Vista 64 and 9800GT issue

[TrevP]

Vista 64 and 9800GT issue *RESOLVED*

I've just built a new Vista-64 Home premium PC. Q6600, 4Gb Patriot PC6400 (4,4,4,12), Gigabyte Ga-EP43-S3L mobo, Zotac 9800GT, 460W Power supply, One 250Gb SATA drive WD, and a couple of legacy IDE DVD drives and a legacy Belkin wireless PCI card. Stock clockspeeds for now. Temps fine.

Install went fine but the graphics are dog slow. 3DMark06 of 283 thats right, less than 1 FPS.

Examining the error log shows multiple Event 14 nvlddmkm errors. display drivers removed and re-installed version 180.48. Cleaned install in safe mode.

The thing is that when I counted the errors, there were 60/second. That got me thinking, so I changed the display refresh rate to 72Hz and guess what? there are now 72 errors/second. Anyone able to shed some light on this at all?

 

[TrevP]

Just to add, I did a full reinstall overnight in the following order:

OS
chipset drivers
audio drivers
graphics drivers

checking the event log at each stage. after the graphics drivers were installed, the event 14 errors reappeared.

 

[GhostlyPea]

Make sure any additional power connectors are attached to the card

Other than that it sounds like this problem people seem to be having
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I havn't read it fully but it sounds like it might be what your getting so I would recommend taking a look

- Pea0n

 

[TrevP]

Thanks for the link. Tried the latest beta 180.84 as opposed to the WHQL 180.48's and that seems to have done the trick. Now for some OCing.