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8800gtx driver issues

ljt said:
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?
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No, I can take back faulty things back, but origanally the man from the place i got it from said I could take it all back even it wasn't faulty within 7 days, turns out he's mislead me and I can't.

yep you're right on those two point. I've done both of those.

I've just tryed to install xp pro, and it all worked fine untill, after I tryed to rebooted into windows after installing the gfx card drivers. It wouldn't load windows though because it said a file had become corrupted.
 
Its either the volts for something are wrong. Most likely the northbridge or memory. Or dodgy ram.
What volts do you have on the nb, sb and vcore or are they all on auto?
What was your spec again?
 
modo77 said:
Its either the volts for something are wrong. Most likely the northbridge or memory. Or dodgy ram.
What volts do you have on the nb, sb and vcore or are they all on auto?
What was your spec again?
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there all on auto, except ram is on 1.9v.


spec's are as follows:

q6600 g0
gigabye p35-ds3r
corsair xms2 2gb pc5400 4-4-4-12
corsair hx520
akasa zen
WD 3200AAKS
Lite-on dvd-rw
OEM nvidia 8800GTX
 
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.
 
I don't now whether you tried this already or not, but my brother had the same issue with his PC last week. it was fixed by using a new SATA able. afaik the error on the bsods was the same. Also try using a new sata port on the mobo. IF you have a spare sata power cable use that also, hope this helps

- Pea0n
 
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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.
 
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?
 
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.
 
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.
 
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 would personally yes, because the blend test on Prime, wont narrow down to either CPU/Ram etc

where as memtest will only test your RAM and look for errors with your RAM.
 
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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