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This device cannot start. (Code 10)

Skittle

Skittle

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Right, I'm at wits end here. I built a brand new machine from the following components:
  • Gigabyte GA_P35_DQ6 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
  • Seasonic M12 Modular 700W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply
  • Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 "LGA775 Conroe" 3.00GHz (1333FSB) - Retail
  • Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AA1065)
  • BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC2 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

The graphics card did work for a time and I went and changed the drivers. Now no matter what I do I can't get the card to start in a proper mode, max resolution is 1280 x 1024 and the NVidia Control Panel wont start. The XP Device manager has an exclamation mark beside the graphics card and all the error message says is "This device cannot start. (Code 10)". I have tried the drivers that came with the card, v162.18 from the Nvidia website and 162.50 from the NVidia website. All to no avail. Whenever I switch drivers I do it properly and use DriveCleaner Pro in safe mode to remove any reminents before I install the new versions.

Any ideas or should I RMA the card (is it even the cards problem?)

Skittle
 
The times I've had that issue is with a driver that is not being removed by the uninstaller and it's causing major grief with different driver revisions. Have you booted into safe mode and ran a driver cleaner a couple of times to make sure that every piece of the original driver is gone before installing a new one?
 
I get this trouble with the onboard video on my motherboard.

Last time I just had to put up with it. Nothing would make the bloody driver work - I used the full version of Drivercleaner several times, checked connections, everything.

Do you have another card you could try?
 
In reply to flibby, as I originally stated, I use drivercleaner in Safe mode to remove all traces of previous drivers.

In reply to Tute, I have an old ATI 1650XT that I suppose I could try. But if I do that I'll be switching two things, the driver set and the card. Ideally I'd like to be switching just the card and keep the NVidia drivers I currently have. I don't know anyone with an NVidia card that I could borrow...

Skittle.
 
It could be an IRQ conflict, have you tried it with only the gfx card and everything else disabled.. sound,network card etc. Also see if there is an option to assign an irq for the gfx in the bios and try turning that on and off.

I had the exact same problem when i got a second 7800gtx and was trying to setup SLI. It turned out to be a problem with the second slot conflicting with my sound card. Once i found what the problem was i was able to manually assign IRQ's in the bios and all was well.
 
AtreuS said:
It could be an IRQ conflict, have you tried it with only the gfx card and everything else disabled.. sound,network card etc. Also see if there is an option to assign an irq for the gfx in the bios and try turning that on and off.

I had the exact same problem when i got a second 7800gtx and was trying to setup SLI. It turned out to be a problem with the second slot conflicting with my sound card. Once i found what the problem was i was able to manually assign IRQ's in the bios and all was well.
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IRQ conflict was the first thing I thought about as well.
 
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