Nvidia Driver [Fails]

hey guys

The card in question is a GF4 MX440.

I installed the nvidia drivers through automatix, and it failed… after reboot the screen turned grey and flashed with black lines (had to restore a xorg.conf backup).

i then tried installing the drivers with apt, which had the same effect (only this time i edited the xorg.conf file to say vesa [i had changed it to nvidia]).

any idea’s why this fails?

ubuntu Edgy, automatix2.

thnx, impy

EDIT: windows 2000 is having problems too, the screen goes blank (no signal) when i run diablo 2 or eve online…