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Gainward BLISS GeForce 7800 GS+ SILENT 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (AGP) - Retail (GX

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I'm having really trouble with this card...

I thought I would upgrade for the last time on a agp motherboard, so for an easy upgrade I bought the Gainward BLISS GeForce 7800 GS+ SILENT 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (AGP) - Retail (GX-032-GW) from overclockers.

I can't get the card to work. I was advised to upgrade the PSU which is fair enough so bought the Tagan TG530-U15 530W ATX2.01 Easycon SLi Compliant Modular Silent PSU (CA-008-TG) again from overclockers.

And it still doesn't work.

The motherboard is Abit AN7 would that cause a problem? the display is a Pioneer XDE436 screen?

Basically what it does is if I use the VGA conncector and turn on the bios and everythign comes up and then loads windows, then freezes about 30 seconds into running the system. next time it reboots there interference on the windows xp loading screen and you can't really see whats happening.

When using the DVI socket going straight into the HDMI input of the plamsa nothign comes up at all when in bios and booting stage and then when windows is finally loaded up boots up the screen, change the res for 1980 x 1020 again freezes about a minute afterwards, once reboot get no image on screen. Have to almost re-sit the card for it to work again.

I've tried in to another computer excatly the same results... and different power supply - which leads to the graphics card being faultly - however went back to overclockers and they returned it saying it worked ok..

So then it seems to be the plasma playing up - but this card I've also got - XFX GeForce 7800 GS Extreme Edition 256MB GDDR3 AGP works fine and runs like a dream.

Anyone got any ideas on what I should do? - sorry for the long post, hope it all makes sense....

Thanks in advance...
 
lil8386 said:
thanks... but it must be something... driving me made...

Any other ideas?

It is something the graphics card is not working correctly.

If it doesn't work in your PC and it doesn't work in another PC then the card is faulty and needs RMAing.

Web note OcUK and tell them the situation.
 
Have you tried a clean Windows installation, I had similar problems in all that I got when booting up was a blank screen, a clean installation later though and it runs like a dream.
 
I've spoken to a techie guy at overclockers... very helpful I have to say...

His advise is download the Beta drivers 91.31_forceware_winxp2k_english, which knows about the card, download gainward.net/support tools to give you more settings and thats about it really.

So I'm going to try this tomorrow or friday and hopefully see the results whcih will hopefully be rewarded.

we shall see - thanks for all the comments, I'll let you know how I get on
 
you answered your own question here. you say the cards based on the 7900 series of gpu's. the 7900 series are going down in history as the most failure prone cards ever made, second to the 9800 series but hot on its heels.
 
Just thought I would let readers know, just incase they have the same problem.

I'm going to try a clean install today I've got nlite already and patched!! and al answered :-)
 
I would be interested to see what happens here, as I have this card, returned it to them as there was pixellated images on the screen, but they returned said it was fine after the tests that they performed. Didnt do a clean install of windows at the time tho, and have just bought a new SATA drive as the other one felt like it was on its way out, maybe that was part of why it wasnt working perfectly fine?
 
sounds iffy to me. especially with the high failure rate of the 7900 series of cards. keep a close eye on it.

what i would do is leave ati tool running overnight to really heat things up on the gfx card. if its still running in the morning then there is no chance that your card will break down.
 
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