ady8077
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| posted on 4/7/04 at 05:09 PM |
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Hi all
When i went to turn on my pc the monitor didn't come on, i tried a spare and still the same. Unpluged the grafics card, couldn't see
anything wrong, wiped the contacts and plugged it in and it now works 
Any way to test if its faulty? Or could it be something else?
Adrian
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britishtrident
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| posted on 4/7/04 at 05:55 PM |
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Mains conector worked itself out a couple of mm or the graphics card just needed reseated in its Pci or AGP slot --- Both quite common.
Also possible that someother card tried to grab the graphics cards IRQ -- tends to happen more with Nvidia chipset cards.
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ady8077
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| posted on 6/7/04 at 09:26 PM |
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Hi again
Looks like it was my grafics card that is faulty, i have swaped it for an old one and my pc's working
Problem is i cant find the driver disk and im stuck in 16 colour mode, card had no mame on it only 3DFX, any suggestions on finding what card
i've got and where to get drivers from
Thanks Adrian
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pbura
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| posted on 6/7/04 at 09:38 PM |
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The wonders of Google --
http://www.3dfx.com/
Pete
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britishtrident
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| posted on 6/7/04 at 09:40 PM |
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Start by looking at the chipset should be a clue somewhere on -- then the nightmare begins getting the exact model. ATI cards are usually clearly
marked as are S3 and Trio Just hope it isn't an Nvidia Riva/ TNT they can be swines to set up even with the correct driver because they among
other things don't allow proper dectection of plug and play monitors.
If you can't find the manufactures site on Google try http://www.driverguide.com/ it usually has them --- don't apply for a user
name to download you will just get spammed log on as user "drivers" with password "all"
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ady8077
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| posted on 6/7/04 at 09:41 PM |
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Thanks Pete
I can't get google to load, i can only just read these post 
Adrian
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Mark Allanson
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| posted on 6/7/04 at 09:54 PM |
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If its a voodoo, and you have broadband, I would email you drivers (voodoo's are 3dfx based, may work for other cards)
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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britishtrident
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| posted on 6/7/04 at 09:55 PM |
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In situations like that I sometimes stick a Knoppix cd in and boot from that -- Knoppix hardware detection is ace if you watch carefully as it
boots it will identify the graphic card model.
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ady8077
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| posted on 6/7/04 at 10:16 PM |
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Thanks guys
Looks like its a voodoo3 2000, well thats the driver i've just loaded and everything looks ok 
Adrian
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