Forum Home
Press F1
 
Thread ID: 46986 2004-07-12 06:59:00 Major Issues with 9800PRO HadO (796) Press F1
Post ID Timestamp Content User
251735 2004-07-12 06:59:00 Uninstalled NVIDIA drivers and ripped out the old Ti4600 - put in 9800 PRO, connected extra power and started up system.

Got into Windows OK and proceeded to install MSI ATI drivers - this went smoothly and asked me to restart and I clicked OK.

Upon rebooting Windows stopped on startup and told me it had to check multiple (almost all) partitions for consistency (using CHKDSK) and found some problems on some and none on others. I get to the logon screen and am told that my user profile is corrupt and then get blasted with multiple "Delayed Write" error messages for all partitions.

I assume the driver install went astray so reload an old image of my C:\ and try some Catalyst drivers - same thing happens. I can get into Safe Mode and uninstall the drivers but even that sometimes does not work and the system reboots when it is entering safe mode! The system still has to check my partitions on startup when the old image is restored.

Any ideas??? Please Help

Specs: XP Home SP1, XP2000+ @ 2600+, 512MB DDR333, 400W PSU
HadO (796)
251736 2004-07-12 07:34:00 Is there another computer you can try it out in?

Try running your CPU at normal clock speeds and see what happens.
Growly (6)
251737 2004-07-12 07:41:00 Hi HadO,


I presume you have overclocked your machine, going from what you have written.
I had similar problems when upgrading to my Ti4600 from my old videocard. I found after extensive tests, the fact that my machine was overclocked it wouldn't run, putting it back to defaults fixed my problem.

Hope this helps
Intel Hunter (4430)
251738 2004-07-12 09:03:00 Hi have you tried flashing your bios because I had the exact same problem when i installed my 9600XT then I flashed my bios and used the latest catalyst drivers then it worked sweet as. Hope that helps overdrive_5000 (1684)
251739 2004-07-12 09:58:00 Are you talking about motherboard or graphics card BIOS?

I'm pretty sure I've flashed my mobo up to latest release - will have to check .

What happened to your system?

It's strange that just installing the drivers has had such interesting side effects - my winxp user profile gets corrupted every time and the CHKDSK programme insists on checking the file system of my partitions on startup each time .

I have given up at the moment and will try some more things tomorrow with a fresh brain .

If all else fails I am considering making a backup image and reinstalling Windows (I would really want to avoid this) .
HadO (796)
251740 2004-07-12 11:01:00 Likely you have remainders of the Nvidia drivers in your system.

What you need to do is get one of those detonator destroyer programs, or something similar to kill them out completely as they remain in the system and slow down your card. Even then you might not be rid of them.

What I did was a fresh install of windows and my performance increased 600 points in 3dMark03, so something was holding it back!

Get the Catalyst 4.7s as well if you haven't already.
kiki (762)
251741 2004-07-12 11:52:00 Have you tried any of the so called Windows "Tweaks" in the past. There was one for memory management that was a bad idea anytime but fatal with ATI video cards included. PaulD (232)
251742 2004-07-13 10:23:00 Hmmm... The drama continues...

Did a fresh install of Windows 2000 Pro and spent an entire day getting the system back up to speed (everything was running fine) and what do you know my logon profile got corrupted again and Windows now fails to boot with error:

AUTOCHK not found, skipping AUTOCHK

and then blue screens. Cant get into safe mode or anything.

I'm starting to think my hard drive is dying or something - I'm really running out of options here... :o(
HadO (796)
251743 2004-07-13 11:18:00 Could it be a power issue?

Perhaps you should try the computer with your old video card back in. Presuming it works fine then, I would most likely attribute it to the fact that the ATI card requires an extra power connector.
agent (30)
251744 2004-07-14 01:11:00 > Could it be a power issue?
>
> Perhaps you should try the computer with your old
> video card back in. Presuming it works fine then, I
> would most likely attribute it to the fact that the
> ATI card requires an extra power connector.

I'd have to agree what brand of PSU is that? You did remember to plug in the extra power connector for your 9800pro? On the MSI card its a small floppy connector at the top of the card near the HSF. The 9800 uses alot more power than the ti4400 so i'd be willing to bet thats your problem.
Pete O'Neil (250)
1 2