"=hex:00,00,00,00
"NvCplEnableAGPSettingsPage"=dword:00000001
"CoolBits"=dword:ffffffff
"NvCplEnableOverlaySpanControl"=dword:00000001
"TwinViewCapsOverride"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnableDesktopOverlapPage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnableTroubleshootingPage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplDisableRefreshRatePage"=dword:00000000
"NvCplDisableRotateAngles"=dword:00000000
"NoPages"=dword:00000000
"NvCplEnableClearViewPage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnableFanControl"=dword:00000003
"NvCplEnableFrameSyncPage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnableHardwarePage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnablenForcePage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnablePwrMzrOnDesktopMenu"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnableRotationColorSettings"=dword:00000001
"NvCplNvThermPage"=dword:00000001
"PowermizerPreferences"=dword:00000000
"QTwkEnableModeChangeWarning"=dword:00000001



[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\OpenGL\Debug]
"ShaderObjects"=dword:00000001


Whoops, missed the post saying you got it working...
(har-rah!)

[blobrana]

Hum,
Strangly they
 both work!
(though, i have always tried  00000003 in the past)
my clock core frequency is 250 Mhz
and my memory frequency is 403 Mhz

 :-)
(i havent tried all the `other` settings  - yet)

[blobrana]

Impressive



For an old card... just goes to show that there life in old hardware, huh... :-)