Upgrade nvidia 5200 to nvidia 6200 OC, interested in a hot new intelmob for $100+- ...

[Guest Bob]

Upgrade nvidia 5200 to nvidia 6200 OC, interested in a hot new intelmob for $100+- ...

 

Ogg, Mike M, and all those still interested

 

I just ran across your conversation thread from July 31, 2007 that is

close to a problem I’m having.

I upgraded to the Nvidia 5200 several months back and had good results

with it for a couple months. Then it began to fail in odd ways so I

upgraded it to the BFG Tech version of “Nvidia GeForce 6200 OC.”

 

This works well except if / when my system starts to go to sleep and

puts up the screen saver, it will lock up. The only way to get it back

is to cycle power.

 

Can someone give me the skinny on how to surmount? I don't even

remember how to change the timer for putting up the screen saver.

 

Also I noticed Ogg was looking for “a *new* barebone system just old

enough to still

support WinME.” I may have some good news. This Spring I built a

little PC for daur., using a new Intel DG33BU mob, Dual Core CPU, on

board video, on board HD audio, etc. In setting its CMOS, I came

across an interesting feature that allowed it to be used with old OS’s

via mimicking an old BIOS or some such. I installed XP pro SP2 with

out making use of this feature so maybe it is intended for win2K, NT4,

winME, DOS, ??

[Guest Corday]

RE: Upgrade nvidia 5200 to nvidia 6200 OC, interested in a hot new int

 

RE: Upgrade nvidia 5200 to nvidia 6200 OC, interested in a hot new int

 

I know this sounds so basic, but check Nvidia for a driver update.

--

Corday

 

 

"Bob" wrote:

> Ogg, Mike M, and all those still interested

>

> I just ran across your conversation thread from July 31, 2007 that is

> close to a problem I’m having.

> I upgraded to the Nvidia 5200 several months back and had good results

> with it for a couple months. Then it began to fail in odd ways so I

> upgraded it to the BFG Tech version of “Nvidia GeForce 6200 OC.”

>

> This works well except if / when my system starts to go to sleep and

> puts up the screen saver, it will lock up. The only way to get it back

> is to cycle power.

>

> Can someone give me the skinny on how to surmount? I don't even

> remember how to change the timer for putting up the screen saver.

>

> Also I noticed Ogg was looking for “a *new* barebone system just old

> enough to still

> support WinME.” I may have some good news. This Spring I built a

> little PC for daur., using a new Intel DG33BU mob, Dual Core CPU, on

> board video, on board HD audio, etc. In setting its CMOS, I came

> across an interesting feature that allowed it to be used with old OS’s

> via mimicking an old BIOS or some such. I installed XP pro SP2 with

> out making use of this feature so maybe it is intended for win2K, NT4,

> winME, DOS, ??

>

>

[Guest Bob]

Re: Upgrade nvidia 5200 to nvidia 6200 OC, interested in a hot newint

 

Re: Upgrade nvidia 5200 to nvidia 6200 OC, interested in a hot newint

 

On Jun 4, 1:31 pm, Corday <cordayr...@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> I know this sounds so basic, but check Nvidia for a driver update.

> --

> Corday

>

>

>

> "Bob" wrote:

> > Ogg, Mike M, and all those still interested

>

> > I just ran across your conversation thread from July 31, 2007 that is

> > close to a problem I’m having.

> > I upgraded to the Nvidia 5200 several months back and had good results

> > with it for a couple months.  Then it began to fail in odd ways so I

> > upgraded it to the BFG Tech version of “Nvidia GeForce 6200 OC.”

>

> > This works well except if / when my system starts to go to sleep and

> > puts up the screen saver, it will lock up. The only way to get it back

> > is to cycle power.

>

> > Can someone give me the skinny on how to surmount? I don't even

> > remember how to change the timer for putting up the screen saver.

>

> > Also I noticed Ogg was looking for  “a *new* barebone system just old

> > enough to still

> > support WinME.” I may have some good news. This Spring I built a

> > little PC for daur., using a new Intel DG33BU mob, Dual Core CPU, on

> > board video, on board HD audio, etc. In setting its CMOS, I came

> > across an interesting feature that allowed it to be used with old OS’s

> > via mimicking an old BIOS or some such.  I installed XP pro SP2 with

> > out making use of this feature so maybe it is intended for win2K, NT4,

> > winME, DOS, ??- Hide quoted text -

>

> - Show quoted text -

 

Thank you for your response Corday.

Earlier I went to follow rrwoods advice as given in

http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t5247.html. This led to

looking again at the BFG drivers cd that came with this adapter. The

win9x/winME directory of the CD had no specific entry for fx6200,

fx5800 was as high as it went. It did have one for win2K so, after

using system restore to make a checkpoint, I let it rip as described

in the directory readme file.

 

The install took. The system boots with w.o. error messages but the

desktop doesn't look like tue usual Active Desktop with my usual

Yosemite background picture.

I shut it down as I had to get to work but now I'm testing to see what

happens when ( and if) the screen saver activates. Bingo - it just

activated ( the time interval was about ten minutes). These drivers

only put up a portion of the photo the previous set put up.

 

Later on, time not known, the screen went black and could not be

brought back by mouse or keyboard activity.

 

Upon cycling power, the system restarted with Scan Disk doing its

thing on drive C.

 

The monitor, keyboard and mouse for this system are managed by a KVM

box and some slight differences in the box and monitors LEDs are

apparent but the screen remains black.

[Guest Corday]

Re: Upgrade nvidia 5200 to nvidia 6200 OC, interested in a hot new

 

Re: Upgrade nvidia 5200 to nvidia 6200 OC, interested in a hot new

 

Mess around with the standard vs. custom settings in the Nvidia control

panel. You might come up with a workable configuration. Reset the screen

saver to 1 minute so you'll know quickly what happened.

--

Corday

 

 

"Bob" wrote:

> On Jun 4, 1:31 pm, Corday <cordayr...@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> > I know this sounds so basic, but check Nvidia for a driver update.

> > --

> > Corday

> >

> >

> >

> > "Bob" wrote:

> > > Ogg, Mike M, and all those still interested

> >

> > > I just ran across your conversation thread from July 31, 2007 that is

> > > close to a problem I’m having.

> > > I upgraded to the Nvidia 5200 several months back and had good results

> > > with it for a couple months. Then it began to fail in odd ways so I

> > > upgraded it to the BFG Tech version of “Nvidia GeForce 6200 OC.”

> >

> > > This works well except if / when my system starts to go to sleep and

> > > puts up the screen saver, it will lock up. The only way to get it back

> > > is to cycle power.

> >

> > > Can someone give me the skinny on how to surmount? I don't even

> > > remember how to change the timer for putting up the screen saver.

> >

> > > Also I noticed Ogg was looking for “a *new* barebone system just old

> > > enough to still

> > > support WinME.” I may have some good news. This Spring I built a

> > > little PC for daur., using a new Intel DG33BU mob, Dual Core CPU, on

> > > board video, on board HD audio, etc. In setting its CMOS, I came

> > > across an interesting feature that allowed it to be used with old OS’s

> > > via mimicking an old BIOS or some such. I installed XP pro SP2 with

> > > out making use of this feature so maybe it is intended for win2K, NT4,

> > > winME, DOS, ??- Hide quoted text -

> >

> > - Show quoted text -

>

> Thank you for your response Corday.

> Earlier I went to follow rrwoods advice as given in

> http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t5247.html. This led to

> looking again at the BFG drivers cd that came with this adapter. The

> win9x/winME directory of the CD had no specific entry for fx6200,

> fx5800 was as high as it went. It did have one for win2K so, after

> using system restore to make a checkpoint, I let it rip as described

> in the directory readme file.

>

> The install took. The system boots with w.o. error messages but the

> desktop doesn't look like tue usual Active Desktop with my usual

> Yosemite background picture.

> I shut it down as I had to get to work but now I'm testing to see what

> happens when ( and if) the screen saver activates. Bingo - it just

> activated ( the time interval was about ten minutes). These drivers

> only put up a portion of the photo the previous set put up.

>

> Later on, time not known, the screen went black and could not be

> brought back by mouse or keyboard activity.

>

> Upon cycling power, the system restarted with Scan Disk doing its

> thing on drive C.

>

> The monitor, keyboard and mouse for this system are managed by a KVM

> box and some slight differences in the box and monitors LEDs are

> apparent but the screen remains black.

>

[Guest Bob]

Re: Upgrade nvidia 5200 to nvidia 6200 OC, interested in a hot new

 

Re: Upgrade nvidia 5200 to nvidia 6200 OC, interested in a hot new

 

On Jun 5, 12:58 pm, Corday <cordayr...@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Mess around with the standard vs. custom settings in the Nvidia control

> panel. You might come up with a workable configuration. Reset the screen

> saver to 1 minute so you'll know quickly what happened.

> --

> Corday

>

>

>

> "Bob" wrote:

> > On Jun 4, 1:31 pm, Corday <cordayr...@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> > > I know this sounds so basic, but check Nvidia for a driver update.

> > > --

> > > Corday

>

> > > "Bob" wrote:

> > > > Ogg, Mike M, and all those still interested

>

> > > > I just ran across your conversation thread from July 31, 2007 that is

> > > > close to a problem I’m having.

> > > > I upgraded to the Nvidia 5200 several months back and had good results

> > > > with it for a couple months.  Then it began to fail in odd ways so I

> > > > upgraded it to the BFG Tech version of “Nvidia GeForce 6200 OC.”

>

> > > > This works well except if / when my system starts to go to sleep and

> > > > puts up the screen saver, it will lock up. The only way to get it back

> > > > is to cycle power.

>

> > > > Can someone give me the skinny on how to surmount? I don't even

> > > > remember how to change the timer for putting up the screen saver.

>

> > > > Also I noticed Ogg was looking for  “a *new* barebone system just old

> > > > enough to still

> > > > support WinME.” I may have some good news. This Spring I built a

> > > > little PC for daur., using a new Intel DG33BU mob, Dual Core CPU, on

> > > > board video, on board HD audio, etc. In setting its CMOS, I came

> > > > across an interesting feature that allowed it to be used with old OS’s

> > > > via mimicking an old BIOS or some such.  I installed XP pro SP2 with

> > > > out making use of this feature so maybe it is intended for win2K, NT4,

> > > > winME, DOS, ??- Hide quoted text -

>

> > > - Show quoted text -

>

> > Thank you for your response Corday.

> > Earlier I went to follow rrwoods advice as given in

> >http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t5247.html. This led to

> > looking again at the BFG drivers cd that came with this adapter. The

> > win9x/winME directory of the CD had no specific entry for fx6200,

> > fx5800 was as high as it went. It did have one for win2K so, after

> > using system restore to make a checkpoint, I let it rip as described

> > in the directory readme file.

>

> > The install took. The system boots with w.o. error messages but the

> > desktop doesn't look like tue usual Active Desktop with my usual

> > Yosemite background picture.

> > I shut it down as I had to get to work but now I'm testing to see what

> > happens when ( and if)  the screen saver activates. Bingo - it just

> > activated ( the time interval was about ten minutes). These drivers

> > only put up a portion of the photo the previous set put up.

>

> > Later on, time not known, the screen went black and could not be

> > brought back by mouse or keyboard activity.

>

> > Upon cycling power, the system restarted with Scan Disk doing its

> > thing on drive C.

>

> > The monitor, keyboard and mouse for this system are managed by a KVM

> > box and some slight differences in the box and monitors LEDs are

> > apparent but the screen remains black.- Hide quoted text -

>

> - Show quoted text -

 

Corday, sorry but I was out of town and with folks who don't like

their ISP choices...

Thanks anyway. - I hadn't looked at the 6200 Nvidia controls. I am

doing that now but nothing really stands out. With the windows Display

aplet Power Options Properties, I isolated the main problem to any of

the four optional shut down features. At first I had hopes it could

turn the monitor off/down but that triggers a lock-up too.

The 'policy' now is to never shutdown/spindown/black out anything.

When idle it goes thu my picture gallery. Currently it will 'idle'

for several days before locking up. If it is used once a day or so

then it seems to be OK.

 

When I read the BFG box carefully, they don't say winME is supported

at all so guess I should consider myself lucky.

 

Thanks again.

Bob in Oceanside