Directx Problems

[jimras]

Not sure if this should be posted here or under Windows Support. If I'm posting in the wrong area, I apologise!!

Well, something has changed and now I can't play any of my games.

I have pretty well narrowed it down to a conflict with DirectX and/or drivers.

My system is Athalon 2500+ (1.8 Ghz) with 512 RAM and nVidea 5200 board with 128MG RAM on board.

All of sudden, my games wouldn't boot and run and I tried everything I could think of to get things running again including Reformat and reinstalling everything.

I have tried running dxdiag.exe and it hung up the first time so I restarted everything and then it would ask if I wanted to skip loading the DirecX stuff because it didn't finish last time and I said yes. Then when you look at the Display tab, it shows that Direct3D is now disabled and it will hang up if I try to test the directdraw, too.

I have the most recent DirectX installed version 9c and I also have the most recent nVidea drives installed as well.

This is SO frustrating. Has anybody else had problems like this and what did you do to solve the problem???

[jimras]

Well, it's kind of unusual that I would figure out this problem by myself but I did it.

It turns out that after the reinstall, the motherboard utilities disk was installing a driver that caused a MAJOR conflict and after thinking about this, I cleaned off the HD and did ANOTHER reinstall (I've done so many that I almost have the product key memorized!)

After this last install, the ONLY driver that I let the motherboard utilities CD install was the one to get the onboard soundcard working.

Now everything checks out fine.

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!

I hope somebody can learn from MY mistakes!!