Now for quite some time, my computer worked fine with the aforementioned monitor. But I had to re-install XP and it’s not compatible. I don’t install my drivers off XP I install them off a NVIDIA folder which I assume has the current working drivers. (I’ve tried XP, worse problems, only 4 bit colour, and 800 x 600 res) I reboot after installation and it works fine, unfortunately, the next time I boot up, it says the device won’t start, and I get stuck with the crappy drivers. I tried, going to NVIDIA site, but it doesn’t work. Help!?
Uninstall all current drivers using add/remove programs, then download and install the latest drivers from nVidia.com. If it still doesn’t work, try using Driver Cleaner to remove the drivers, then again downloading and installing the latest drivers.
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But how is this possible? All hardware from all vendors works with XP. I’ve been told this many, many times. Nothing works with Linux; everything works with XP. Having to troubleshoot drivers is one reason no one uses Linux.
You have to be wrong. It’s XP. Everything works with XP.
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There most certainly are nVidia drivers for Linux, I use them on my Mandrake machine.
What’s that ‘whooshing’ sound?
In response to the OP - I have the same hardware/software combination and it works fine.
I know some folk have had lots of problems with the latest NVIDIA drivers and winXP.
I have a Ti4600 card from Creative Labs and it just will not work with the latest NVIDIA drivers, I d/l’d the Creative drivers from their website and all is ok.
It was installation of those latest drivers that prompted my move from my old card, as I thought this was the problem.
My previous card was a MX400 card that is supposed to work on those latest NVIDIA drivers but it crashed out.
My suggestion is that you go to the manufacturer of your graphics card and use their drivers, do not use the NVIDIA drivers.
If you cannot get them you will have to search around, I know other folk who have had problems with this set of drivers too.
in the control panel try removing the video card completly under the device listing, or set it to standard vga and reboot.
If you remove it from the device list it will redetect it on boot up and should give you an opportunity to either use the xp drivers or chose your own. If you have drivers that you were using before and they worked use them again. www.nvidia.com has most all of the different versions of their drivers, if you have the newest and they dont work, go back to a previous set. I think I am using 43.something… 
If you instead set it to vga then after rebooting with the standard vga driver reinstall the nvidia ones.
(use the setup file in your nvidia folder if there is one before you do anything else if you didnt already try installing them that way)
THAT’S WHAT I AM DOING. They worked before. They’re not now. Oh, sure, it may WORK on XP, but it is not working PROPERLY. My screen refresh rate is horrible. Scrolling is a nightmare.
I have tried installing them both from the nvidia setup files, and uninstalling it and letting it boot up, and both by choosing XP drivers, and my NVIDIA drivers. It’ll work once, then when I turn it back on, I’m back where I started. I can roll back my drivers and it works for a while, but then it screws up again.
I believe that one of this board’s rules is that we should not post directly to other message boards. So I will only say that you can check the boards at hardwareanalysis.com for a similar discussion. One of the posters there suggested that the problems with the 440MXSE appear to spawn when using two or more sticks of RAM from different manufacturers.
I have no idea in the world why a video card should find itself incompatible with disparate RAM manufacturers, but there you are. Are you running dual sticks of RAM? Try yanking one (or all but one) and see if the problem persists.
Wait! One possible solution occurs to me. Many motherboard BIOSes offer you the chance to enable dual channel RAM, which provides a small performance increase (it’s all about small performance increases these days). If you have unmatched RAM, try turning off dual channel mode in your BIOS if it is currently enabled.
And, not to sound like a fanboy here, but ATI has for the moment far eclipsed NVIDIA in the low-to-midrange graphics card department, if you ask me. My 9600 Pro was a steal last year at under $200 and only recently choked on the Far Cry demo. I bought it as a midrange placeholder until Doom 3 came out and, much to my pleasure, it has exceeded all of my expectations until a faulty driver release caused overheating issues (subsequently corrected by ATI) and Far Cry brought it to its knees. It’s now available for as low as $68 on Pricewatch, and it will kick that 440MXSE’s ass.
All NVIDIA products with the MX label have consistently rated as substandard both in performance and occasionally in reliability. If you have a hundred bucks to drop (tax and shipping included) a 9600 Pro is now a great low-level alternative which won’t exactly get you into the now, but it will get you out of the then.