OT: PC Problem

Atrocities · #1 April 10th, 2005, 12:36 AM

Ok, I decided to roll the dice and upgrade the new/old P2 400 I just got. I placed my old 3dfx card into its AGP slot and tried to install win2k. I set it to NTSF format and well once it finished converting the files it shut the monitor off and well.... I cannot get it to come back on no matter what I do. The PC has an on the mother board video card but I have never had this happend before. The AGP slot always bumped the on board video. I figured perhaps I need to set the bios, but again I cannot get the PC to turn on the monitor no matter if I use the 3dfx card or the OB video card. Any suggestions?

P2 400 HP Pavilion Antique POS.

Atrocities · #2 April 10th, 2005, 02:36 AM

I guess when I swapped it from FAT32 to NTSF I messed something up....

I am going to pull the 3dfx card and see if that helps.

Its really no big loss, I can buy a new POWER supply for my old tower and if need be buy a new HD for $50.00 and a cheap Geforce MX card and go from their.

I just wanted to get a pc up and running so my nephews could play head to head quake 2.

BTW, the expansion packs for Quake will not install on XP. Any one know a way to circumvent this?

Thermodyne · #3 April 10th, 2005, 11:04 AM

AGP info
Take a look at this. It could be your problem.

Atrocities · #4 April 10th, 2005, 03:35 PM

I think its a heat issue. After a while I tried it again and it worked. However whenever the PC is restarted, after an update say, I have to leave it off for a bit, about 20 minutes, before I restart it and hope that it restarts the monitor.

Any one know a good site for getting the old 3dfx drivers?

David E. Gervais · #5 April 10th, 2005, 05:43 PM

Here you go...

VooDooFiles.Com

Cheers!

Atrocities · #6 April 10th, 2005, 05:45 PM

Thanks David