"Dead" NVIDIA GPU

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James W Send message Joined: 26 May 12 Posts: 51 Credit: 4,956,027 RAC: 13	Message 1463408 - Posted: 12 Jan 2014, 6:28:39 UTC My NVIDIA 8400 GS apparently died (scrambled video and keep getting BSOD on my Pentium 4 XP machine saying either have bad driver or video card physically gone bad). I reloaded both current and older (pre-gaming) drivers with no change. I tried going back to my built-in video driver, but no action at all and device manager still shows the Nvidia video card. Would I actually have to pull the old card out in order for the original video "card" to be again recognized? At least I could get the machine back to doing at least CPU crunching in its little way. Thanks! ID: 1463408 ·

Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489	Message 1463414 - Posted: 12 Jan 2014, 6:48:07 UTC Yes you will have to remove the card to get the onboard to work. Sorry to hear about your loss. Cheers. ID: 1463414 ·

spitfire_mk_2 Send message Joined: 14 Apr 00 Posts: 563 Credit: 27,306,885 RAC: 0	Message 1463415 - Posted: 12 Jan 2014, 6:50:06 UTC - in response to Message 1463408. My NVIDIA 8400 GS apparently died (scrambled video and keep getting BSOD on my Pentium 4 XP machine saying either have bad driver or video card physically gone bad). I reloaded both current and older (pre-gaming) drivers with no change. I tried going back to my built-in video driver, but no action at all and device manager still shows the Nvidia video card. Would I actually have to pull the old card out in order for the original video "card" to be again recognized? At least I could get the machine back to doing at least CPU crunching in its little way. Thanks! Do you have gpu on the motherboard? ID: 1463415 ·

James W Send message Joined: 26 May 12 Posts: 51 Credit: 4,956,027 RAC: 13	Message 1463416 - Posted: 12 Jan 2014, 6:59:27 UTC - in response to Message 1463415. Yes, I have an "on-board" GPU built into my motherboard, though it's not a BOINC/SETI@Home compliant unit. Don't remember the brand off hand now. It's a 10-year-old HP machine. ID: 1463416 ·

spitfire_mk_2 Send message Joined: 14 Apr 00 Posts: 563 Credit: 27,306,885 RAC: 0	Message 1463419 - Posted: 12 Jan 2014, 7:23:32 UTC - in response to Message 1463416. Yes, I have an "on-board" GPU built into my motherboard, though it's not a BOINC/SETI@Home compliant unit. Don't remember the brand off hand now. It's a 10-year-old HP machine. Do you turn it on/off in bios? ID: 1463419 ·

Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489	Message 1463421 - Posted: 12 Jan 2014, 7:50:52 UTC - in response to Message 1463419. Do you turn it on/off in bios? With any P4 chipset that had onboard video, the onboard video would never work while a dedicated card was plugged in. ;-) Cheers. ID: 1463421 ·

spitfire_mk_2 Send message Joined: 14 Apr 00 Posts: 563 Credit: 27,306,885 RAC: 0	Message 1463682 - Posted: 12 Jan 2014, 20:20:17 UTC - in response to Message 1463421. Do you turn it on/off in bios? With any P4 chipset that had onboard video, the onboard video would never work while a dedicated card was plugged in. ;-) Cheers. Ah. Ok. I never bothered with P4, I went straight from P3 to C2D, skipping the whole P4, PD, Pentium Dual-Core generations. ID: 1463682 ·

kittyman Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004	Message 1463686 - Posted: 12 Jan 2014, 20:23:11 UTC - in response to Message 1463682. Do you turn it on/off in bios? With any P4 chipset that had onboard video, the onboard video would never work while a dedicated card was plugged in. ;-) Cheers. Ah. Ok. I never bothered with P4, I went straight from P3 to C2D, skipping the whole P4, PD, Pentium Dual-Core generations. I went from MMX to Sempron, to C2D. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster ID: 1463686 ·

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