Last year a local shop upgraded my computer with a new PC266 Socket A M810 motherboard, as this came with on board graphics & sound, my old cards were discarded. Unfortunatly MS Combat F/S & Colin McRae Rally 2 did not work so I decided to upgrade to an nVidia Geforce4 MX440SE card with 64 mb. As the shop has conveniently gone out of business I tried to install it myself, have run into problems, first I had dificulty removing the onboard grahics but did eventualy get it working, now the following problems have defeated me.
1/ the system siezes up, at first after only a few minutes but I have carried out a system maintenance & stopped the scree saver & now it can be anything from 5 nins to an hour + before it freezes.
2/ FS Combat 2 runs but usualy freezes after about 10 - 20 min & C/M Rally 2 only gets as far as the opening screens. My ither F/S games usual run O/K.
3/ After the Desktop apears, tries to access the Floppy drive for about 30 seconds, so I have to leave a formatted disc in to stop it.
4/ The printer, an HP 940c, seems to take a lot longer to start printing now.
I have looked at other items on the site & tried some solutions but none seem to have any effect, also msinfo does not show any problem.
The board has an AMD 1.2 chip with 256 mb memory (one stick), the card has 64 mb & there is a Plextor CDRW, also there are both SSCI & IDE hard drives.
Deano.
1/ the system siezes up, at first after only a few minutes but I have carried out a system maintenance & stopped the scree saver & now it can be anything from 5 nins to an hour + before it freezes.
2/ FS Combat 2 runs but usualy freezes after about 10 - 20 min & C/M Rally 2 only gets as far as the opening screens. My ither F/S games usual run O/K.
3/ After the Desktop apears, tries to access the Floppy drive for about 30 seconds, so I have to leave a formatted disc in to stop it.
4/ The printer, an HP 940c, seems to take a lot longer to start printing now.
I have looked at other items on the site & tried some solutions but none seem to have any effect, also msinfo does not show any problem.
The board has an AMD 1.2 chip with 256 mb memory (one stick), the card has 64 mb & there is a Plextor CDRW, also there are both SSCI & IDE hard drives.
Deano.