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Installing Nvidia 7600 GS.

Jericho

Jericho

Jericho

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Hi All,

Firstly hello again, been a long time since my last post!

I have a Nvidia 7600 Geforce GS graphics card that I am trying to install onto my AMD ECS RS485M-M motherboard. For some reason XP (home) will not find my new card. I have tried updating the Chipset drivers after reading a little through the web and the board has integrated ATi 1100 drivers on there. But the new card is still not recognised. I have put the card in and out, in and out etc... and tried running Nvidia drivers but they dont recognise the cards there either.

I have to plug my monitor into the port on the actual motherboard as due to the card not being recognised there is no picture when plugged into the ports on the card.

Help please! lol.

Any help is greatly appreciated and any more info required just ask.

Cheers,
J
 
There should be an option somewhere in the BIOS to switch from your integrated graphics to AGP/PCI-E.
 
Can you disable the onboard video from within the BIOS at all? The fact you can hot-swap the monitor connector makes me think this is probably your problem.

Bah, beaten to it ;)
 
At start up (when the system info comes up with all the drive info etc) press delete repeatedly.
 
Ok guys thanks for the help but it doesnt seem to have worked.

Here's what I did:

Went into BIOS by using Del
Changed the setting marked "Init Display First (PCI Slot)" to PCIEX as I have a PCI Express Card.

Then I also changed PCI/VGA Palette Snoop to enabled as disabled tells the BIOS that onboard VGA cards are present.

Now windows still boots up and tells me a new VGA device has been found but when I try and install the Nvidia drivers Nvidia says I have no hardwear that matches. Also when I plug my monitor cable into the graphics card itself I still get no picture, plug it into the motherboard slot and hey presto we have picture, surely as it's disabled in the bios this should now not work?

**Edit**
I also just checked the System tab in XP and noticed that the Display adapters in Device manager obviously show the yellow exclamation mark as its not working but when I look at the properties of VGA controller it says location "PCI Slot 8 (PCI bus 1, device 5, function 0)". Does this mean that it's not even looking at the PCI EX card?
**Edit**

Now this card worked fine in this very PC a week ago and I have tried it in another and it's fine so I know the card isn't knackered. Any ideas guys as I'm getting pretty frustrated now.

Cheers,
J
 
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What nvidia drivers are you using? The ones from the nvidia website? When I installed the nvidia drivers from the nvidia website it said my card was not compatable (7900GS), so I tried the ones on the CD which came with the card and they installed properly.

If that doesn't work you can manually install the card, go in to control panel, system, hardware tab, device manager, click on the "unknown VGA device" which will be your card, and right click and select update driver, then when it asks what you want to do click on "no not at this time" for the windows update search, then click on "install from a list or specific location" then select the path to where the nvidia drivers extracted themself to when you tried running the .exe (usually C:\NVIDIA) and select "don't search, I will choose the driver to install" and find 7600GS in the list and it click ok and that should work.

Hope this helps.
 
Hi and thanks for your reply,

I tried your suggestion but again no joy. The Nvidia card was not in the list when I went to search for it. The drivers I am trying to use are the ones on the disk that came with the card. But when I try and install them it says that I have no hardware that matches those drivers, i.e. no card.

Im seriously baffled by this.

I removed the ATi drivers using driver cleaner but they are the motherboard drivers (ATi express 1100), is this right or do I need both the motherboard ATi drivers and the Nvidia ones or would that just conflict?

Appreciate all the help guys,
J
 
You dont need the ATi drivers installed, I think you said you have disabled the onboard graphics in the bios? I take it your monitor is plugged in to the 7600GS?

if you untick the "show compatible hardware" box on the manual driver select, does it show it in the list then? Pic:

updatedriver.JPG


<edit> it will say that it might not run properly or something like that, just click ok/accept and it will still work fine - I did it on my 7900GS untill I decided to use the drivers on the CD which worked fine :S
 
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Hey Fobose,

No my monitor is not plugged into the 7600 as I do not get a picture at all that way. I have defintely disabled the onboard graphs in the bios (i think) as per my previous post.

I also unticked the "compatible hardware" box when finding drivers but there are no Nvidia cards listed at all on there which to me is really strange, only ATi and MSi stuff. Also it does not list any non digitally assigned hardware where as your image shows non digitally assigned hardware drivers as well as assigned ones?

Cheers again and here's hoping for a solution :p

J
 
Okay then perhaps something is wrong with your graphics card. You dont need the drivers to be able to get a picture on your monitor, so perhaps either your graphics card is faulty or its not seated in its slot properly.

It might be only showing the ATi drivers because you haven't actually disabled the onboard graphics and that is what is showing as an "unknown VGA device" in control panel. Try reseating the card again, you should not be able to see any of the contacts (the shiny gold bits on the bottom of the card) once its placed in the slot.
 
Ok Ive reseated the card and made sure its fully seated properly (it looked like it was before anyway) and still nothing.

Could it be a problem with XP? I don't have much data on there so a reinstall of XP wouldn't be a problem but is it worth the time and hassle?

Cheers,
J
 
Nope, it's hasn't got a connection on there at all for any additional power supply's. If it helps it's a 3DFuzion 7600 GS bought from here!! lol. There are no power connectors on there, only additional connection is the SLi at the side/top.

Cheers,
J
 
Bugger!

Would a reinstall of XP have any effect at all before I return the card? Don't fancy waiting weeks to get a replacement :(

Cheers,
J
 
Jericho said:
Could it be a problem with XP?
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I wouldn't have thought so because even without an OS installed you should see lots of info on the screen and see an option to go in to the bios. I really dont know what else to suggest now. Have you got another graphics card you could try?
 
Not doing anything different. I think Ive seen the light and realised that the card is fubard. I'm gonna bite the bullet and send it back to Overclockers as it's only 5 months old!

Cheers for all your help guys.
J
 
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