Major Comp Problem - Can't Install Drivers
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FarFarAway
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Look phnomn pheh - Dave is NOT repeat NOT an idiot
He's tried all of the things most intelligent people would try (and some more advanced things they wouldn't) and thats why he's asking for help and ideas out of the box
Please do NOT assume the worst of people - especially not someone who is a mod on an overclocking and modifying forum
There is a reason why he's a mod
Please do not patronise our members
He's tried all of the things most intelligent people would try (and some more advanced things they wouldn't) and thats why he's asking for help and ideas out of the box
Please do NOT assume the worst of people - especially not someone who is a mod on an overclocking and modifying forum
There is a reason why he's a mod
Please do not patronise our members
Phnom_Penh
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kempez815 said:Look phnomn pheh - Dave is NOT repeat NOT an idiot
He's tried all of the things most intelligent people would try (and some more advanced things they wouldn't) and thats why he's asking for help and ideas out of the box
Please do NOT assume the worst of people - especially not someone who is a mod on an overclocking and modifying forum
There is a reason why he's a mod
I did not mean to patronise. Even the best miss simple things.
FarFarAway
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Fair enough but he did say he'd done it 
Phnom_Penh
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ok to put this back on topic, have you check that the card has no IRQ conflicts?
I also know of a virus that will mess up the drivers, you done a scan recently?
I also know of a virus that will mess up the drivers, you done a scan recently?
Dav0s
A coincidence maybe but someone brought a laptop to me last week with the very same problem, everytine it booted up it was in a low vga screen with 4 colours (i think), anyway it turned out that a startup program was corrupting the screen settings. How I found out was by going into run, typing msconfig, use selective startup and untick load startup items. Reboot and everything was OK, I wanted to then go into which program was the culprit but the client just wanted to leave it there, she was happy, so I never quite got to the bottom of which program was doing this, I only know that one ogf those was to blame.
Try this, it may or may not be your problem but worth the time.
Regards
succuba
A coincidence maybe but someone brought a laptop to me last week with the very same problem, everytine it booted up it was in a low vga screen with 4 colours (i think), anyway it turned out that a startup program was corrupting the screen settings. How I found out was by going into run, typing msconfig, use selective startup and untick load startup items. Reboot and everything was OK, I wanted to then go into which program was the culprit but the client just wanted to leave it there, she was happy, so I never quite got to the bottom of which program was doing this, I only know that one ogf those was to blame.
Try this, it may or may not be your problem but worth the time.
Regards
succuba
Toxteth O'Grady
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Does DXdiag give any hints to the problem?
Another longshot is to try a BootVis optimisation as there maybe an ini file interfering with the driver init.
TOG
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Another longshot is to try a BootVis optimisation as there maybe an ini file interfering with the driver init.
TOG
TOG
FarFarAway
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Man hope SCAN come through for ya as they usually do
FragTek
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name='Dav0s' said:
Well lets not think about that until we have ruled out all of the software probabilities
Keep happy thoughts, lol.Though if it does end up being a hardware problem its the best excuse to get a newer better vid card
hehe.I've been having some lockup problems with my 6800GT's under heavy heavy video load and have been seriously considering trashing those eVGA pieces of shit and getting something new. Random lockups in EQ2 are pissing me off to the max. The EQ2 gfx engine is probably the most insane engine to date, the only one that on extreme quality settings can brutalize my 6 series cards and make em do about 3fps max. Wonder what a pair of 512mb GTX's would be able to do, muahaha. hehe.
raging-savage said:system restore is very usefull you should use it i know its saved my skin a few times
cheers.
Agree with you there savage! Many times in work I have done this with customers and sorts problems straight away! 1 of the most useful things of XP imo!
Surely it wouldn't be a problem with the card if you didn't clock it? How long have you had it? If it is the GFX card surely it is still under warranty?
Trippledence
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I've had fiddely problems like this before, and formattings just faster than trying to fix it in 80% of cases.
It could be that your cards BIOS is not compatable with Nvidia drivers any more, but that seems very unlikley.
It could be that your cards BIOS is not compatable with Nvidia drivers any more, but that seems very unlikley.
