videocard terror

[rider]

Hi there, im having trouble with my video card, it wont play any of my 3d games, it use to run fine untill i was out oneday and my little nephews jumped on and did something to it, when i got bak i was getting hardware lockups and all, so i went to troubleshooting and lowered the graphics acceleration, and everything stopped locking up, i fixed a few minor problems then went back and put the acceleration back to full level, my mame rom arcade games worked find, but when i went to play need for speed, it wouldnt work, and same with my other 3d games, i went and downloaded the lastest drivers for my video card from NVIDIA installed them, rebooted tried my game again and nothing, i went and got the latest direct x 9.0a ran the video card test and direct draw, direct 3d and AGP were all enabled, ran the test but nothing works, the spinning cube on direct 3d doesnt show, and direct draw doesnt work and yet i have the latest det drivers all installed on my computer, when i run open gl screen savers i get a runtime error, all these errors that i never use to get. Anybody no whats going on? Ive Tried uninstalling the old drivers then reinstalling the new ones,could it have anything to do with the irq's? ive heard video cards should b assigned there own irq, mine is sharing with 6 other devices, but ive read that it doesnt necersarily have to have its own, some share more then 10 and still go ok, but i also heard that irq's cant be changed, so yea whats the point of mentioning it lol, Well im lost as in what i should do. Any help would be appreciated. Thankyou.
System - windows 2000 professional 5.0 (build 2195) nvidia 44.03 det drivers

[Murf]

Hi! welcome to CTH

"little nephews jumped on and did something to it,"

Do you mean jumped on the computer itself?? Keyboard???

If on the computer, then the video card could of been slightly dis-lodged, the monitor cable could be loose...did you check those???

Open the box, take the video card out and put back in to reseat it.

If you go into CMOS (SETUP) - del 1st post screen, depending on the BIOS/Motherboard, you may be able to assign a IRQ to video.

Unless you have PCI Steering, a video card sharing with 6 other devices ain't good. What are the other devices it is sharing with???

[rider]

THANKS MAN! YOUR A GENIOUS, i went into my bios and was able to resing a irq for the videocard, i checked the hardware and everything was ok there, so must have been the irq settings, thanks again man!!

[Murf]

Glad to be of help, buy the kids a box to crush lololol