does anyone know how i could install my geforce 4 on a via chipset the damm thing freezes everytime it tries to install new hardware

Did u install the via 4in1 drivers first? You need those before u can get any video hardware to work properly.
http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=2

\SOKO

ok i installed the via 4 in 1 drivers and this thing still doesnt work and also i just bought this card about 3 weeks ago so i cant take it back to the store and get a refund so im stuck with this crappy card any suggestions on what else i could do.

could u provide more info on whats happening..also, provide more specs of your system so we can further analyze any well known bugs that might help you. Refer to http://www.gforcefaq.com.

If you only bought it 3 weeks ago you certainly should be able to take it back. could be a bad card.

jr,

have u tried disabling sideband adressing in the bios? what via chipset do
u use, kt266, kt266a, kt333 etc. ? depending on what set and card u use, it`s possible, that u should try to disable fastwrites 2, so give it a shot and
let me know....

ok i have a athlon 1600+ and 256 megs of ddr ram and windows xp home
and i have the via km266 chipset and my card is a geforce 4 mx 420 anyways i put the card in the pci slot and boot up then when i get to windows it says it found new hardware then when it tries to look for the drivers it freezes and thats it then i have to reboot but when i get to windows again and try to look for new hardware it will not recognize anything in the pci slots so i have to shut down and remove my card from the pci slot and put it in another slot.

I've got the same problem, I've got a Asus A7V with VIA and tried now for two days to get the damn Gforce 4400 to work. Every time I install the nvidia drivers (or Gainward that came with the card) and reboots the computer freezes.
I also tried with an older grafics card TNT Riva and it all works fine, the problems occur first when the new card is inserted. I also tried the gforce4 card in another computer and that worked fine..

Have tried:
New Via Drivers
New Bios (award 1005, 1007, 1011)
Detonator drivers (27.xx and 28.32)
Removed other pci cards
Reinstalled Xp (why not...)
Changed Bios settings (agp fast write, 2X, bios mem from Agp, etc, etc.)

Read tons of pages on the net about people with same problem, but still no fix on my machine.

Any advice is hugely appreciated (need to get back in GTA3 game!)

Buy another motherboard without that crappy VIA on VIA sucks

I have an ASUS AV7 motherboard and a PNY Geforce 4 4400 and they work fine together, now...

I had to roll back to the 1007 BIOS for the Motherboard.
Install the latest 4 in 1 VIA drivers.
When the computer booted and said found new hardware - I hit the cancel button let it boot up and manually installed the Nvidia Refrence Drivers. (PNY uses these they don't write thier own)

Do your self a favor and take it to someone that knows something about computers (by what you have written you dont ). You have the sytem all screwed up with all your feable attempts to get it to work. If you dont know anyone and cant afford a tech then, i would suggest reformating your drive and installing the OS with that video card installed.

Dont forget to load the 4-n-1's first then the video drivers it wont work any other way, for you dont have the savy.

Hmmm a pci based G4 didnt know know they had any pci models

Good Luck

It's AGP, but thanks for noticing my writing mistakes
(delete word "other").

Pay to get it fixed?? No way, where's the fun in that?? And how am I going to learn anything if I never try..

I've already tried what you wrote, but by XP startup window (starting for the first time) the black background has sveral blue squares and stripes (yes, the card is attached correctly in the agp port).

Btw, since I according to Stinky has no idea about pc thecs, isn't it reasonable to assume that if a gforce3 ti 200 works fine (3dmark 5000 pts), all you have to do is to change the cards, uninstall and install new nvidia drivers and it should work?? The 4-in-1 drivers shouldn't then be the reasons it crashes?
Or should I just throw my card out the window and start drinking and watch England beat Argentina is soccer instead?

I don't know if this has been solved or not because I'm too lazy to read it all, but when my buddy purchased his GF4 MX440, the guy who sold it to him specifically asked him if his motherboard was a model KT266 or higher. Apparently, if your motherboard is older than that, the GF4 won't be compatible w/ it. That means I can't get one