I have some experience with adding or changing hardware on a machine running NT4 w/ SP5 and the one thing I can say is it sucks. I have experienced what you are describing, but not with a G400MAX. My advice to you is this:
1) Uninstall and delete everything that has to do with Matrox drivers. I think the Matrox site has instructions on how to do this, but I am not sure.
2) Reinstall SP5.
3) Reinstall Matrox drivers.
I got the same video distortion and such when I traded out a video card on an NT machine that had SP5 loaded. I have not noticed this problem in SP4 or lower. I have learned that one of the joys of dealing with Microsoft is installing patches that mess everything up. One quick tip for any future installs of NT4: install SP5 or later before installing any drivers (beyond network, which is a necessity if you are installing to a machine on an NT domain). I haven't had any problems with drivers working since I discovered this. Prize this piece of information, because it was the result of countless hours of frustration.
Hope that works - I sincerely apologize if you have to redownload SP5 and it doesn't work.
Jon
1) Uninstall and delete everything that has to do with Matrox drivers. I think the Matrox site has instructions on how to do this, but I am not sure.
2) Reinstall SP5.
3) Reinstall Matrox drivers.
I got the same video distortion and such when I traded out a video card on an NT machine that had SP5 loaded. I have not noticed this problem in SP4 or lower. I have learned that one of the joys of dealing with Microsoft is installing patches that mess everything up. One quick tip for any future installs of NT4: install SP5 or later before installing any drivers (beyond network, which is a necessity if you are installing to a machine on an NT domain). I haven't had any problems with drivers working since I discovered this. Prize this piece of information, because it was the result of countless hours of frustration.
Hope that works - I sincerely apologize if you have to redownload SP5 and it doesn't work.
Jon
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