GeForce MX 4000 PCI, not functioning 1

[JeffGatti]

I'm confused
I just installed a GeForce4 MX 4000 PCI in my desktop. It is an AMD Athlon 1.15 GHz with 504 MB of RAM, OS is WIN XP Pro SP2. It has an onboard Plug and play Monitor on Trident Video Accelerator Blade 3D/Pro Media, that is sharing 8 MB of RAM. I installed the hardware, installed the software, updated the drivers but now in my Display Properties settings, it is showing I have 2 monitors???

When I select the GeForce4 MX 4000 and select “Extend my Windows desktop onto this Monitor” my display shuts off, when I switch the cable to the video card, the monitor won’t even come out of sleep mode.

This is baffling , I thought these things were plug and play…any advice to make this thing work??

I haven't deleted any previous devices.

Thanks in advance,

Jeff

 

[felixc]

There must be a BIOS or mobo jumper option to disable the Blade 3D. Do this first, get rid of the drivers, and reinstall the new card and drivers.

 

[JeffGatti]

Their is no jumpers on this mobo, but I did find a setting in BIOS called "Init Display First".

I went back into Windows and disabled the current video card. I booted back up into BIOS and set the"Init Display First" selection to PCI and saved it.

I rebooted to a blank screen, plugged the VGA into the video card and there it was!!! It worked.

Thanks fro your advice. Now If I can only figure out how to disable the shared memory, I will have completed the task.

Thanks again for putting me on the right track felix.

Jeff

 

[felixc]

You're sure that there's no "peripheral menu" where you can disable it?
Maybe you can check on the web site of the mobo maker for the last BIOS version that you can flash. The option to disable the VGA and its memory may appear somewhere. But if you have 52 Megs of system memory and everything else works coorrectly, if it ain't broken don't risk reflashing it.

 

[JeffGatti]

You have a point. Many thanks

Jeff