Hi, I know with the expertise here, light can be shed on what's going on with my video. What follows are two posts at AnandTech Forums - Video - Gainward Drivers,


First Post:

Hi, this could be a stupid question, but here goes - I have a new Gainward GeForce3 PowerPack!!!, Golden, Ti/450, 64mb, 4.0ns DDR TV Sample, and for it I installed the driver and utilitys from the CD that came withit - ExperTool ver. 2.79, and VGA Driver ver. 4.13.01.2250.

I'm assuming 2250 refers to NVIDIA Detonator driver ver 22.50. Is this the most current drivers? for this card by Gainward.

And has anyone used ExperTool's Smart update, How do you use it (no help file for it).

Thank you
Jim

Last Post:

Thank you,

I installed the NVIDIA 23.11 driver, that went fine and everything is working.

Except one thing, I'm having one strange thing happening, and I did not have this problem with the old display adapter. The problem is when I set the Screen area to 1024 by 768 the screen image split to two fuzzy horizontal sections, and if I manage to reboot and accept this setting I get a blank screen.
The only way I can get around this, has been to change the monitor to Super VGA 1024x768 @ 75 Hz, where as before the new Gainward GeForce3 card the Monitor would be detected as a Plug and Play monitor.

I asking is this a budget monitor thing, or is there something wrong with the Gainward card?

The monitor is a 17" digital AutoScan color monitor, and as per the Manual the optimum resolution up to 1024x768 pixels non-interlaced at a maximum 85Hz refresh rate, and the max display being 1280x1024 ? What is happening.

Thanks
Jim

Should mension that this occured with both Drivers (I don't think it has anything to do with the drivers.)