8800gtx driver issues

muggs · 1 Oct 2007 at 19:19

yantorsen said:
this has just come up...

that screen sounds like a memory issue. i had that when installed vista right at the end of installation on my old agp system. i had 4 sticks of ram took two out then it installed fine then put them back in again. theres been talk about raising mem voltage dnt know if you have but if you havent try that first

yantorsen · 2 Oct 2007 at 21:35

I've set the ram to 1.9v, and it seems to have stopped crashing, and is generally more stable.

I installed vista again with no problems. But I installed the mobo drivers, and now it wont boot into windows. Could it be becasue the mobo drivers supplied (on the CD) are 32-bit, and they need to be 64-bit?

Yantorsen.

modo77 · 2 Oct 2007 at 21:58

Excellent

Hope it stays stable. Yes you need 64bit drivers

yantorsen · 2 Oct 2007 at 22:12

yep, cheers for everything mate.

I've just reformatted the hdd again and reinstalled vista becasue I coudn't get into it after i installed those mobo drivers. Hopefully it will be fine.

One quick question. my vista experience index score is 1, because of the gfx card even after refreshed. is this just because I havn't downloaded the drivers for the gpu yet?

modo77 · 2 Oct 2007 at 22:57

Yes once you update your drivers it will be sorted. Just click the refresh button again. Once you get the right score aero will turn on.

yantorsen · 3 Oct 2007 at 00:36

havin problems again, I had to reinstall vista becasue I'd cocked up the other one when i tryed to put 32-bit mobo drivers on it. And it keeps havinbg errors and cancelling the installation.

modo77 · 3 Oct 2007 at 01:04

What are the errors? Have you reformatted the drive?
edit: Oh and maybe its still the volts that are not right. Did you give memtest/orthos a go?

muggs · 3 Oct 2007 at 02:34

yantorsen said:
havin problems again, I had to reinstall vista becasue I'd cocked up the other one when i tryed to put 32-bit mobo drivers on it. And it keeps havinbg errors and cancelling the installation.

need to explain the problems dude or are they the same as before?

yantorsen · 3 Oct 2007 at 17:50

well essentially causing the same issues, except it's a different error code, but I can't remember the error code.

do u think it's a software issue, or a hardware issue, becasue I can take everything back before tomorow, appart from the case and psu.

yantorsen · 3 Oct 2007 at 18:21

ahh I've just found another problem. IT seems that when I install the mobo drivers, it resests the mem volstage, and consiquently crashes!

ljt · 3 Oct 2007 at 20:01

eh?? installed the mobo drivers shouldnt reset the voltage, the memory voltage is locked to whatever you set it to in the BIOS...

How did you come to the conclusion that it changed your RAM voltage?

Do you "Save and Exit" after you've changed the voltage in the BIOS?

muggs · 3 Oct 2007 at 22:22

have you got the best/most stable bios for your board?

yantorsen · 3 Oct 2007 at 22:36

yeah, i hadn;'t saved the bios, thts sorted.

but i can't get into windows now it just hangs on the black screen before it everytime. and it keeps doing that thing when I'm in windows where it closes down IE and stuff (I posted a screenie earier).

I think I'm gonna take all the stuff back, and buy a pre-made, It causing me to much grief.

muggs · 3 Oct 2007 at 23:36

well now you sorted the mem voltage out give it one last format, maybe your earlier installs were corrupt because mem not getting enough voltage.

modo77 · 3 Oct 2007 at 23:42

yantorsen said:
yeah, i hadn;'t saved the bios, thts sorted.

but i can't get into windows now it just hangs on the black screen before it everytime. and it keeps doing that thing when I'm in windows where it closes down IE and stuff (I posted a screenie earier).

I think I'm gonna take all the stuff back, and buy a pre-made, It causing me to much grief.

You have had a lot of hassle

One thing though had you set the voltage right (and saved it) before you installed vista? If not then i'd give it one last install.

yantorsen · 3 Oct 2007 at 23:55

Yep I've tryed it about 5 times, and I've tried putting memory in different slots etc... but no luck..

Oh well nevermind guys. THanks for all your time and help over the last few days. I'm hoping to find somewhere that will build me a custom system, with my exsisting psu and case as I'm unable to return those.

Thanks again, take care.

hohum · 4 Oct 2007 at 00:45

Memtest, memtest, memtest... that's all I can say. All your issues seem to point to duff RAM.

yantorsen · 4 Oct 2007 at 18:06

I've just found out I can't take my parts back, So I'm gonna have to make do.

muggs · 4 Oct 2007 at 18:29

yantorsen said:
I've just found out I can't take my parts back, So I'm gonna have to make do.

ok do some memtest like ppl are saying, then if you have a faulty stick you can take that back. dnt worry you got all of us

ljt · 4 Oct 2007 at 19:24

yantorsen said:
I've just found out I can't take my parts back, So I'm gonna have to make do.

what???? if something is faulty then they cant refuse to be honest.

So let me get this right....

You have now;

> Set the memory voltage in the BIOS to 1.9 and saved it..

> Since saving the voltage, you've formatted the HDD and tried to re-install vista?