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IxianMace

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Ok I've downloaded the correct driver, but when I try to install it an error dialog box pops up which says: "A device attached to the system is not functioning". I can't install it!! Perhaps there is something wrong with my motherboard then? :O

Not good. Are you sure your motherboard is a K7S5A? The question from Nyar about whether your video card is PCI or AGP needs to be answered also. That driver won't help if your video card is PCI.

IxianMace

IxianMace

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Not good. Are you sure your motherboard is a K7S5A? The question from Nyar about whether your video card is PCI or AGP needs to be answered also. That driver won't help if your video card is PCI.

How do I determine whether my video card is PCI or AGP? We're talking about the new 64Mb GeForce II aren't we? Not the old Voodoo II 12Mb? I'm pretty sure my motherboard is a K7S5A. When the computer was purchased, a CD rom with drivers that was specifically for the K7S5A motherboard components (sound card, etc, etc) came with it. I don't think they would have given us the CD for the wrong motherboard.

Nyarlathotep

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The PCI slots are the white slots on your motherboard. The AGP is the brown one. Just check which one holds your video card. usually if the video card is AGP, the first slot from above should hold the video connector (not always, but usually)..

number6

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No, there are no yellow question marks anywhere.

??? Not sure how to proceed at this point. This is the only game with the problem, right? Is your video card overclocked or something weird like that?

IxianMace

IxianMace

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This is the only game that has this problem yes. I don't overclock anything, because if I were to do so at this stage with my knowledge of hardware, then that would be just asking for trouble. I don't tamper with hardware, I'm too scared I could wreck it. :P

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number6

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So Nyar, there are no new developments or ideas to what I could do to resolve the problem? No one's posted in this thread for some time. :(

You never posted an easy report in this thread. Could you post that please?

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IxianMace

IxianMace

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Here are the things that are running in the background while I'm playing Emperor. I don't have any programs that I know of running while Emperor is running (like Anti-virus, etc, etc), and this was taken while I alt-tabbed out of Emperor and press Ctrl+Alt+Delete.

Dune

Explorer

~ef7194

Loadqm

Systray

Rundll

Emperor

Nyarlathotep

Nyarlathotep

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Have you checked the links I provided ? Especially link 1 could apply as to why you can't update your AGP driver.

I don't think the programs you have running in the background would cause this glitch to appear..

IxianMace

IxianMace

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I checked Link 1 and restored the file as it instructed, but still couldn't install the new drivers. ??? Link 2 wasn't much help, as it didn't really relate to the problem I was having, only the problem with a different program/file, which I don't use.

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