16MB Pci TNT Riva

[RaF D oX]

Hey,

I just recently bought the TNT Riva and I've had some problems with it. Actually just one. I can't change the colors and resolution. It's won't change the 16 color 640x480 resolution at all.

I get a "Your Display adapter isn't configured properly"

I've tried pretty much everything to get this thing working. I've installed the newest drivers and reinstalled the whole thing about 7 times. When it prompts me to find the New Hardware I did that and it found all the hardware etc. However the same error "Your display adapter etc etc"

I have a 200MMx, 32MB Ram, Sound Blaster 16, and I'm running Microsoft Windows 95 4.00.950 B

Any help is GREATLY appreciated =) I've been tackling this card for the last 3 days and given up hope *sigh*

Thanks for your time


RaF D oX

[Bleeding Edge]

Try going about it this away:

From Display Properties' Adapter tab, click change and choose to display a list and select the show all hardware option. Select Standard display on the left (top most choice) and standard VGA on the right. Choose Yes at the next window to install this display type. Reboot. You'll be in windows standard VGA mode. Go thru the process again but this time select have disk and point to the directory where your new drivers are located. -NOTE: Have the drivers already in a folder so you'll know where to direct the installation from. You may have a folder in the Temp directory with these drivers from the previous attempts- Install and reboot.

The key is to start from Standard VGA. And not to let it find the hardware and install the drivers on its own.

Now there's something not quite clear about your post. If for some reason, your getting this message and your new drivers are actually installed, do the following:


Check the Monitor tab in Display Properties and see that your monitor is correctly selected. If it's not, select it. Go to the adapter tab and adjust the refresh rate and adjust the resolution and color depth from settings.

Edit-

Check your Bios settings. Some have the selection for AGP/PCI as the primary display device. Disable video ram caching or shadowing. Have Delayed Transaction enabled. Enable Assign IRQ to VGA or set it to Auto. Check these settings if available.

[This message has been edited by Bleeding Edge (edited 05-31-99).]

[RaF D oX]

One more thing... Is the card supposed to get that hot?? When I took it out to put in the old to test out a few things I almost burned myself. The RIVA was very hot.

[Bleeding Edge]

I just checked the one I have. It has a 486 fan on it. It's hardly warm, not even that. It's been on for several hours overclocked.

I suspect, even without the fan it doesn't get as hot as you described.

If there's a fan on yours and the temps that hot.. I don't know, doesn't sound right.

[RaF D oX]

No there is no fan and it did get very hot. I was very suprised as to why it was that hot. I'm thinking it could be a defective model
Since I put back my old one in and everything worked perfectly.

[David]

Try reloading your monitor driver, maybe you have loaded a monitor driver for 640x480, try picking a 800x600 driver/plug & play monitor. Also try going into control panels/../device manager and delete the display driver and monitor driver at the same time and reboot. Did you have a voodoo card before in the same system?

[RaF D oX]

Thanks for all the help fellows. Although I couldn't get it working I really appreciate it. I send it back to the manufacturer and I should be getting a new one within a week =)

Hopefully that'll work this time.

Also my former graphics card was/is a Trident TGUI 8600 with 1MB