Nokiamies Posted January 10, 2021 Posted January 10, 2021 I have been building quadboot (Windows ME, win2000, xp and nt4 sp6) system with following specs: Asus p4p800 motherboard, 2x512mb ram, Gainward geforce 6800 gt golden sample 256 mb agp, Pentium 4 2.80ghz, dvd drive and cd drive. On nt4 side all went fine until installed Nvidia forceware 77.72 driver. After reboot screen was disorted like on picture I attached. NT4 boots fine on VGA mode and gpu got no issues. I did run 3dmark on xp and 98 side and worked fine so gpu is not faulty. On bios I have enabled limit cpuid value and disable hyperthreading and I tried older drivers too. Also nic (3com LOM 3C940) keeps giving DHCP error even works fine on xp or 98 side. I used nic driver off asus cd. Anyone else had issues on 6xxx card under nt4?
jaclaz Posted January 10, 2021 Posted January 10, 2021 1 hour ago, Mr.Scienceman2000 said: On nt4 side all went fine until installed Nvidia forceware 77.72 driver. After reboot screen was disorted like on picture I attached. NT4 boots fine on VGA mode and gpu got no issues. It seems to me like you already pinpointed the issue, those drivers are not good (at least on your board). Have you tried the VBEMP driver? jaclaz
Nokiamies Posted January 10, 2021 Author Posted January 10, 2021 20 minutes ago, jaclaz said: It seems to me like you already pinpointed the issue, those drivers are not good (at least on your board). Have you tried the VBEMP driver? jaclaz VBEMP drivers lack 3d accerlation and also wont allow some refresh rates (over 60hz) so would want make any nvidia driver to work
jaclaz Posted January 10, 2021 Posted January 10, 2021 Yep, I know. The 77.72 is strangely listed as having been released earlier than the 77.18 and than the 77.56: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/winnt-archive/ maybe they are worth a try . jaclaz
Nokiamies Posted January 10, 2021 Author Posted January 10, 2021 13 minutes ago, jaclaz said: Yep, I know. The 77.72 is strangely listed as having been released earlier than the 77.18 and than the 77.56: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/winnt-archive/ maybe they are worth a try . jaclaz Been trying few versions already. 66.93, 71.84, 77.72. Also that nvidia site it broken. You can find files if got direct link example http://download.nvidia.com/Windows/77.72/77.72_winnt4_english.exe but they broke site to it. Need use some wayback machine and copying to find them
jaclaz Posted January 10, 2021 Posted January 10, 2021 Yes, but googling for the file name should be possible to find a copy: 77.56_winnt4_english.exe Then it has to be seen if they are actually suitable to your card . jaclaz
Nokiamies Posted January 10, 2021 Author Posted January 10, 2021 8 minutes ago, jaclaz said: Yes, but googling for the file name should be possible to find a copy: 77.56_winnt4_english.exe Then it has to be seen if they are actually suitable to your card . jaclaz All of them did same result sadly. No warnings on event log why when booted vga mode.
roytam1 Posted January 10, 2021 Posted January 10, 2021 17 minutes ago, Mr.Scienceman2000 said: All of them did same result sadly. No warnings on event log why when booted vga mode. what about older? ftp://ftp.leadtek.com.tw/entertainment_graphics/Drivers/040601/WNT_NV40_40520.zip ftp://ftp.leadtek.com.tw/entertainment_graphics/Drivers/040728/WNT_ALL_40722.exe
Nokiamies Posted January 10, 2021 Author Posted January 10, 2021 27 minutes ago, roytam1 said: what about older? ftp://ftp.leadtek.com.tw/entertainment_graphics/Drivers/040601/WNT_NV40_40520.zip ftp://ftp.leadtek.com.tw/entertainment_graphics/Drivers/040728/WNT_ALL_40722.exe I need try those once back home on my workstation
Nokiamies Posted January 10, 2021 Author Posted January 10, 2021 3 hours ago, roytam1 said: what about older? ftp://ftp.leadtek.com.tw/entertainment_graphics/Drivers/040601/WNT_NV40_40520.zip ftp://ftp.leadtek.com.tw/entertainment_graphics/Drivers/040728/WNT_ALL_40722.exe I tried both of those same result sadly. AGP 6xxx card should work on nt 4.0 sp6 and my p4p800 mainboard supports nt 4.0.
roytam1 Posted January 10, 2021 Posted January 10, 2021 3 hours ago, Mr.Scienceman2000 said: I tried both of those same result sadly. AGP 6xxx card should work on nt 4.0 sp6 and my p4p800 mainboard supports nt 4.0. did you uninstall previous driver before installing next one? it may not replace newer driver when you install older one.
Nokiamies Posted January 11, 2021 Author Posted January 11, 2021 (edited) 8 hours ago, roytam1 said: did you uninstall previous driver before installing next one? it may not replace newer driver when you install older one. I did remove drive before new one every time and even did reinstall OS to verify there is was no corruption. First I installed Windows NT 4.0 with sp3 from my original unscratched finnish cd then upgraded to Service Pack 6a from my Microsoft service pack 6a update cd (ordered from microsoft long ago) Edited January 11, 2021 by Mr.Scienceman2000
jaclaz Posted January 11, 2021 Posted January 11, 2021 (edited) I wonder if it could be an issue related to some "default" or "pre-set" settings in the driver (only in the NT 4.00 version) or in the registry that is incompatible with your monitor. Cannot say if there is a way or a program like setres (setres won't likely work in NT 4.00): https://atrandom.iansharpe.com/setres.php to set the resolution and the refresh rate to some basic vga setting, like 640x480@60Hz Good ol' PoweStrip should work on NT 4.00, but cannot say if it could be useful in safe mode: https://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm jaclaz Edited January 11, 2021 by jaclaz
Nokiamies Posted January 16, 2021 Author Posted January 16, 2021 On 1/11/2021 at 11:08 AM, jaclaz said: I wonder if it could be an issue related to some "default" or "pre-set" settings in the driver (only in the NT 4.00 version) or in the registry that is incompatible with your monitor. Cannot say if there is a way or a program like setres (setres won't likely work in NT 4.00): https://atrandom.iansharpe.com/setres.php to set the resolution and the refresh rate to some basic vga setting, like 640x480@60Hz Good ol' PoweStrip should work on NT 4.00, but cannot say if it could be useful in safe mode: https://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm jaclaz I tried use vga and on reboot had glitch but this time black background instead of green. Seems any reso does different type of pattern. Kernel was halted point glitch happened bit no errors on log.
Nokiamies Posted February 16, 2021 Author Posted February 16, 2021 I have tried multiple driver versions and issue is either on mainboard or agp gpu. NT4 works on pci e variant of same gpu. I guess driver is not compatible with agp
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