alice1
September 24th, 2002, 06:28 PM
a friend of mine recently had a new video card installed in order to play some newer games. when he began to play again, he began to experience program errors. following windows troubleshooting procedures he set his graphics hardware acceleration to low (from a previous setting of high).
on the low setting, the windows logo never left the screen after startup. the system will partly set up if he uses the ESC key but he says he hears several error reports when he does so.
he tried using the emergency setup floppy but it told him the settings have changed so he must try starting up in safe mode from DOS. only, using the safe mode default settings causes the system to shut down, prolly because the original video circuit is disabled to allow for the new card (n-vidia g force 4 mx420)...
he wonders:
is there a way from DOS to set the graphics acceleration back to high?
if not, is there anything you can recommend he try?
or, who could i ask who might be able to offer a solution?
-alice
on the low setting, the windows logo never left the screen after startup. the system will partly set up if he uses the ESC key but he says he hears several error reports when he does so.
he tried using the emergency setup floppy but it told him the settings have changed so he must try starting up in safe mode from DOS. only, using the safe mode default settings causes the system to shut down, prolly because the original video circuit is disabled to allow for the new card (n-vidia g force 4 mx420)...
he wonders:
is there a way from DOS to set the graphics acceleration back to high?
if not, is there anything you can recommend he try?
or, who could i ask who might be able to offer a solution?
-alice