BFG 6600 GT OC installation problems

Hi,
I bought the above card to replace my old Radeon (the original 32 meg
card). Before installing the new card, I delete all ATI drivers and
set the screen resolution to the lowest available - 800x600x16 bit.
However, the new card prevents windows from loading. I booted in safe
more and the boot hangs at "agp440.sys" and will not go further. I
have upgraded my m/b drivers and messed with the bios a bit but no
difference. My specs:

P4 3gig
Asus P4P 800 SE
1 gig ram
3 HD's
1 firewire card
1 Dell 24" LCD
350 Antec PSU

When I put my Radeon back in, the system boots fine. Although I did
notice one strange anomaly; when booting from the Radeon with the Dell
LCD (DVI) I get garbage on the screen until the windows screen comes
up. When I use a CRT (ANALAGUE) I can see the bios screen.
When booting with the 6600 and Dell LCD or CRT, I get the bios sceen no
problem. Weird.
Anyways...I know that many users have experienced the agp440.sys but so
far, I wasn't able to solve my problem. Any ideas?

Could it be my PSU not being powerful enough? Also, the m/b manual
says that it will only work with 1.5V cards, not 3.0V cards. Is the
6600 3.0V's?

bombaj

On 11 Dec 2005 17:03:40 -0800, "bombaj" wrote:

Hi,
I bought the above card to replace my old Radeon (the original 32 meg
card). Before installing the new card, I delete all ATI drivers and
set the screen resolution to the lowest available - 800x600x16 bit.
However, the new card prevents windows from loading. I booted in safe
more and the boot hangs at "agp440.sys" and will not go further. I
have upgraded my m/b drivers and messed with the bios a bit but no
difference. My specs:

P4 3gig
Asus P4P 800 SE
1 gig ram
3 HD's
1 firewire card
1 Dell 24" LCD
350 Antec PSU

When I put my Radeon back in, the system boots fine. Although I did
notice one strange anomaly; when booting from the Radeon with the Dell
LCD (DVI) I get garbage on the screen until the windows screen comes
up. When I use a CRT (ANALAGUE) I can see the bios screen.
When booting with the 6600 and Dell LCD or CRT, I get the bios sceen no
problem. Weird.
Anyways...I know that many users have experienced the agp440.sys but so
far, I wasn't able to solve my problem. Any ideas?

Could it be my PSU not being powerful enough? Also, the m/b manual
says that it will only work with 1.5V cards, not 3.0V cards. Is the
6600 3.0V's?

bombaj
If you can get into the bios and view the bios settings, I suspect the
card is working fine. So I don't think you need to worry about the
voltage issue. I suspect the problem may be leftover vestiges of ATI
drivers. Hopefully, someone can help out with that since I have no ATI
experience.
Lenster

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Hm, I deleted the ATI drivers using add/remove programs and after that
went into system settings (control panel - system - hardware - device
manager - delete leftover windows generic driver - reboot). I guess I
need to get into the registry but I'm not comfortable with doing that.
Is anything available that will clean it?

bombaj

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Hm, I deleted the ATI drivers using add/remove programs and after that
went into system settings (control panel - system - hardware - device
manager - delete leftover windows generic driver - reboot). I guess I
need to get into the registry but I'm not comfortable with doing that.
Is anything available that will clean it?

bombaj

You should just download Driver Cleaner 3 and follow the instructions. Just
do a Google search. It will remove all of the ATI driver stuff from the
registry.

Thanks dude, I will give it a try tonight.

bombaj