HipFly
08-05-2007, 12:58 AM
Okay...
Until yesterday I've always used a GeForce 6200 OC PCI card, but recently decided to upgrade to
a PCI-e 7600GT, and boy, am I having issues. First installation of the card went alright. I went into Device Manager and uninstalled the 6200 drivers, turned off the computer(I never actually unplugged anything, so that might be relevant), took out the 6200, and popped in the 7600GT, and booted up the computer. After installing the drivers given to me on the disc, I did a little gaming to test out the card. Everything worked perfectly. The next day, 15 minutes into Oblivion, my screen gets shot with artifacts and my game locks up. Huh. I thought a simple restart of the system would do the trick, but it the card didn't display anything on my monitor. "No big deal" I thought, I could exchange this card for another at Microcenter. And so I did. I install the new card, but this time when I install the Disc Drivers, my screen gets artifacts again, but no crash. I had yet to complete the restart required for installing drivers, so once again, I assumed a restart would fix the issue. :( Wrong. This time the card shows the start-up process, but when Windows XP loads, the monitor goes into sleep mode. After this point I reinstall my old PCI 6200, and see if everything works correctly. It does. I also noticed that Windows device manager reports the installed 7600GT as "Working Properly". I figured another clean install of the card would fix the artifacts, but no luck. It artifacts while in VGA mode now, unlike before. I also noticed changing the resolution and color quality fails. After updating my VIA 4 in 1 chipset, I tried everything over again. FAILURE :(. I decided to go back to the store and pick one more replacement, but this one is doing the exact same thing as the last one, only it started artifacting before I first installed the drivers. My last gambit on my own was to switch out of DVI mode for my monitor, but when I do that, I get the same results, but my picture is now tinted yellow. I called EVGA after that, and let me tell you, they're freakin' useless. All they did was marvel at how much bad luck I had. On the 5th try on contacting someone competent, an EVGA tech support guy told me my Power Supply *might* be sending out too much power to my PCI-e slot. I asked him if there is any way to edit how much power a PSU sends to each device. He said "yeah", then hung up on me. D:
What do I do now?
Specs:
Celeron 2.7ghz
VIA p4m890 Socket 478
1GB of RAM
Windows XP Service Pack 2
500w PSU
Drivers tested: 9x.xx series
Until yesterday I've always used a GeForce 6200 OC PCI card, but recently decided to upgrade to
a PCI-e 7600GT, and boy, am I having issues. First installation of the card went alright. I went into Device Manager and uninstalled the 6200 drivers, turned off the computer(I never actually unplugged anything, so that might be relevant), took out the 6200, and popped in the 7600GT, and booted up the computer. After installing the drivers given to me on the disc, I did a little gaming to test out the card. Everything worked perfectly. The next day, 15 minutes into Oblivion, my screen gets shot with artifacts and my game locks up. Huh. I thought a simple restart of the system would do the trick, but it the card didn't display anything on my monitor. "No big deal" I thought, I could exchange this card for another at Microcenter. And so I did. I install the new card, but this time when I install the Disc Drivers, my screen gets artifacts again, but no crash. I had yet to complete the restart required for installing drivers, so once again, I assumed a restart would fix the issue. :( Wrong. This time the card shows the start-up process, but when Windows XP loads, the monitor goes into sleep mode. After this point I reinstall my old PCI 6200, and see if everything works correctly. It does. I also noticed that Windows device manager reports the installed 7600GT as "Working Properly". I figured another clean install of the card would fix the artifacts, but no luck. It artifacts while in VGA mode now, unlike before. I also noticed changing the resolution and color quality fails. After updating my VIA 4 in 1 chipset, I tried everything over again. FAILURE :(. I decided to go back to the store and pick one more replacement, but this one is doing the exact same thing as the last one, only it started artifacting before I first installed the drivers. My last gambit on my own was to switch out of DVI mode for my monitor, but when I do that, I get the same results, but my picture is now tinted yellow. I called EVGA after that, and let me tell you, they're freakin' useless. All they did was marvel at how much bad luck I had. On the 5th try on contacting someone competent, an EVGA tech support guy told me my Power Supply *might* be sending out too much power to my PCI-e slot. I asked him if there is any way to edit how much power a PSU sends to each device. He said "yeah", then hung up on me. D:
What do I do now?
Specs:
Celeron 2.7ghz
VIA p4m890 Socket 478
1GB of RAM
Windows XP Service Pack 2
500w PSU
Drivers tested: 9x.xx series