I've just rebuild most of my PC including MB, CPU, RAM, HDD's and drives. I kept the case and PSU along with the graphics card as I'm waiting to see what is about to come out or current stuff drop in price. Stuff listed in signature.
Got everything running OK last weekend using onboard graphics and sorted a few little driver issues out etc. A mate and I tried the 6800GT last weekend and got black screen and it wouldn't let us install the NVIDIA drivers without the card being plugged in, if you did plug it in you had no display, going around in circles.
I sorted out a few things yesterday and decided I'd try again. Put the card into the top PCI slot which the manual says to use for a single card, installed the drivers, restarted the PC and immediately noticed it was running much much slower. Desktop loaded, IE9 32bit did but very slow, IE9 64bit wouldn't load properly. I got systray OK and top toolbars etc but the main middle section was just a black screen. It opened Word and Excel and displayed those OK. So, have I not done something in a setting up somewhere, is the card faulty or any other ideas?
In my old PC I was having a few problems with it running slow or IE not responding, thought it was down to being 6 years old, XP Pro and HDD on the way out and full of crap. Seems the problems might have been all caused by the graphics card? Any ideas?
I'll see if I can borrow a graphics card off someone to try but will stick with onboard until I get a brand new card and then start to use it properly.
Got everything running OK last weekend using onboard graphics and sorted a few little driver issues out etc. A mate and I tried the 6800GT last weekend and got black screen and it wouldn't let us install the NVIDIA drivers without the card being plugged in, if you did plug it in you had no display, going around in circles.
I sorted out a few things yesterday and decided I'd try again. Put the card into the top PCI slot which the manual says to use for a single card, installed the drivers, restarted the PC and immediately noticed it was running much much slower. Desktop loaded, IE9 32bit did but very slow, IE9 64bit wouldn't load properly. I got systray OK and top toolbars etc but the main middle section was just a black screen. It opened Word and Excel and displayed those OK. So, have I not done something in a setting up somewhere, is the card faulty or any other ideas?
In my old PC I was having a few problems with it running slow or IE not responding, thought it was down to being 6 years old, XP Pro and HDD on the way out and full of crap. Seems the problems might have been all caused by the graphics card? Any ideas?
I'll see if I can borrow a graphics card off someone to try but will stick with onboard until I get a brand new card and then start to use it properly.
Last edited: