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Black screen with 6800GT and ASRock 939Dual-SATA2
Hi,
I had a perfectly good machine (Asus A7V333, Athlon XP 2400+, 1GB RAM, Sparkle 6800GT, NVidia 81.85 drivers, Windows XP SP2, Viewsonic VP930 LCD monitor, etc.) and it ran all my games ok. However, I wanted more speed, so I swapped the motherboard for an ASROCK 939Dual-SATA2 and the processor for an Athlon64 3200+. I uninstalled all the VIA drivers for the A7V333 motherboard - AGP, IDE bus master, etc. and rebuilt the machine in a new case with the same 2 hard drives, DVDROM, DVD R/W, floppy drive and power supply (Hiper 450W). Everything seemed OK, Windows booted up, it detected the "new" hardware, I installed the ULi drivers and re-installed the NVidia drivers. All seemed to be ok, I could play Doom3 and Quake 4, but when I tried FEAR or UT2004 or Halo, I'd get the introductory movies and sound, but only a black screen! With Half Life 2, I got a screen, but it wasn't working properly, with artifacts in the sky. None of the 3DMark benchmarking suites will run properly either. Is it just OpenGL applications that are working ok, and DirectX applications that are not? If so, or even if not, what's going on? Has anybody else had the same experience and how can I get round the problem? Ian |
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Black screen with 6800GT and ASRock 939Dual-SATA2
Hi again,
I have solved my own problem! Having read a number of posts in this and other newsgroups, it looked as though it could be the NVidia drivers that were at fault. So, I uninstalled the ULi AGP driver again and the 81.95 NVidia drivers, rebooted, re-loaded the ULi AGP driver, re-booted and then installed the 78.05 NVidia drivers. Success - FEAR now starts OK, I've yet to test the others, but they should be the same. What's gone wrong in the 8x.xx series drivers, then? Ian "Ian" salsa.tunes[REMOVE FOR wrote in message ... Hi, I had a perfectly good machine (Asus A7V333, Athlon XP 2400+, 1GB RAM, Sparkle 6800GT, NVidia 81.85 drivers, Windows XP SP2, Viewsonic VP930 LCD monitor, etc.) and it ran all my games ok. However, I wanted more speed, so I swapped the motherboard for an ASROCK 939Dual-SATA2 and the processor for an Athlon64 3200+. I uninstalled all the VIA drivers for the A7V333 motherboard - AGP, IDE bus master, etc. and rebuilt the machine in a new case with the same 2 hard drives, DVDROM, DVD R/W, floppy drive and power supply (Hiper 450W). Everything seemed OK, Windows booted up, it detected the "new" hardware, I installed the ULi drivers and re-installed the NVidia drivers. All seemed to be ok, I could play Doom3 and Quake 4, but when I tried FEAR or UT2004 or Halo, I'd get the introductory movies and sound, but only a black screen! With Half Life 2, I got a screen, but it wasn't working properly, with artifacts in the sky. None of the 3DMark benchmarking suites will run properly either. Is it just OpenGL applications that are working ok, and DirectX applications that are not? If so, or even if not, what's going on? Has anybody else had the same experience and how can I get round the problem? Ian |
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Black screen with 6800GT and ASRock 939Dual-SATA2
My AsRock+6800 Ultra are working fine with the 81.x drivers - I even
took a VIA machine install and moved it over just like you did. I did go ahead and do a repair install of Windows, though (not without a backup image of the system drive - the same procedure failed moving my 'work' system over to the old gaming m/b) Did you use the chipset drivers from ULi? I heard there were problems with the AsRock ones. I started with 81.95 and now have 81.98 running - both worked great. Good luck, Kendt |
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Black screen with 6800GT and ASRock 939Dual-SATA2
Hi Kendt,
Glad to hear you're doing fine with the 81.x drivers. I did use the ULi chipset drivers (integrated v 2.13)- read the same messages as you about the uncertainty in using the ASRock ones. It could be that my eventual success in getting rid of the problem was to do with the process of uninstalling both the ULI AGP driver and the NVidia drivers, and then re-installing in the right order with re-boots in-between. Seems a bit like black magic to me; I am a scientist though and like to understand what's going on! When I'm feeling brave I might try the 81.xx drivers again, but only with a system restore in hand in case things go bad again! Thanks Ian wrote in message oups.com... My AsRock+6800 Ultra are working fine with the 81.x drivers - I even took a VIA machine install and moved it over just like you did. I did go ahead and do a repair install of Windows, though (not without a backup image of the system drive - the same procedure failed moving my 'work' system over to the old gaming m/b) Did you use the chipset drivers from ULi? I heard there were problems with the AsRock ones. I started with 81.95 and now have 81.98 running - both worked great. Good luck, Kendt |
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Black screen with 6800GT and ASRock 939Dual-SATA2
Update - it doesn't look as though the problem was with the Nvidia drivers
after all. I have installed version 82.12 with no black screen problem. It looks as though the order in which you instal the Uli AGP driver and the Nvidia drivers is crucial. Hope this helps somebody else! Ian "Ian" salsa.tunes[REMOVE FOR wrote in message ... Hi Kendt, Glad to hear you're doing fine with the 81.x drivers. I did use the ULi chipset drivers (integrated v 2.13)- read the same messages as you about the uncertainty in using the ASRock ones. It could be that my eventual success in getting rid of the problem was to do with the process of uninstalling both the ULI AGP driver and the NVidia drivers, and then re-installing in the right order with re-boots in-between. Seems a bit like black magic to me; I am a scientist though and like to understand what's going on! When I'm feeling brave I might try the 81.xx drivers again, but only with a system restore in hand in case things go bad again! Thanks Ian wrote in message oups.com... My AsRock+6800 Ultra are working fine with the 81.x drivers - I even took a VIA machine install and moved it over just like you did. I did go ahead and do a repair install of Windows, though (not without a backup image of the system drive - the same procedure failed moving my 'work' system over to the old gaming m/b) Did you use the chipset drivers from ULi? I heard there were problems with the AsRock ones. I started with 81.95 and now have 81.98 running - both worked great. Good luck, Kendt |
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