i bought a geforce 4, and dl'd the drivers, pluged in the vid card turned my comp back on and the keyboard was dead and the monitor wouldnt show anything at all
and im ver confused as to what to do. Currently im using onbaord vid and im not shure what to do to make my new vid card work, any help is welcome.

You should probably call nVidia tech support.

Jamming an AGP card into a PCI socket is never a good idea.

Seriously though, check to make sure that your memory is seated completely, and that your card is plugged in all the way.

I may be a moron but im not stupid ;) i checked several times fyre dosent seem to help me one bit

Go back to the store where you bought it and complain and get a new one.

blaze thats the problem i bought it from a freind....

although i managed to make some progress...using the new vid card i can get to the point where windows goes to show the profile you cna load from then the monitor dies

I would ditch the Geforce 4. Its extremley outdated now. A newer okish card will cost you only about  $40(£25). I just bought a ATI Saphire x700 256mb car today for about $170(£100). It was given good reviews in magazines.

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I would ditch the Geforce 4. Its extremley outdated now. A newer okish card will cost you only about  $40(£25). I just bought a ATI Saphire x700 256mb car today for about $170(£100). It was given good reviews in magazines.
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Maybe outdated, but not underrated.

I have the GForce 6800 and it kicks a** for what i need it for.

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I would ditch the Geforce 4. Its extremley outdated now. A newer okish card will cost you only about  $40(£25). I just bought a ATI Saphire x700 256mb car today for about $170(£100). It was given good reviews in magazines.
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Maybe outdated, but not underrated.

I have the GForce 6800 and it kicks a** for what i need it for.
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The 6800 is a very good card. Its very new and extremley powerful and rates high. But most new games need a newer card to function proerley which is why im upgrading from the ATI Radeon 9200SE to the Radeon x700.

Just downloaded the moded Drivers and i get a ping of 10 from a server in California. ON THE OTHER COAST.

Try uninstalling the onboard video from the device manager.  Uninstall the nvidia drivers if you have them installed.  Power down computer and put in the video card.  Boot up and it should recognize both the video card and onboard video as new devices, just skip the onboard video and install the nvidia drivers for the card when it asks you.

I found that if you used the XP Drivers, their really outdated and that cause me to hvae no video too so i did exactly what weas stated above but i used the drivers on the Disc and they worked fine

well i got it to work....had to go into safemode then install the drivers and reboot, works fine after that cept if i want it to work i have to go into safemode and do it everytime....someone said i have to emove my onbaord from cmos....but i dont know what im doing in there

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Just downloaded the moded Drivers and i get a ping of 10 from a server in California. ON THE OTHER COAST.
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Maybe I should ditch my broadband and go to dialup, and use the money I save to buy a new video card since they seem to help so much with internet latency.

I suppose it could help slightley as your computer would be having less strugle to handle the movement so faster response time.