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marcbkk · Forum Regular Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 12

I just put together a brand new system with an Asus PK5 main board, 8GB of DDR2 Ram, and an Asus EN8600GT Silent Graphics Card (Nividia Chip).

I am running Windows XP SP2 and all drivers for both the onboard mainboard components and the graphics card installed properly without error. I am also running a dual monitor setup with the card.

Shortly after the install XP started downloading and installing updates and then I started having problems with the graphics card driver.

Basically every time I restart the computer or power it up with a cold boot the display driver reverts back to the original XP default driver (which of cource is not able to support the card properly). Then XP pops a message telling me the current manufacture’s graphics card driver I have installed can’t be used anymore and that I need to download and install an updated version.

So I went to the Asus web site and downloaded the latest release of the Asus EN8600GT VGA Driver for XP, which is version 169.21 dated 12/05/2007.

Then, once I put the driver update in, the system asks to reboot and everything is fine again with my 2 displays.

But as soon as I either restart or shut down and reboot I am back to square one with the same problem again.

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix the problem?

Many thanks,

Marc