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| 59163 | 2002-07-02 00:51:00 | Good morning I have a: Athlon 1800, 512mb,EC MOB K7S5A,GeForce 3 Ti 200, XP Home Edition OS . As you do with these things I overclocked the card . It now seems that the card is causing the current problem . Appreciate greatly any help available . When I boot-up, I get flicked back to the start of POST, immediately before booting into the XP Welcome screen . When I Engage VGA (after F8) I can boot all the way in . However after Add Hardware, and Device Manager attempts at loading Nvidia drivers, the Wizards prompt a "Problems with installing hardware" message . I have tried all XP Help suggestions, and am about to deinstall/reinstall the card itself . I have tried Nvidia drivers: 22 . 50/29 . 30/28 . 90/29 . 80 and none of them work . One seemingly curious aspect, when Booting into Safe Mode, all the original Nvidia card settings remain operable ie Display Properties and Device Manager show the card as installed, stable and working . I thought that booting into Safe Mode disables the card and automatically installs VGA . Thats the problem, looking forward to any suggestions, observations, recommendations, fixes, calibre bullet size for permanent fix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Mboam (802) | ||
| 59164 | 2002-07-02 01:10:00 | what where you useing to overclock the card with? first thing is to set card to default settings. i'm not familar with XP but basicly try setting video to standard pci graphics card, uninstall nvida drivers. remove any entry of gf3 in divice manager. see if it will boot into normal mode with video card as standard card. hopefully its just a case of cleaning out old driver entries and reinstalling driver. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 59165 | 2002-07-02 01:10:00 | 1st step: restore all the original speed settings and check to see if it all works again... If it does, then you may have found an unstable spped, try one in between your original speed and what you clocked it to. If that doesnt work, you may have damaged your hardware. This is one of the perils of overclocking. If it was made to go that fast, it would have gone that fast when you bought it!! Also, try replacing your graphics card with another one that you know works, if this one also doesn't work, then the problem lies elsewhere, ie not your graphics card... HTH, Craig. |
Craig Bellhouse (493) | ||
| 59166 | 2002-07-02 03:03:00 | Hi, thanks heeps for your reply. I was using the GeForce Utility available from Guru 3D. One question; how do you access the standard PCI card? Uninstalling GeForce 3 with Device Manager?? |
Mboam (802) | ||
| 59167 | 2002-07-02 03:08:00 | Hi Craig yes, you're right, play with a big fire and using the urinary tract only to put it out may not suffice . Thanks for your help and reply . This forum is awesome . |
Mboam (802) | ||
| 59168 | 2002-07-02 06:07:00 | when you overclock never go pass 10% or if you do and detect artifacts streaking dots etc get out fast and reset to standard setting your graphics card can be damaged by excessive stress | kiwibeat (304) | ||
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