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Airtrooper Appleby
Black Horizon Industries Beanbag Alliance
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Posted - 2011.09.15 21:02:00 -
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this might not be the place but i know fellow eve players know there systems
i have a older system (3 years old) intel quad core 2.6 gig 3 gig ram was geforce 8600 256mb 450 power supply
the geforce 8600 broke so i went out to buy a new card, got a cheap gigabyte geforce 210 518mb card, the problem i have is that when i put the card in and boot up it boots fine to low res and windows (vista) does its thing and installs a driver, i then run the driver CD and it says i need to reboot, now when i reboot it only goes up to the windows scroll bar thingy just after the bios then just a black screen...
my motherboard does have onboard graphics and thats how im on here now but i cant see anything in the bios to disable on board alough im not a pro so dont really know what to look for but i heard that some boards do it auto..
any help on this would be great as i cant play eve till i get this sorted
Thanks in advance
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Airtrooper Appleby
Black Horizon Industries Beanbag Alliance
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Posted - 2011.09.15 21:54:00 -
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anyone? |
Grey Stormshadow
Starwreck Industries
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Posted - 2011.09.15 23:32:00 -
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Airtrooper Appleby wrote:this might not be the place but i know fellow eve players know there systems
i have a older system (3 years old) intel quad core 2.6 gig 3 gig ram was geforce 8600 256mb 450 power supply
the geforce 8600 broke so i went out to buy a new card, got a cheap gigabyte geforce 210 518mb card, the problem i have is that when i put the card in and boot up it boots fine to low res and windows (vista) does its thing and installs a driver, i then run the driver CD and it says i need to reboot, now when i reboot it only goes up to the windows scroll bar thingy just after the bios then just a black screen...
my motherboard does have onboard graphics and thats how im on here now but i cant see anything in the bios to disable on board alough im not a pro so dont really know what to look for but i heard that some boards do it auto..
any help on this would be great as i cant play eve till i get this sorted
Thanks in advance
Trooper
Couple things... Don't use your driver cd... use the lastest driver available from here. Your onboard graphics card may disable itself when you install addon card, there might be bios option to choose priority for addon card or there might be actual jumper in motherboard to disable on board graphics. Check the motherboards manual. It is mentioned there for sure.
Sidenote: you might wanna update your operating system to windows 7 to gain better overal performance... Vista is... hmm... mistake. Forum fix for firefox and chrome Get working images and colored text Classic forum style 2.25final |
Sphynix
The Embraced Of Eve
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Posted - 2011.09.16 11:33:00 -
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In the BIOS you'll probably want to look for a setting that has a PCIe "primary" setting. It's pretty obscure. Generally the default is to use any card as the first choice.
Grey has pretty much said everything that you need. Only suggestion i can add is that you can also try to do the install in "safe mode". To get there, just start pressing F8 when the BIOS screen is doing it's post - or just before it starts to do the loading screen for windows. This will give you an additional boot menu and one of the options is for safe mode.
Although if you have to install the nvidia drivers in this fashion there is something rather wrong, somewhere.
Oh, you do have all the plugs plugged into the card? (some cards have an additional power input, no idea about yours) |
Airtrooper Appleby
Black Horizon Industries Beanbag Alliance
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Posted - 2011.09.16 14:02:00 -
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ok thanks for the help...
i downloaded the latest drivers from nvidia
switched the system off and put the card back in, booted up and system went in to low res just loke i expected, windows installed a driver and i then went into device manager and updated the driver with the latest one i downloaded, restarted the system and again black screen after splash screens only this time i got a blue screen and system crashed after a few seconds...
i rebooted and tried to start in low res through F8 incase the card is trying to put our a higher resulution then my monitor can handle, again black screen and crash a few seconds after
now to the best of my understanding as the old card was pci and the new card is pci it should be fairly easy to change, they have close to the same specs (256mb old to 518mb new)
the card is powered by the pci slot and does not have any extra leads and i have double checked the bios and cant see anything for the card, i have looked into this on the internet and it seems this motherboard does it auto...
i think im going to back up the stuff i want off the hard drive and do a fresh OS install and try again and if they does not work i will have to put it in the shop to get done by them |
Grey Stormshadow
Starwreck Industries
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Posted - 2011.09.16 15:22:00 -
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Airtrooper Appleby wrote:ok thanks for the help...
i downloaded the latest drivers from nvidia
switched the system off and put the card back in, booted up and system went in to low res just loke i expected, windows installed a driver and i then went into device manager and updated the driver with the latest one i downloaded, restarted the system and again black screen after splash screens only this time i got a blue screen and system crashed after a few seconds...
Could you explain why you went to device manager ? The drivers usually come with a setup tool, which will hande everything neccessary in proper way... Forum fix for firefox and chrome Get working images and colored text Classic forum style 2.25final |
Airtrooper Appleby
Black Horizon Industries Beanbag Alliance
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Posted - 2011.09.16 17:24:00 -
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Grey Stormshadow wrote: Could you explain why you went to device manager ? The drivers usually come with a setup tool, which will hande everything neccessary in proper way...
i went into device manager because i wanted to make sure the driver windows installed was the correct one, windows did this auto without letting me choose it, i went to the driver windows installed for the card which is like version 198.26 or somthing and updated to latest which is 210.05 or somthing, its the latest one i got off nvidia website.
at the moment in backing my hard drive up onto DVD's then im going to do a fresh windows install and try it all again...
if this does not work its going to have to go into the shop to be fixed.
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Grey Stormshadow
Starwreck Industries
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Posted - 2011.09.16 20:06:00 -
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Okies... yea well...
Taken all what you have explained to account changes are that: - Windows installation is damaged - The card isn't getting enough power (too small powersupply or missing power connection directly to card if there is one) - The card is broken/incompatible with the motherboard - The motherboard bios doesn't support the device, but possible update could help. - Some bios setting related to pci-express slot/speed is causing the error.
That is pretty much as far as I can help you... will wish you luck trying to solve the issue tho. If you're installing windows 7 now, at least you get rid of the vista factor... that by itself may cause all kinds of funny stuff. Forum fix for firefox and chrome Get working images and colored text Classic forum style 2.25final |
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