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XFX GeForce 6200 AGP gone bad any ideas on resolving this? - 2010/02/01 23:51 Hey people, found this site and I think if any place will have suggestions its this one. I have an XFX GeForce 6200 card being the AGP version with 256MB memory. And a few weeks ago it just went bad in Windows, in other words it was like incompatible drivers. I have tried this card in three machines now, two with fresh Windows XP installation. Each time I try and load drivers it dies, on boot I get black screen or out of range, or messed up lines etc.

Here is the kicker the card works in Linux or on Mac OS, meaning Hackintosh fine, no issues and I can even adjust resolutions all the way up. I have run OpenGL on and all going good. So, what could have happened here. Wondered if I should try and flash the BIOS of the card? I know its a card issue and not the machine and I know it's not that the machine don't like the GeForce 6200 since I was running it for months.

And I also bought a PNY as replacement, this installed right away. So, how does a card work in any operating system that does not use actual NVIDIA drivers, but won't work in Windows except safe mode. Can you help?

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Re:XFX GeForce 6200 AGP gone bad any ideas on resolving this? - 2010/02/02 13:22 Maybe your computer, such as motherboard, power supply has some errors that prevent graphics card from being normal, or working as it should. Though since it is with different systems it is a bit strange.

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Re:XFX GeForce 6200 AGP gone bad any ideas on resolving this? - 2010/02/02 15:46 Bikerbob wrote:
And I also bought a PNY as replacement, this installed right away. So, how does a card work in any operating system that does not use actual NVIDIA drivers, but won't work in Windows except safe mode. Can you help?
Mmm, strange behavior if it worked fine for months before and now it doesn't any longer. Though since you tried in different systems this would be a card issue and then I would be thinking that if it working fine before that most likely something gotten damaged and therefore is now no longer wanting to work find once the drivers get installed. You must know that as long as the drivers are not installed it was as a standard graphics card at low 2D speed and without any features enabled.

Now as soon as the drivers are installed all that is unlocked and the card will actually be able to run in 3D mode when required but also use all the features, which seems to give you a blank screen. If you don't screw with the BIOS and it is still the original one I doubt very much that any other BIOS will make any difference, since typically it is not the BIOS doing these things but rather the hardware logic. You can always try, but make sure you made a backup first!

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Re:XFX GeForce 6200 AGP gone bad any ideas on resolving this? - 2010/02/02 18:40 Well one thing I noticed between the XFX and the PNY is that the PNY shows a BIOS screen at boot up, the XFX does not. The other thing is I have found threads about this problem in many places. I am not alone in this, sometimes it's a hardware compatibility, sometimes on-board graphics which is an issue in the system I want to run it in, but the PNY is now running with no issue. I guess this is just weird, I have never had a card work or not work operating system specific.

If I boot a Linux live CD it sees the GeForce 6200 as a NV44a and loads its drivers and I get to the desktop and can change all settings. With Windows XP I can't load the NVIDIA drivers. Now you think this might be 3D specific, that something in the 3D hardware is bad. I will try and use this in the Hackintosh mode again, see if I can run a 3D demo or game or something. As for the BIOS on the card, well I can't really use the card for much of anything now. So if I flash it I really have nothing to loose.

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Re:XFX GeForce 6200 AGP gone bad any ideas on resolving this? - 2010/02/02 20:39 The boot screen is nothing special, that is just a simple option within the graphics card BIOS that can be enabled or disabled, so that has nothing to do with it. Before you try any flashing make sure you first make a backup, cause you are never sure another BIOS will work any better!

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