Screen Flashes Black When Xp Desktop Loads and during high periods of I/O activity.

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I have done a clean install of every driver on my system, recently I have reinstalled XP with a fresh set of drivers, it works with no problems with the VGA drivers, but as soon as i install the Nvidia drivers it goes haywire, however i might now try not installing the Via chipset drivers yet, but that is not something i class as a solution.

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ive tried all the versions of the Nvidia drivers from 44_xxxx_xxxx to current day. Still no better
hmm

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no exclamation mark in Devmgmt.msc, and works fine with new VGA card, (albeit 2Mb Pci card), this leads me to think that VIA and Nvidia chipsets conflict. Howeverm, in msinfo32 under hardware resources and conflicts and sharing:

I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF      VIA CPU to AGP2.0/AGP3.0 Controller
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF      NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440
IRQ 16      NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440
IRQ 16      Lucent Win Modem
Memory Address 0xD0000000-0xDFFFFFFF      VIA CPU to AGP2.0/AGP3.0 Controller
Memory Address 0xD0000000-0xDFFFFFFF      NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440
Memory Address 0xE0000000-0xE1FFFFFF      VIA CPU to AGP2.0/AGP3.0 Controller
Memory Address 0xE0000000-0xE1FFFFFF      NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF      PCI bus
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF      VIA CPU to AGP2.0/AGP3.0 Controller
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF      NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB      VIA CPU to AGP2.0/AGP3.0 Controller
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB      NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440

There is a lot of sharing between the via agp chipset and the Nvidia card, I am begining to believe that this could be the source of the problem, but cannot change it in devmgmt.msc.

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Ill give that a whirl, ill have to go into the bios, to reassign it an IRQ mainly because Xp wont let me change it.

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Right, ok why didnt I think of that one lol, it seems to work but, the modem is no use to me being disabled. Is there any way of forcing Xp to let me change the IRQ of the modem because the change this setting button is greyed out??

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Tried, it only has the option for Pci/Reserved and ive enabled manual options as well in the bios, still no result, if i change the location of the modem on the board will it change the IRQ, im not sure about this one but im goin to try it if it might pose as a solution.

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good point ill give that a try right now, im feeling very optimistic as ive just got my gcse results back :D.