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Title: GeForce 4 - fuzzy image
Post by: cboy on October 18, 2003, 05:33:59 AM
/huh.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':huh:\' /> Hi there!
I'm having a big problem with my GeForce 4 64 Mb card for more then 4 months.
From the moment I start my PC, the image quality is terrible, 640x480 and no monitor in Device Manager when I log on and after I restart the computer a couple of times, I can get the 16 bit color and the 1024x768 resolusion.
My guess is that there is nothing wrong with my driver, the problem is the card it self. Hopefully is not the AGP slot, because the PC stop responding on startup.
Thanks.
Title: GeForce 4 - fuzzy image
Post by: A+Net+MCP on October 18, 2003, 06:42:19 PM
Sounds like a driver problem. Go to the windows update site and see if their is a driver update or go to the nvidia site. Your monitor should be listed in device man.
Go to control panel\display\setting and your monitor & video card should be listed there.  You may also need a driver for the monitor. Are you using XP?
Title: GeForce 4 - fuzzy image
Post by: cboy on October 19, 2003, 08:34:39 AM
Don't think I didn't install a new driver from nvidia. My guess is that is not the driver, because I get the fuzzy image right after I start the Pc, starting with the POST part. It looks like the motherboard doesn't recongnize the video card. Any way, I think I'll buy a new card.
Thank you for your interest in helping me.
Title: GeForce 4 - fuzzy image
Post by: A+Net+MCP on October 19, 2003, 02:16:44 PM
What card are you concidering to replace your G4 64mb? I'd be happy to give you some advice. Have you flashed with the latest BIOS for your motherboard.  You could check the BIOS settings and make sure Video BIOS Shadow & Video Ram Cacheable is disabled. Agp aperture size is 64 or 128 and Init Display First is set to AGP. Is your monitor listed in device manger?
Title: GeForce 4 - fuzzy image
Post by: cboy on October 19, 2003, 04:26:13 PM
I have already upgraded my BIOS and on video config. I can only change the size of VRAM and the primary video slot. My settings are 64 M and AGP. So I don't think is the BIOS.
The monitor apears in device manager and again I'm pretty sure is not the monitor or it's driver.
I want to buy a GeForce 4 128 Mb or a GeForce 5. Anyway, they are cheap and until now no nvidia card has done any problem.
Another interesting detail is that after installing Win XP the image on startup is still fuzzy but XP is able to load the corect driver and the image quality is much better.
See ya!
Title: GeForce 4 - fuzzy image
Post by: pierroz on November 13, 2003, 01:41:18 AM
windows always set the bios to 128  not 64 or you will have alot of trouble to make your video card to work make sure you select also as a primary video AGP and not pci