GPL stopped starting after GF4 MX440 and DirectX 9.1. Help please

Hi all, After I put a Geforce 4 MX440 in my PC and installed DirectX 9.1 my GPL hangs on the first screen. I can see GPL see's my GF4 but it lockes my system at that screen. Any ideas ?? THX in advance Tony

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> Hi all, > > After I put a Geforce 4 MX440 in my PC and installed DirectX 9.1 my GPL > hangs on the first screen. > I can see GPL see's my GF4 but it lockes my system at that screen. > > Any ideas ?? > THX in advance > Tony

I know this might be a silly question, but you haven't got indexing on or something like that? Which OS are you running? David Corless

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> "Tony" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:b8gru3$1a1f$[email hidden]... > > Hi all, > > > > After I put a Geforce 4 MX440 in my PC and installed DirectX 9.1 my GPL > > hangs on the first screen. > > I can see GPL see's my GF4 but it lockes my system at that screen. > > > > Any ideas ?? > > THX in advance > > Tony > > I know this might be a silly question, but you haven't got indexing on or > something like that? Which OS are you running?

If you're using NT/win2k/XP and have NTFS drives, yes you need to allow indexing, but the usual symptom of this is an immediate CTD, rather than just hanging. I would start by re-installing your graphics drivers. If you didn't completely remove your old graphics card drivers, this may well be the cause. Remove all your graphics drivers completely (by hand if you have to) and re-install the nVidia drivers. Hopefully it should work then. I'd be surprised if Dx9 caused the problem. Malc.

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> Hi all, > > After I put a Geforce 4 MX440 in my PC and installed DirectX 9.1 my GPL > hangs on the first screen. > I can see GPL see's my GF4 but it lockes my system at that screen. > > Any ideas ?? > THX in advance > Tony > >

What video card were you using before? Did you have direct3d chosen for your graphics BEFORE you swapped cards? If, you were still hanging onto a 3dfx, then you have to manually change the graphics raster in the config.ini from 3dfx for direct3d. dave henrie

Sorry guys !! I'm using W98se. and my old card is a TNT2 ( also nvidea ). I hope we can sort this out because I'm still a GPL junky And have been since GPL came out Tony Tony <[email hidden]> schreef in berichtnieuws b8gru3$1a1f$[email hidden]...

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> Hi all, > > After I put a Geforce 4 MX440 in my PC and installed DirectX 9.1 my GPL > hangs on the first screen. > I can see GPL see's my GF4 but it lockes my system at that screen. > > Any ideas ?? > THX in advance > Tony > >

you broke a cardinal rule of upgrades, "thou shalt not do two upgrades at once." Now you have two things to troubleshoot. I suppose I'd start with the card. Change your driver to Std VGA, reboot, don't do anything. Then uninstall your drivers, run Detonator Destroyer, reboot, and install your new drivers. If that doesn't work, then use DxBuster, uninstall Dx9, and go back to Dx 8.1 (or whatever you were running before). hth, jeff "Tony" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:b8gru3$1a1f$[email hidden]:

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> Hi all, > > After I put a Geforce 4 MX440 in my PC and installed DirectX 9.1 my GPL > hangs on the first screen. > I can see GPL see's my GF4 but it lockes my system at that screen. > > Any ideas ?? > THX in advance > Tony > >

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