hi
i recently had an accident that fried my motherboard and graphics card. I bought a new mboard/cpu/memory and an 8800 gfx card.
i ve got a fresh install of xp( sp2) but when ever i try to install the drivers the system crashes when the bar gets to around halfway up. If i reboot i get a blue screen of death until i reboot in safe mode and delete the drivers. I tried the drives from the disk and the 93.71 and 97.92 ones from the nvidia site.. nothing works.
im thinking now that maybe the card is incompatible - but before i send it back i really need to be sure and tbh i dont know enough about computers to figure that out.
so what i have is:
-BFG GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3 DVI HDCP HDTV out PCI-E
-ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA PT880 Ultra Socket 775 SATA 8 channel audio ATX
-Crucial 2GB kit (1GBx2) DDR2 PC2-5300 CL=5 UNBUFFERED NON-ECC DDR2-667 1.8V
-Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4ghz) Socket 775 FSB1066 4MB Cache
-psu noisetaker2 enermax atx 12v eg701ax-ve(w)sfma(24p) 600w 100-240 vac
if anyone could help i would be eternally grateful.. im totally at a loss at the moment
i would have tried putting the old card back in - but unfortunatly i blew that up
thanks
i recently had an accident that fried my motherboard and graphics card. I bought a new mboard/cpu/memory and an 8800 gfx card.
i ve got a fresh install of xp( sp2) but when ever i try to install the drivers the system crashes when the bar gets to around halfway up. If i reboot i get a blue screen of death until i reboot in safe mode and delete the drivers. I tried the drives from the disk and the 93.71 and 97.92 ones from the nvidia site.. nothing works.
im thinking now that maybe the card is incompatible - but before i send it back i really need to be sure and tbh i dont know enough about computers to figure that out.
so what i have is:
-BFG GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3 DVI HDCP HDTV out PCI-E
-ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA PT880 Ultra Socket 775 SATA 8 channel audio ATX
-Crucial 2GB kit (1GBx2) DDR2 PC2-5300 CL=5 UNBUFFERED NON-ECC DDR2-667 1.8V
-Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4ghz) Socket 775 FSB1066 4MB Cache
-psu noisetaker2 enermax atx 12v eg701ax-ve(w)sfma(24p) 600w 100-240 vac
if anyone could help i would be eternally grateful.. im totally at a loss at the moment
i would have tried putting the old card back in - but unfortunatly i blew that up
thanks