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Whats the pci device that the 3870 wants to intall?

Phil2008

Phil2008

Phil2008

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Got my 3870 card this morning, opened it and its only a single slot card and its blue,, I thought all sapphire cards were red and were a double slot card?

Anyway installed the card and put the 7.12s drivers on, but afer it restarts xp it wants to install a pci device, but it cant find the drivers for, Its installed the main drivers fine but whats this pci device that it tries to install guys? Also when xp reboots, the white "welcome" is light brown?
 
it will most likelly be the HDMI sound, the text colour is a bug in the driver, it only does it sometimes, i dont worry about it with mine, aslong as i can read it
 
the bold writing is brown look.......thats normal is it??

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Same problem on a new install, a multi media device that only installed after the latest ATI drivers were put on and the text is now brown.
 
had an sim. issue with some on board sound b4.

when looking for the drivers, try first usig the microsoft internet/on line search (search the web??), until it found the basic hardewaremyon board sound wouln'y install.

Not saying thats causing the text issue but dirvers can be funny
 
So is there any fix to get the brown text back to normal?? I havent bothered installing the sound drivers, cos I'll doubt I will ever use the onboard sound
 
Ah, I've got the text problem too, must be driver related then. Did you install your drivers straight over an old batch or as new?

My symptoms are identical to yours. I'm just not worrying about them for now, so long as it gets fixed at some point I don't mind.
 
Darg said:
Ah, I've got the text problem too, must be driver related then. Did you install your drivers straight over an old batch or as new?

My symptoms are identical to yours. I'm just not worrying about them for now, so long as it gets fixed at some point I don't mind.
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I uninstalled 7.10 then put the 3870 card in and installed 8.1 drivers
 
Yeah there is a fix for the text problem.

Left Click (desktop) > properties > appearance tab > effects > Cleartype (change it from the default standard, looks better imo anyway esp on LCD's)

Andy
 
Ive unchecked it, so its still on standard im guessing, but without the brown text. Zone Alarm text is still brown tho, but I can put up with that. thanks very much the akirru, I would have never figgered that out if you hadnt of told me
 
speedy2004 said:
Got my 3870 card this morning, opened it and its only a single slot card and its blue,, I thought all sapphire cards were red and were a double slot card?
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I have seen that sapphire are doing a single slot solution. It utilises a "vapour chamber" which works very much like heat pipes only much better aparantly. It is said to work much better than the standard duel slot solution too. I'm not sure if this is the version that you have but if your thinking of running a crossfireX setup with 4 cards i think they would be very handy.

what are your temps like anyway and whats the fan noise like in 2D and 3D?
 
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