Yeah, I know - should go on an nVidia forum, but I figured that at least one of you guys would have seen this somewhere before (since some of you collect more than just 3Dfx cards)

My Uncle has an older AthlonXP based PC with the following specs...

Mainboard: Soltek SL-75FRN2-RL
http://www.ocinside.de/go_e.html?/html/results/mainboard_soltek_sl75frn2rl.html

CPU AthlonXP 3200+

RAM 2GB DDR1

2xWestern Digital 200GB HDD SATA

Creative SB Audidgy 2

Yamaha SW1000XG

650W Corsair PSU

NEC DVD-RW

Pioneer DVD-RW

Until recently he was running an ATI 9500 128MB agp 8x graphics card...but this got the "black squares" problem denoting slow GPU death...

eBay came to the rescue in the form of a BFG 7800GS OC 256MB agp 8x card.

Everything installed and worked great!

I was running classic D3D games at MAX settings (F.E.A.R. for instance).

Then I tried OpenGL games...ALL of them CTD with the following APPCRASH error related to nvoglv32.dll:

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s318/paulpsomiadis/7800-gs-ogl-error_zpsc4fd936d.jpg

The final working forceware version is 301.42 and ALL Direct 3D games work flawlessly!

OpenGL things just refuse to load...

I've tried rolling back drivers one at a time right back to 296.10...all of them do the same - D3D works, OpenGL doesn't!

If anyone has seen this before and knows what might fix it, give me a URL to point me to a possible fix...

Cheers lads!

So - here I am posting my own solution...

Turns out my Uncles mainboard was also going the distance as well...

The Geforce card was tested in another board and worked flawlessly.

After rummaging through my parts box I found an old P4 mainboard with a PCIE graphics slot and an old ATI FireGL V3100 which fitted my Uncles tower case...

(there was another board with AGP, but that didn't fit)

So he now has a working computer...although we found out one of his western digital HDDs is failing too...

(caution on crystal disc info)

I guess all hardware eventually has to go to the junkyard in the sky!