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« Reply #30 on: August 23, 2004 12:27 am CDT »
you need another monitor.  so you can install your card, then your drivers,  set your setttings low enough for your crappy monitor and  then switch them back.


Im using a monitor from 95 and I got my video card towork with it!!
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« Reply #31 on: August 23, 2004 01:31 am CDT »
but you didn't screw up like i did... my graphic's card isn't plug and play, so then i had install the driver maually. so i changed the resolution before i installed the driver, bam thats where i screwed up!
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« Reply #32 on: August 23, 2004 02:59 am CDT »
I had a problem like that with my graphics card. When I moved my computer to the other side of the house my computer would turn on and after it got past the xp loading screen the monitor would turn off like it was in sleep mode.  I thought my video card was broken. So I took my video card out and moved it down a slot...since it's pci and not agp. Then I started in safe mode,  reinstalled the drivers and restarted and it worked.  If you look on the back of your monitor it should say how many hertz it can run at.  Most monitors can run at 60.  


Your best bet would to change your resolution to the lowest it can go. Since you are running with your old video card you can change it down to like 800x600.  Then put your new video card in, start in safe mode, install the drivers and restart. That should work.
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« Reply #33 on: August 23, 2004 07:10 am CDT »
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but you didn't screw up like i did... my graphic's card isn't plug and play, so then i had install the driver maually. so i changed the resolution before i installed the driver, bam thats where i screwed up!


I had to laugh at that.
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« Reply #34 on: August 23, 2004 08:19 pm CDT »
no more help is needed...

my friend was a professional computer technician, and i told him my story...

BAM! 30 seconds, and it was all fixed..

i got super pissed because i did what you guys told me to do, i did what my other friend told me to do... i called tech support and was on the phone with them for 3 hours. All of this took me 12 hours... and it took my friend to fix it in 30 seconds....

i need to start studying!!!!
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« Reply #35 on: August 23, 2004 08:24 pm CDT »
what did he do?
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« Reply #36 on: August 23, 2004 09:06 pm CDT »
when it booted up he tapped F8

and instead of going into safe mode, he went into vga mode and then it was booted up windows!

and the rest was self explaintory..

lol what i set my resolution on was around 2000x somthin

LOL I GOT PWNED
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« Reply #37 on: August 23, 2004 09:08 pm CDT »
um you could have done the same thing in safe mode?
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« Reply #38 on: August 23, 2004 09:44 pm CDT »
it did not work for me though...

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how do i get glide to work for tribes?? i herd it's WAY smoother than open_GL
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« Reply #39 on: August 23, 2004 10:44 pm CDT »
Glide is only for 3dFX cards.  

I cant believe you didnt try all the available modes before calling tech support, you dope :lol:
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« Reply #40 on: August 23, 2004 11:03 pm CDT »
blah!

so my geforce FX 5200 won't help me at all with using glide
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« Reply #41 on: August 23, 2004 11:27 pm CDT »
no.

no


no
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« Reply #42 on: August 24, 2004 12:54 am CDT »
BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #43 on: August 24, 2004 12:55 am CDT »
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Glide is only for 3dFX cards.  

I cant believe you didnt try all the available modes before calling tech support, you dope :lol:


I WAS SCARED TO SCREW UP MY COMPUTER EVEN MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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