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8800gtx driver issues

modo77 said:
Just looking around, seems a few people having problems with corsair memory and that motherboard.
Also seen that you can only manually set the memory voltage and the vcore on that motherboard. So dont need to worry about changing the chipset voltage.

I would try increasing the mem volts. If you look here http://forums.*****.net/showthread.php?t=104450 The corsair guy advises to increase the mem up to 2.1 However you'd be better just increasing it by the smallest amount (.25v on mine). At some point you'll hopefully hit a stable amount.
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just wanted check something. Is memory "overvoltage" the same as upping the mem voltage?
 
the intel chipset identification utility is saying my mobo is G33?!, why, it should be P35??!?!?!

and btw I ran a Prime95 torture test for an hour with no issues or errors.
 
ljt said:
Well under "system" in my device manager it says something like "Intel G33/G31/P35 Express Chipset"

So i imagine they are all the same.

Are you still downloading on your other PC, burning the drivers to disc, then instaling on your new PC???

If so, could it be something as simple as either;

Dodgey CD-R/Ws?
Dodgey CD-RW drive?
Your new DVD/CD drive is kaputt and isnt reading them correctly?

Is there no way you can get an RJ-45 network lead from your router to your new PC, so you have a direct connection to the internet on your new PC?
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no, I have the internet on my new pc now. I'm using an Abit pci-e wireless adapter airpace card. But I can't any motherboard drivers to work.
 
ljt said:
ok, right, have you run memtest86 yet?

We have to go through testing each component until we find the culprit.

If you havent tried memtest, you get it from the following;

http://www.memtest86.com/memtest86-3.3.iso.zip

unzip the first iso file to your desktop, and use nero, or whatever you use to burn discs, to burn the iso, which will create a bootable CD.

Once this is done, shut down the PC, go into the BIOS, change the first boot device to your CD/DVD-rom

Put the memtest CD in and restart, it should then load up from the CD, and produce a blue screen, and automatically run the tests. This will take a while to run, so leave it until atleast the top right status bar shows 100%

If you encounter any errors (these will show up in the bottom half of the screen) then take 1 stick of RAM out, and try with just one, if that doesnt show any errors, then try the other stick, until you've tested both on their own.
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I've ran Prime95 torture test "blend" for an hour, do I still need to run memtest aswell?
 
I seem to have got the gfx card drivers working , but still not the mobo drivers. No idea how I did it though tbh.

But when I play medieval total war i get this error....

and it only let's me play in windowed mode....

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nothing, it just checks if there's anything to boot from on the cd drive, then fins theres nothing and boots from the hdd.

I'm sposed to be putting the .iso file on the Cd right?
 
sid said:
Use nero

Select burn from image

then select the iso as the source,

It will then go straight to burn screen and click burn there, now you have a bootable disc.

sid
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Oh, well I'll have to do when i reinstall windows. My windows install became corrupt.. SO I've had to reformat and start again, and it got too late, so I just reformatted and am gonna install it again tomorow.

Anyone in the Cov area, think they can fix my probs, I'll sort you a tenner lol.
 
bilston said:
lol, just read the whole thread, you dont seem to be having much luck do you?

Just echoing what others have said really, from experience it looks like dodgy ram or not enough volts through the ram. Im not sure what the Gigabyte is like with its voltages but it wouldnt hurt to try putting 2.0volts through the memory just to make sure its still not undervolting.

If the errors are getting less and less (i.e. you can now install some drivers when previously you couldnt) then it looks like more volts might work.

But before that, do run memtest.

Also, you were offering £20 a week ago not a tenner :P
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lol well tbh I would actually give you £50 if you fixed my problems. I'm gonna have another go at running memtest, and failing that, I'm gonna pay someone to come and look at it, but the cheapest guy I know charges £30 an hour, and loads of time would be spent waiting for things to install, so It'd cheaper just to buy a new system almost at that rate.
 
stickroad helped me thorugh the setting up process on msn, and I'm still getting the same kind of errors, strickroad thinks it is a stability/hardware related issue.

ive ran memtest, for 5 and a half hours, no errors. and prime95 blend torture test for about an hour with no errors.

what next?!

Yanto.
 
ran the wd diagnostic test and got the following...

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also thought I'd post a pic of the inside of my case, so you can see if i connected anything wrongly etc.

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thanks guys.

I've just changed the port the sata hdd was plugged into and managed to run the wd test again, and it passed. I've just taken an old dvd rom drom another machine and connected it to my new one, but it's an IDE drive, and I can't get it to go as the 1st boot priority.

yanto
 
ljt said:
that ide dvd rom drive should deffinately be in the boot priority though yanto

whats on the list of bootable drives?

hopefully moving to a different port might have been your problem all along!
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well it is recognising it, but when you go into boot priority on bios, it just has the option of setting the CD drive as the 1st boot priority, but it does not specify which one (sata/ide) and the sata dvd is still connected.
 
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