DescentBB

I've got a geforce4 and after a recent SP2 installation, I downloaded and installed the updated drivers from the NVIDIA website. Since that, my screen would start shaking (if it makes sense: it looked like the individual horizontal displays lines were randomly moving left and right). This would normally happen 30 minutes or so after startup.

After this kept happening, I tried to fix the problem. I figured that it was the new driver causing the problem. So, I tried to roll it back. That really messed things up. Now Windows wouldn't boot. The screen showed the dos loading process fine, but as soon as windows started to load, my screen went blank, displayed "power save mode" and restarted the computer.

It will boot fine in safe mode. I did this and uninstalled the new NVIDIA driver. Upon restart, windows booted just fine. So I re-downloaded the same driver and tried to install it. BAM, same thing...windows wouldn't load. So I went back into safe mode and uninstalled the driver.

Now windows boots fine, but has no driver for my card and the one off the NVIDIA website screws things up. My card isn't recognized in the device manager list...there is just an unknown Video Controller.

any ideas on what could have caused the vid card to disappear from the device manager?

Sounds like your video card went teets up

wonderful, was afraid that might be a reason, will try an old one and see.

so even on startup when it flashes what kind of card i have and tells me there's 128 megs on the card it still could have gone belly up?

thanks bubba

For that card the 61.77 driver should do fine. Jitter in the picture is most likely not a driver issue, it sounds more like some hardware component starting to give out (cap dried out eg.) May be the monitor as well, try a different monitor if you've access to one.

What driver did you have installed and what driver messed your system up (61.77 or 66.81) ?

the 61.77, the jittering didn't start happening until after the install to 61.77, even going back to 56.64 didn't solve the problem.