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Help needed with 7600GT :( please thanks

OutOfFaze

OutOfFaze

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Hi.

Following on from my thread a wee while ago I decided to buy a Leadtek 7600GTas my old card went kaput.

So I decided to start afresh with a window reinstall. However, I have come across a major problem. Every time I try to install the drivers, the installation crashes and I'm left with part installed drivers. Thus far, I've tried the drivers on the disc, and also a set of 91.47 drivers from the nVidia site.

After this process I can increase the resolution to a useable level, but simple 2d stuff like scrolling through a webpage is done at (literally) 1fps.

There's obviously a major problem somewhere, but I have really not got a clue where.

I've got:

AMD 64 3000
Maxtor DiamondBack 200Gb SATA
ASRock K8Upgrade

Can anyone help?

Very much obliged.
 
Thanks for the reply.

By disabling onboard devices, I think you mean the onboard audio? What else is included in that. The LAN? Apologies, I'm never really in the BIOS.

Also, there is a modem in one of the PCI slots. Obviously there was no problem with the ATi card I had before, but is it worth removing it just in case?

I should maybe add that it is the AGP version of the card.

I'll get all the drivers off tomorrow morning before I start tinkering again.

Thanks again.
 
Thanks for all the replies guys.

I've removed the modem, switched off the onboard audio and LAN, cleaned out every single driver, reinstalled in the order above... and still! Every time... installation of the drivers fails half way through.

The screen just goes blank, pauses for a while, then the computer restarts.

I'm completely stumped :(

It wouldn't be faulty hardware surely?
 
Ok, some developments.

I tried installing the drivers on the CD in safe mode. Instead of crashing, I got a message saying something vaguely along the lines of "May not be Leadtek hardware", which is obviously false. So, I wiped those drivers off with DC, started in safe mode again, and tried to install the 91.47 Forceware drivers I got from the nVidia site. This time, they installed properly, prompted me to restart.

Now however, the computer crashes when loading the 'light blue signing in screen'. So I started in safe mode, disabled the GC, restarted into Normal Windows and it loaded properly. I then enabled the card again, which it did with no problems. However, I tried to change the resolution to 1280x1024... it crashed.

Obviously, there is still something wrong, despite the drivers going on properly (apparently).

Any ideas?
 
Just reinstalled Windows. Same problem.

Contacted Leadtek Europe. Not had a reply yet, which is unsurprising being a Friday night after all. Plus, they're in Holland so they're probably all stoned. I know I would be :)

If they can find a way for me to confirm it is a hardware fault, I'll contact OcUK then. Don't fancy sending it back and getting charged £10 because it isn't a hardware fault.

Anyway. Thanks for all the help guys. You shall be forever remembered in books and songs.

Oh, and have a good weekend ;)
 
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I definitely have the AGP driver installed. I installed the CPU driver and the AGP driver, then tried the Graphic Card drivers.

I'm kind of confused how to update the BIOS:

1. Create a bootable system floppy disk.

2. Download an updated ASRock BIOS file (WinZip format with .zip file extension) from the web site, unzip the BIOS file and save both ASRFLASH.EXE utility and BIOS file to the disk you created in step 1.

I make a system floppy by right-clicking on a:\ in My Computer, then selecting Format and checking the 'Create an MS-DOS startup disk' box. Right? Then where do I copy the files to? Just straight onto the floppy disk?

I really don't want to screw up my Motherboard ;)
 
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Apologies about the swear word, I'm used to boards where I can swear you see :o

Updated the BIOS succesfully :cool:

No joy with the card though.
 
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