Graphics Board Doesn't Work in XP

[David]

Just did a clean XP install. Have a home built system (ECS
K7S5A motherboard, AMD Duron 1GB, 256MB DDR 2100, 15 GB WD
Caviar HD). Problem with video card working (worked fine
with Win 98), a 3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 AGP. It's in the AGP
slot, but Win XP will only load a PCI driver. Troubleshot
in Safe mode to no avail. Even deleted the PCI bus, loaded
the AGP driver for this board, restarted, and XP reloaded
the PCI bus and refused to recognize the board in the AGP
slot. Also cleared CMOS.

Help!

[Gene Goldenfeld]

David wrote:
>
> Just did a clean XP install. Have a home built system (ECS
> K7S5A motherboard, AMD Duron 1GB, 256MB DDR 2100, 15 GB WD
> Caviar HD). Problem with video card working (worked fine
> with Win 98), a 3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 AGP. It's in the AGP
> slot, but Win XP will only load a PCI driver. Troubleshot
> in Safe mode to no avail. Even deleted the PCI bus, loaded
> the AGP driver for this board, restarted, and XP reloaded
> the PCI bus and refused to recognize the board in the AGP
> slot. Also cleared CMOS.

Perhaps this applies. I just had a similar problem after doing a XP repair
on one of two hard drives. XP wouldn't recognize either card or monitor,
instead running some default drivers. The solution for was to install the
motherboard drivers again and then update from the manufacturer's website.
All of a sudden everything was there. All I had to do was resize the
display.

Gene Goldenfeld

[David]

Thanks for the reply to my post. I'll give that a try.
>-----Original Message-----
>David wrote:
>>
>> Just did a clean XP install. Have a home built system
(ECS
>> K7S5A motherboard, AMD Duron 1GB, 256MB DDR 2100, 15 GB
WD
>> Caviar HD). Problem with video card working (worked fine
>> with Win 98), a 3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 AGP. It's in the AGP
>> slot, but Win XP will only load a PCI driver.
Troubleshot
>> in Safe mode to no avail. Even deleted the PCI bus,
loaded
>> the AGP driver for this board, restarted, and XP
reloaded
>> the PCI bus and refused to recognize the board in the
AGP
>> slot. Also cleared CMOS.
>
>Perhaps this applies. I just had a similar problem after
doing a XP repair
>on one of two hard drives. XP wouldn't recognize either
card or monitor,
>instead running some default drivers. The solution for
was to install the
>motherboard drivers again and then update from the
manufacturer's website.
>All of a sudden everything was there. All I had to do
was resize the
>display.
>
>Gene Goldenfeld
>.
>