No graphics after reboot

Just sold my old Jetway aspro mobo and 900 mhz athlon cpu and my geforce 2 mx 400 to my nephew after i recently upgraded my own system.

I know everything should be working as it's my own old system.
On the black screens at bootup you see the cpu speed'ram and the graphics card'so seems all connected ok.

I installed w98 as i've done numerous times before on the same equipment and it came up as ok.

I then installed the 23.11 nvidia drivers as i have always done before'but after booting all we got was the background screen.There were no taskbars/icons/toolbars.

Just a plain seagreen rectangle.

Any ideas?

Thanx

Did you update the chipset drivers and DirectX before installing the nVidia drivers?

If you boot into Safe Mode, does the same problem occur?

Did you use the installation launcher in the driver set when installing the drivers, or did you extract the drivers into a folder, and then upgrade the Standard VGA driver in the Device Manager? Sometimes the installation launcher can be corrupted during a download. The manual method is best.

If you can get into Safe Mode, and have a working desktop, I'd suggest that you delete the video card in the Device Manager, and remove the drivers in Add/Remove Programs. Then download and run <A HREF="http://guru3d.com/detonator-destroyer/" target="_new">Detonator Destroyer</A>.

Then, reinstall the Standard VGA Adapter. This needs to be present and <i>functioning</i> before adding the video card drivers. Download a fresh copy of the Nvidia drivers, and extract them into a folder. Install the latest chipset drivers for the mainboard. Then install DirectX 8.0a or 8.1. Finally, update the video card drivers manually.

If you can't get into Safe Mode, or there is no desktop after attempting to do so, I'd format and start over from scratch, instead of investing a lot of time troubleshooting the problem. That would probably be faster.

Note: It is best to update or upgrade all other drivers in the system before installing the nVidia video card drivers, even if this makes it harder to see the display while you work. This gives you the best shot for stability, as this method tends to avoid driver conflicts with other devices.

If none of this works, and you end up back at a blank screen, you might try installing the operating system with as few devices as possible, just in case there is some kind of IRQ conflict. And check your BIOS settings. Make sure that the AGP port is assigned an IRQ (if possible) and that the system is set for AGP first, instead of PCI. Keep PCI Slot 1 on the mainboard clear, if possible.

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