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Asus EN8600GT Graphics Driver Problems - Help Please
I just put together a brand new system with an Asus P5K main board, an Asus EN8600GT Silent Graphics Card with 512MB video ram (Nividia Chip) and 8GB of DDR2 system Ram. I am running Windows XP SP2 and all drivers for both the onboard mainboard components and the graphics card installed properly without error. I am also running a dual monitor setup with the card. Shortly after the install XP started downloading and installing updates and then I started having problems with the graphics card driver. Basically every time I restart the computer or power it up with a cold boot the display driver reverts back to the original XP default driver (which of cource is not able to support the card properly). Then XP pops a message telling me the current manufacture’s graphics card driver I have installed can’t be used anymore and that I need to download and install an updated version. So I went to the Asus web site and downloaded the latest release of the Asus EN8600GT VGA Driver for XP, which is version 169.21 dated 12/05/2007. Then, once I put the driver update in, the system asks to reboot and everything is fine again with my 2 displays. But as soon as I either restart or shut down and reboot I am back to square one with the same problem again. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix the problem? Many thanks, Marc |
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Asus EN8600GT Graphics Driver Problems - Help Please
'marcbkk' wrote, in part:
I just put together a brand new system with an Asus P5K main board, an Asus EN8600GT Silent Graphics Card with 512MB video ram (Nividia Chip) and 8GB of DDR2 system Ram. I am running Windows XP SP2 and all drivers for both the onboard mainboard components and the graphics card installed properly without error. I am also running a dual monitor setup with the card. Shortly after the install XP started downloading and installing updates and then I started having problems with the graphics card driver. _____ Decide what it is that you really expect to do. Then, if you have a 32-bit operating system, sell the completely useless top 4 GBytes of DDR2 RAM and the nearly useless next 2 GBytes of DDR2 RAM (at best, with a 32-bit Windows operating system you have full use of only 2 GBytes of RAM and partial use of the third GByte of RAM.) The 512 MByte display adapter blocks another 1/2 GByte of RAM, and other peripheral reserved addresses block additional RAM in the the second 2 GBytes of installed RAM. THEN uninstall all drivers for your display adapter. Refuse if Windows XP offers to download and install drivers for your display adapter. Download the latest WHQL drivers form the nVidia website. THEN try installing the latest nVidia WHQL drivers. Vow to read directions, manuals, and newsgroups BEFORE purchasing components and building a computer system. Phil Weldon "marcbkk" wrote in message ... I just put together a brand new system with an Asus P5K main board, an Asus EN8600GT Silent Graphics Card with 512MB video ram (Nividia Chip) and 8GB of DDR2 system Ram. I am running Windows XP SP2 and all drivers for both the onboard mainboard components and the graphics card installed properly without error. I am also running a dual monitor setup with the card. Shortly after the install XP started downloading and installing updates and then I started having problems with the graphics card driver. Basically every time I restart the computer or power it up with a cold boot the display driver reverts back to the original XP default driver (which of cource is not able to support the card properly). Then XP pops a message telling me the current manufacture's graphics card driver I have installed can't be used anymore and that I need to download and install an updated version. So I went to the Asus web site and downloaded the latest release of the Asus EN8600GT VGA Driver for XP, which is version 169.21 dated 12/05/2007. Then, once I put the driver update in, the system asks to reboot and everything is fine again with my 2 displays. But as soon as I either restart or shut down and reboot I am back to square one with the same problem again. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix the problem? Many thanks, Marc |
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Asus EN8600GT Graphics Driver Problems - Help Please
"marcbkk" wrote in message ... I just put together a brand new system with an Asus P5K main board, an Asus EN8600GT Silent Graphics Card with 512MB video ram (Nividia Chip) and 8GB of DDR2 system Ram. snip But as soon as I either restart or shut down and reboot I am back to square one with the same problem again. This is a a Win XP SP2 x64 system, right? Please tell me you didn't stuff 8 Gig of RAM into a Windows XP x32 build. The advice the other poster gave is the most useful. Your problems began after Windows Update dowloaded and installed a series of updates. NEVER allow WU to replace any driver of any kind. |
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Asus EN8600GT Graphics Driver Problems - Help Please
I put in 8Gb because eventually I will go to a 64bit OS. For the moment I am running at 32bit until I am certain that all drivers and programs I want to install will run under a 64bit OS. I could take the extra ram out for the time being, but it’s not harming anything. Back to the problem. I have since nuked the XP install and stared all over again. All is working again seamlessly and I have completely disabled WU for the moment. I will soon create a drive image of the working install and then slowly allow things to update one by one and only download security updates for the time being. If I hit a snag where an update renders things unstable again I will just wind back to an earlier drive image so that I don't have to go through the full install again. Anyway, thanks for trying to school me, but I don't need to be schooled. What you did confirm though was that it was a problem related to WU which was my feeling from the start and why I nuked the OS earlier today and immediately disabled WU. |
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Asus EN8600GT Graphics Driver Problems - Help Please
'marcbbk' wrote:
I put in 8Gb because eventually I will go to a 64bit OS. For the moment I am running at 32bit until I am certain that all drivers and programs I want to install will run under a 64bit OS. I could take the extra ram out for the time being, but it’s not harming anything. Back to the problem. I have since nuked the XP install and stared all over again. All is working again seamlessly and I have completely disabled WU for the moment. I will soon create a drive image of the working install and then slowly allow things to update one by one and only download security updates for the time being. If I hit a snag where an update renders things unstable again I will just wind back to an earlier drive image so that I don't have to go through the full install again. Anyway, thanks for trying to school me, but I don't need to be schooled. What you did confirm though was that it was a problem related to WU which was my feeling from the start and why I nuked the OS earlier today and immediately disabled WU. _____ Yet the reinstall was not necessary, but you did it anyway rather than unistall the Windows Update provided drivers and replace with nVida WHQL drivers. Nor did you, alternatively, use the 'System Restore' built into Windows Vista which, in general, removes the need to go back to a perhaps months old complete backup. Finally, nothing drops so fast as memory prices, especially as a new memory standard enters the market (DDR3); so why not purchase memory when it is actually usable? As an example, DDR2 memory has dropped more than 50% in price in the last twelve months. Again, 'read directions, manuals, and newsgroups BEFORE purchasing components and building a computer system'. Phil Weldon "marcbkk" wrote in message ... I put in 8Gb because eventually I will go to a 64bit OS. For the moment I am running at 32bit until I am certain that all drivers and programs I want to install will run under a 64bit OS. I could take the extra ram out for the time being, but it’s not harming anything. Back to the problem. I have since nuked the XP install and stared all over again. All is working again seamlessly and I have completely disabled WU for the moment. I will soon create a drive image of the working install and then slowly allow things to update one by one and only download security updates for the time being. If I hit a snag where an update renders things unstable again I will just wind back to an earlier drive image so that I don't have to go through the full install again. Anyway, thanks for trying to school me, but I don't need to be schooled. What you did confirm though was that it was a problem related to WU which was my feeling from the start and why I nuked the OS earlier today and immediately disabled WU. |
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Asus EN8600GT Graphics Driver Problems - Help Please
Anyway, thanks for trying to school me, but I don't need to be
schooled. What you did confirm though was that it was a problem related to WU which was my feeling from the start and why I nuked the OS earlier today and immediately disabled WU. Based on what you did to resolve the issue, the facts seem to indicate otherwise... |
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