troubleshooting el cheapo fx 5200 video card

I'm running a Chaintech made Nvidia FX5200 with 256meg Both the Vista beta drivers failed to work and I have been incrementally going back to earlier driver versions starting from the latest ones. I'm now into the 92.XX series of drivers and I can boot up regularly. It's very unstable and normally crashes within 1.5 to 2 minutes. Since I have yet to be able to play with vista and learn it's ins and outs.
Would someone be kind enough to detail out the fastest way to switch Vista to it's lowest performance settings? keeping in mind I may only have 1.5 minutes to pull it off.
Thanks!
-Ben

Here's a couple to start you off:
Right-click on the Desktop, choose "Personalize from the context menu, click on "Visual Appearance" and uncheck the checkbox for "Enable transparent glass."
Right-click on the "Sidebar" and choose "Exit" from the context menu.
-- Ted Stevens taught me everything I know about putting internets in tubes...
"Ben Salisbury" wrote in message

I'm running a Chaintech made Nvidia FX5200 with 256meg Both the Vista beta drivers failed to work and I have been incrementally going back to earlier driver versions starting from the latest ones. I'm now into the 92.XX series of drivers and I can boot up regularly. It's very unstable and normally crashes within 1.5 to 2 minutes. Since I have yet to be able to play with vista and learn it's ins and outs.
Would someone be kind enough to detail out the fastest way to switch Vista to it's lowest performance settings? keeping in mind I may only have 1.5 minutes to pull it off.
Thanks!
-Ben

Hmm, I have one of those in a PCI slot and it's working fine. I'm using the drivers from MS (right-click card's icon in Device Manager and update the drives using "Automatically Search...").

"Ben Salisbury" wrote in message

I'm running a Chaintech made Nvidia FX5200 with 256meg Both the Vista beta drivers failed to work and I have been incrementally going back to earlier driver versions starting from the latest ones. I'm now into the 92.XX series of drivers and I can boot up regularly. It's very unstable and normally crashes within 1.5 to 2 minutes. Since I have yet to be able to play with vista and learn it's ins and outs.
Would someone be kind enough to detail out the fastest way to switch Vista to it's lowest performance settings? keeping in mind I may only have 1.5 minutes to pull it off.
Thanks!
-Ben

AGP here (forgot to mention), tried the MS defualt ones first and I get the garbled graphic bars along the bottom of the screen. It's good advice though, I've seen those work in many of the cases on the forum.
-Ben "R.U. Zerious" wrote in message

Hmm, I have one of those in a PCI slot and it's working fine. I'm using the drivers from MS (right-click card's icon in Device Manager and update the drives using "Automatically Search...").

"Ben Salisbury" wrote in message I'm running a Chaintech made Nvidia FX5200 with 256meg Both the Vista beta drivers failed to work and I have been incrementally going back to earlier driver versions starting from the latest ones. I'm now into the 92.XX series of drivers and I can boot up regularly. It's very unstable and normally crashes within 1.5 to 2 minutes. Since I have yet to be able to play with vista and learn it's ins and outs.
Would someone be kind enough to detail out the fastest way to switch Vista to it's lowest performance settings? keeping in mind I may only have 1.5 minutes to pull it off.
Thanks!
-Ben

I'll give it a shot tonight, .. Thanks
-Ben "Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote in message

Here's a couple to start you off:
Right-click on the Desktop, choose "Personalize from the context menu, click on "Visual Appearance" and uncheck the checkbox for "Enable transparent glass."
Right-click on the "Sidebar" and choose "Exit" from the context menu.
-- Ted Stevens taught me everything I know about putting internets in tubes...
"Ben Salisbury" wrote in message I'm running a Chaintech made Nvidia FX5200 with 256meg Both the Vista beta drivers failed to work and I have been incrementally going back to earlier driver versions starting from the latest ones. I'm now into the 92.XX series of drivers and I can boot up regularly. It's very unstable and normally crashes within 1.5 to 2 minutes. Since I have yet to be able to play with vista and learn it's ins and outs.
Would someone be kind enough to detail out the fastest way to switch Vista to it's lowest performance settings? keeping in mind I may only have 1.5 minutes to pull it off.
Thanks!
-Ben

Thanks Mark
It wasn't the glass it was the sidebar causing the crash.... I left the system on all night and it didn't lock up. but now I can go through and start working on why the sidebar was causing the crash.
However....I really didn't like that piece of fluff...So I do not know how much effort I'm going to put into it.
After I DL'd the updates, I went to activate and it failed....so I tried the 800# and it failed too, but the live rep worked :)
-Ben
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote in message

Here's a couple to start you off:
Right-click on the Desktop, choose "Personalize from the context menu, click on "Visual Appearance" and uncheck the checkbox for "Enable transparent glass."
Right-click on the "Sidebar" and choose "Exit" from the context menu.
-- Ted Stevens taught me everything I know about putting internets in tubes...
"Ben Salisbury" wrote in message I'm running a Chaintech made Nvidia FX5200 with 256meg Both the Vista beta drivers failed to work and I have been incrementally going back to earlier driver versions starting from the latest ones. I'm now into the 92.XX series of drivers and I can boot up regularly. It's very unstable and normally crashes within 1.5 to 2 minutes. Since I have yet to be able to play with vista and learn it's ins and outs.
Would someone be kind enough to detail out the fastest way to switch Vista to it's lowest performance settings? keeping in mind I may only have 1.5 minutes to pull it off.
Thanks!
-Ben

Well, it's a start!
-- Ted Stevens taught me everything I know about putting internets in tubes...
"Ben Salisbury" wrote in message

Thanks Mark
It wasn't the glass it was the sidebar causing the crash.... I left the system on all night and it didn't lock up. but now I can go through and start working on why the sidebar was causing the crash.
However....I really didn't like that piece of fluff...So I do not know how much effort I'm going to put into it.
After I DL'd the updates, I went to activate and it failed....so I tried the 800# and it failed too, but the live rep worked :)
-Ben
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote in message Here's a couple to start you off:
Right-click on the Desktop, choose "Personalize from the context menu, click on "Visual Appearance" and uncheck the checkbox for "Enable transparent glass."
Right-click on the "Sidebar" and choose "Exit" from the context menu.
-- Ted Stevens taught me everything I know about putting internets in tubes...
"Ben Salisbury" wrote in message I'm running a Chaintech made Nvidia FX5200 with 256meg Both the Vista beta drivers failed to work and I have been incrementally going back to earlier driver versions starting from the latest ones. I'm now into the 92.XX series of drivers and I can boot up regularly. It's very unstable and normally crashes within 1.5 to 2 minutes. Since I have yet to be able to play with vista and learn it's ins and outs.
Would someone be kind enough to detail out the fastest way to switch Vista to it's lowest performance settings? keeping in mind I may only have 1.5 minutes to pull it off.
Thanks!
-Ben