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Nvidia xfxforce 7600GT

Jay Clericus

Jay Clericus

Jay Clericus

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Hi

Current setup is
Athlon 2500 Barton Core
VIA K7VT4APro mobo
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro 8xAGP 128 MB card
160 GB IDE boot drive
120 GB IDE data drive
2x SATA 160GB data drives (not raid)
DVD burner, DVD reader
6 case fans
500 or 650 W PSU

On the basis of comments here and in other forums, upgraded ? to the above card, I ran 3DMark 2005 on the radeon and got 1072 points and 1822 on the 7600GT.

Entered the serial number on the xfxforce site and got the latest driver
GF 7600GT 560M 256MB DDR3 DUAL DVI TV
PV-T73A-UDF7
Windows XP/MCE/2K International WHQL

Ran setup and got the one message did not want to see
“The NVIDIA setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit.”

Ran the add new hardware with the driver on the CD as supplied with the card, games played worse and any attempt to play DVD's or avi / mpg files would initially slow down so I could watch the frames and then freeze and crash the PC.

Running latest windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600

It is from a competitor as the last time I used overclockers, the couriers ignored my request to deliver it when I knew I would be at home and tried to deliver it when I knew I would not be at home, then I had to drive to the other side of milton keynes, ie a good 90 mins each way but weekdays only :(

The card seems dead to me, requested RMA from the company...

Bios ram aperture was changed to 256 MB ram as that is what the card is, if anyone has got any ideas, possibly an alternative driver, would be open to ideas ?

PC was recently defluffed and all the obvious to me things were checked, no reply from manufacturer either :confused: :confused: :confused:

On another point, is there any way to change registered email address as there is no email account with the current ISP and am using webmail. Looking to get own domain and website sometime next year
 
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Install the latest drivers from www.nvidia.com and try again. Ensure that the graphics card is properly seated in its slot, and that nothing else has become dislodged in its installation.

If all that fails, RMA the card back to the company you bought it from.
 
Jay,

I bought a XFX 7600GT and had exactly the same problems as you. Applications freezing, slow frame rate, unable to do pretty much everything that relied on the card.I downloaded the latest NVidia drivers and contacted XFX Helpdesk, tried their advice, changed the AGP appature to 256MB, disabled AGP fast writes etc - nothing worked. I bought a new power supply, still no luck.

See my thread below...

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17656173&highlight=moores28

I thought the issue was the card and requested an RMA and in a mad attack of last chance attempt, I spent the weekend burning everything on the hard drive to DVD, wiped the drive and reinstalled Windows XP from scratch, then loaded the latest drivers from Nvidia website. Blow me down - the card has worked perfectly ever since with no issue whatsoever. So I would suggest that you try this before sending back the card on RMA.

Let us know how you get on

Cheers,
moores28
 
Went to Nividia website and all I can get for drivers are:-
geforce and TNT2
geforce 8800 series
geforce Go 7 series - assume this is the mobile version
quadro
riva 128/128ZX

Since I have a XFX 7600GT figured the 7 series, but that is for mobile cards or am i mistaken ?
Since you have have it working, what driver are you using for the card ?
Bios currently set at 128 MB aperture as that is what I thought it should be, but the current card works fine at that rate, whilst the 7600GT does not :(

Just changed the defragger and it reports 39% fragged and this on the boot drive :( - changed from sp1 to sp2 and then used restore point to drop to SP1 and then back to sp2 when nothing happened - quicker than downloading the lot, I could format the boot drive but this time make a boot partition

afk for a few days, back on thursday, would appreciate a driver name and location posted here, don't bother with email it has it's own issues :(

What was the advice that XFX tech support gave you, got enough knowledge to not chose everything they recommended :)

Jay
 
You have a geforce card. That's the first option there. Download the latest XP drivers. Can't readily remember what number they are 9x.28 with the x being unknown.

You could try using Driver Cleaner to remove all nvidia related drivers then restart the computer. XP should see the new hardware and install some basic VGA drivers. once it's done this then install the latest drivers from nvidias website.
 
Jay Clericus said:
Went to Nividia website and all I can get for drivers are:-
geforce and TNT2
geforce 8800 series
geforce Go 7 series - assume this is the mobile version
quadro
riva 128/128ZX

Since I have a XFX 7600GT figured the 7 series, but that is for mobile cards or am i mistaken ?
Since you have have it working, what driver are you using for the card ?
Bios currently set at 128 MB aperture as that is what I thought it should be, but the current card works fine at that rate, whilst the 7600GT does not :(

Just changed the defragger and it reports 39% fragged and this on the boot drive :( - changed from sp1 to sp2 and then used restore point to drop to SP1 and then back to sp2 when nothing happened - quicker than downloading the lot, I could format the boot drive but this time make a boot partition

afk for a few days, back on thursday, would appreciate a driver name and location posted here, don't bother with email it has it's own issues :(

What was the advice that XFX tech support gave you, got enough knowledge to not chose everything they recommended :)

Jay
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The driver I'm using is the latest one on the Nvidia website (93.71) under Geforce and TNT2 - Go 7 series is something else.

XFX Helpdesk told me:

"This may be caused by a few factors. First ensure that mainboard drivers/chipset drivers are fully updated, uncheck ‘allow hardware video overlay’ (in the relevant media player settings). Then go into Advanced Display Properties: Geforce settings: Colour Correction: Apply colour changes to: All. Please lower the hardware acceleration in Control Panel-Display-Settings-Advanced-Troubleshoot. Also try setting your AGP aperture size to 256Mb"

Good luck, I wiped the whole drive and started again - I think the issue was with Direct X / driver conflict for me. I had an ATI card before and used Driver Cleaner but still had issues until I wiped the drive.
 
cheers for the reply, may well wipe the drive but will try the remove ati software first and see if that works, if not been backing up c onto the other drives atm and then do a final dvd backup :)

guess it is one way to dump the pap that builds up :)
 
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