Video Problems

[natgas]

It seems that whenever I reboot, I lose all video card and drivers; I then have to reinstall the drivers. This first happened on a Diamond 4850 so I replaced it with an EVGA 8800GT Akimbo; same thing on both. No video card is detected and then I have to reinstall. Given these circumstances, I have come to think it's either an XP Pro problem or a motherboard problem.

Any ideas why it would be happening on every reboot?

 

[Nenu]

Are you saying that it prompts you for a disk or will the drivers install using the already present files?

 

[natgas]

It doesn't prompt me for anything nor will it install automatically; I have to insert the disk and start the installation manually each time; with the 4850 it sometimes takes 2 or 3 tries to successfully install; with the 8800 it usually installs the first time. When the system boots into Windows, it just installs the windows vga driver and sets my resolution at 1600 rather than the 1920 that it is in when it shuts down.

 

[Nenu]

Its an odd problem.
Check in your CMOS that it is set to PnP OS.

Are you overclocked?
Did you install the latest motherboard drivers?

 

[natgas]

CMOS is set to pnp; no overclock; all m/b drivers updated within the last few weeks; no other updates available; it's a Gigabyte 775 m/b;

 

[Nenu]

Are you fully patched up?
What security software do you have installed?

Log in as Administrator (not an administrator), install drivers then see if the same thing happens on reboot - after logging in as Administrator again.

 

[natgas]

SP3; I typically run driver updates monthly; using McAfee Security suite--up to date.

Logged in an Administrator but it did the same thing; just seems to be either a problem within XP in retaining the drivers or the M/B; the only solution I see right now is to reinstall XP and if that doesn't cure the problem, replace my M/B.

 

[Nenu]

I agree, try another windows install on a spare drive.