ASUS/Gainward Conflict?

[Daryl]

Has anyone heard of a problem involving a conflict between the Asus A7V133 Athlon board and the Gainward GeForce 4 Ti 4200? I have been pulling my hair out over it for about a month!

[BadBrain]

For what it's worth I'm running a Gainward GF4 Ti4200 on an ASUS A7V (not 133) with no problems at all.

Exactly what kind of problems are you having?

[Daryl]

No game that requires Directx 8 or higher will run. I can not get a satisfactory Direct3d test in Dxdiag, it always has an "Error Line 5" etc.
I have tried updating M/B bios, and every driver I can find. I am running Win XP Pro and have installed SP1. I didn't have these problems in Win ME.

[Candyman]

Make a list of all the drivers you have updated. They should include:

nvidia drivers, recommend the 41.03 betas
directx, version 8.1b
sound card drivers, most recent version
via 4in1 drvers, version 4.43v

Check your connections, power and expansion cards, making sure they are all the way seated and connected properly.

[BadBrain]

Definitely re-install DirectX.

[grover]

Originally posted by BadBrain
For what it's worth I'm running a Gainward GF4 Ti4200 on an ASUS A7V (not 133) with no problems at all.

Same here.

[Daryl]

Okay, I tried all that stuff. Latest and greatest af all the drivers. DirectX 8.1b (big file!) and re-seated the card,still the same problem.
Specifically, in Dxdiag, test direct3D, it runs directx7 interfaces fine, but when it tries to run directx8 interfaces I get the following message.
Dirct3D Test Results: Failure at step 5 (GetDeviceCaps): HRESULT = 0x8876086a (3D Not Availabe)
What gives?

[grover]

I did have an odd problem with my TNT2 that it just suddenly stopped working last christmas (I hadn't installed any software or done any hardware changes in weeks). But nothing with directx would work- trying to play a movie would lock my PC up, websites with activex would lock my pc, hell, even dxdiag would lock my system up. Dropping the AGP aperature to 4mb fixed it, though I had (and still have) no idea why. I was able to raise it back to 256mb when I got my Ti4200...

[Daryl]

Dropping aperture size didn't do it either. I am about to wipe the hard drive and start from scratch. Maybe I'll just stick with WinME. XP is nice but not worth all this aggravation.

[Daryl]

It's fixed.
The wierd thing is, the thing that fixed it.
I disabled Direct3D in dxdiag and inmmediately enabled it.
Problem solved. Who would have guessed?

Thanks for the help, guys.