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Originally posted by Mosaic my geforce 2 mx card is acting weird. Anything graphic intensive (ie games) freezes/crashes, whatever. Half-Life: Cannot get back to menu, erratic mouse movement Soldier of Fortune: Game freezes upon starting new game Anachronox: Runs for 2 secs, gets stuck in a loop for a minute, freezes, repeat. NFS5: Game doesn't get past first loading screen I seriously think something is wrong with the card... but I am wondering if anyone has some ideas. btw, OS is Windows 2000 pro.

NFS5 doesn't work on mine, either. Funnily enough, NFS:HP2 works like a charm. So does every other game including Splinter Cell. I'm running Win2k3 Enterprise with the 40xx drivers

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Originally posted by jon try using some 30.XX drivers, the 40.XX have caused issues on some of the machines ive been using in some games. You said the card was hot, what cooling is on the GPU and is it attached corectly and hasnt been knocked out If your geting the crashes in DX try running 3dmark2001 a few times to see if that crashes. has the card ever been overclocked at all? sometimes if the ram is overclocked on a video card to much it can cause damage, although this is rare, in most cases the system will crash before damamge is done to the card

the gpu just has a little heatsink on it. I took it off, and gave it a little wipe. card has never been overclocked.

also, I forget to mention that when the computer is turned off for a period of time (rarely), when I first turn the computer on, all the text on the screen is garbled during bootup, and then Windows boots in VGA mode. If I just let it sit @ the login screen for a few mins and reboot, its all back to normal. Almost like the card needs to warm up or something.

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whoops, my bad, I thought I had Half-Life in OpenGl when it worked, but it was actually Direct3D.

So, OpenGL games are crashing... hmmm

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From what you described what happens after boot ups sometimes sounds like the card its self could be damaged, as the only cause for the problems at bootup are hardware, either the motherboard (unlikley) or graphics card.

If you know how try clearing the CMOS on your motherboard and then go throgh the bios and re set the settings

I think the only thing you can do is check out ebay for a cheap second hand replacement, here in the uk a GF2 will go for less than £20 these days

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geforce 2 mx huh. I found the problem its a geforce 2 MX

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Originally posted by arleetec geforce 2 mx huh. I found the problem its a geforce 2 MX

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actually the only cause of problems before OS bootup are hardware related. The POST (power on self test) test that the I/O systems run is whats gonna tell you bad hardware OR >>firmware. if it starts loading windows then its a software issue moste likely.