New video card, now no Start Menu or System Tray

[dbMark]

Family asked me to help install a geForce 5200 video card into an older eMachines XP Home sp2. Install worked well, though when I tried to install drivers from the disk it said they were older drivers than what was already installed. Problem: Now the Start Menu and System tray are MISSING. Just NOT THERE. I had to take the board back out and use the mainboard's builtin video again.

Any ideas? I looked at thread779-1190431 but didn't see anything that seemed to apply. They haven't been online for a while and that's why XP sp3 isn't installed.

 

[vacunita]

Does the new card have an additional video out? If so was it connected to something else?

Sounds like maybe windows automatically extended the display to both video outs, making the start menu and tray not disappear just be located somewhere else.

Did you disable the On-board video from BIOS before installing the new card?

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[wahnula]

This page:

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/01/04/system-tray-icon-missing-from-system-tray-in-windows-xp/

is similar I believe to your issue. Check it out, might help.

Tony

Users helping Users...

 

[dbMark]

Here's the Microsoft link that says I have to turn off the built-in video adapter. I had already checked the eMachines instruction manual, it didn't say where or how, the manual didn't even say how to get into the BIOS, I think I already tried the Delete key...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818150

 

[vacunita]

ID delete doesn't work, you can try F2, or even F10.

Also most of the time it should tell you what key to press to enter setup when the computer Boots up.

Something along the lines of "Press X to Enter setup".

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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[BadBigBen]

I would suggest that you enter the SafeMode (hitting F8 at bootup (after the POST)) as that uses the build in VGA drivers and does not use the nVidia drivers...

before you do that though, go to the nVidia download website and grab the latest nVidia ForceWare drivers...

once in safemode, install the driver...

another way to get into the BIOS (if it is implemented) is to take out the battery for a few minutes, reinserting it and then powering up, should bring up the Message to Hit F1 to enter BIOS... then hit the F1 key...

Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."