NWN/Graphics Card Problem

[Kid Charlemagne]

Argh!

I bought NWN today, as well as a Visiontek 4200 GeForce4 Card, and after I installed the card - it seems to be conflicting with my CD ROM drive - It doesn't show up anywhere, so I can't use it!

So I have NWN here on my desk, but I can't actually USE it!

Any one have any ideas how to deal with this issue?

 

[Ranger REG]

Did you read the README.TXT that is on the NWN CD-ROM?

Did you update the video driver?

Can you still operate your CD-ROM drive with other CD software?

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

Did you read the README.TXT that is on the NWN CD-ROM?

Did you update the video driver?

Can you still operate your CD-ROM drive with other CD software?

No, the CD drive doesn't work because of some kind of conflict with the graphic card, yes I updated the driver, and not the CD rom is drive is totally non-existent (except in safe mode, where it shows up in Device Manager, but still isn't active).

 

[pensiv]

Try this:

in Device Manager, select the CD-ROM drive, right click and choose "Remove." Then do the same thing for the video card and restart your computer.

Let Windows re-detect the devices and install their drivers one at a time.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Not on the same boat but in the same sea. My problem is that I am unable to get my Radeon 7000 graphic card to configure on my system. When it comes up there are four desktops side by side, fuzzy unreadable ones. I have got it to come up in 640X800 16 colors but that it.

Still trying stuff but not having any luck.

Arrrrrr.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

Try this:

in Device Manager, select the CD-ROM drive, right click and choose "Remove." Then do the same thing for the video card and restart your computer.

Let Windows re-detect the devices and install their drivers one at a time.

No dice, sadly. Actually the CD-ROM drive doesn't show up at all in Device Manager (except for under Safe Mode).

Visiontek's helpline should be opening up soon ,hopefully I can get some answers from them.

 

[Scorch]

What is your OS?

What is your operating system, KC?

If you are running Windows 9x/ME it is my suspicion that your CD ROM drive has its drivers being loaded from the config.sys and autoexec.bat rather than by Windows.

To solve that you need to edit those two files and REM out any statements that define a CD ROM drive.

In the config.sys look for something like:

device=btcdrom.sys /D : oemcd001

In the autoexec.bat look for something like:

MSCDEX.EXE /D : oemcd001 /L: D

In all honesty you should not have any config.sys or autoexec.bat running and let Windows configure everything automatically with Plug and Play.

Of course if you are running Windows 2000/XP then that would be a totally different set of problems.

Scorch

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

Problem solved: As it turned out, it was a very simple solution - the connection for the CD-R was loose, and seating it properly has resulted in mucho NWN goodness for the past few hours. Though I've died twice in the damn prison riots. Too many thugs!

 

[toberane]

I love computer problems when the solution turns out to be a simple and inexpensive one. Of course, the simple solution usually comes at the expense of many hours or perhaps days of frustrated rending of garments and gnashing of teeth.

 

[Ranger REG]

So... it was a hardware problem. Nothing else? Cool.

BTW, how did the connection got loose?