[ABSTRAX]

Assembled a PC for a friend using a Foxconn K7S741GXMG-6L SiS741GX Mobo

I set up Windows XP Pro SP2 on the system and everything is fine... I then get to installing the drivers packaged with the motherboard, restarting after each and everything installs perfectly fine...

However once the VGA driver is installed and I restart the screen is horribly corrupted, shrunk into the middle and replicated a number of times over... basically, the desktop cannot be displayed as it should, and is ridiculously unusable...

Now I'm wondering if its a problem with the VGA driver on the CD it being corrupt, or if it is an issue with the monitor... this is the second PC I've built using the Foxconn motherboard, and the first had no problems of the likes but I was using a different monitor... is there a compatability issue with the monitor? It was a monitor which came packaged with a Hewlett Packard bundle in 98


Looking for a solution... the PC isn't going to be used as a gaming machine, so will I be fine without the VGA installed? Or is the VGA essential, and if I want to install it is a new monitor is required?

 

[Saga Lout]

If the display before you installed the driver was OK, don't bother with it. As you say, the CD could be flawed or bundled with the wrong drivers so XP has probably sorted out the right ones for you.

 

[Jack Horner]

Before you installed the video drivers, what were your screen settings?
Try booting into VGA mode and see if the screen is usable.
Do you have a newer monitor you can try ?
Some newer video cards have refresh rates that are to fast for older monitors, and that will cause what you are describing.