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EHM-1343 Jonathan:
I use the Ge force on my XP and it is brilliant, had it ages and no problems yet.

EHM-0654 Murray:

--- Quote ---Originally posted by Gizmo2k4
how does the GeForce FX fare with Windows XP? My current GeForce 2 is really, REALLY messing up my system in combination with WinXP.
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Gizmo,

What do you mean by messing up? I think it is fair to say that you want to be using the most recent nVidia drivers you can get (rather than those made by the card manufacturer) and as someone else said never ever overclock it.

And yes, the newer cards work in XP a lot more happily than the older ones do.

EHM-1001 Robert:
I had to change my video card two weeks ago. I installed some more RAM to the machine and the two RAM cards were not so friendly whit each other. While somehow I killed my video card :'(

So I bought a new, I changed from Geforce4 Ti4200 64MB to a GeForce FX5700 128 MB. It was about 180 euros/bucks, the same price as the GF4 2 years ago. I am very satisfied with it, it runs very smooth on my XP system. Afterall all the hw components like each other and I have now a very stable PC. I am glad ! NVIDIA rulez !!! ;)

EHM-0813 Guillermo:
With messing up I mean that my computer freezes almost every time I open Windows Explorer or any other application. I didn't have these problems with Windows' own drivers for the device, but it didn't support OpenGL so I had to download nVidia's drivers.

the newer the drivers are, the worse the problem gets, I'm afraid. My friend has this similair problem too, so I know it's the video card.

EHM-0654 Murray:

--- Quote ---Originally posted by Gizmo2k4
With messing up I mean that my computer freezes almost every time I open Windows Explorer or any other application. I didn't have these problems with Windows' own drivers for the device, but it didn't support OpenGL so I had to download nVidia's drivers.

the newer the drivers are, the worse the problem gets, I'm afraid. My friend has this similair problem too, so I know it's the video card.
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Had a nasty feeling that would be the case, and yes it does sound like the newer drivers are causing some (most) of the trouble.

Silly question... have you tried downgrading drivers back to an older version of the nVidia's drivers from when the GeForce 2 was a little more current? Might help some...

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