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Grey Stormshadow
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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.
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Grey Stormshadow
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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...
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Grey Stormshadow
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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.
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