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October 24th 07, 04:53 PM
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Vista and latest NDVIDIA driver failure!!!
Guts, Horror, Hair, Vomit, Death!!!! I don't know how to express my FURY!
Background: Motherboard : P5N-e SLI CPU : Intel core2 duo E6600 Video card : Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS 640 MB Gddr3 RAM : 3 Gig 2x1 Gig Corsair 2x512K Corsair 2x SATA 2 320 Gig Western digital HDs iCute Case with heaps of fans all over the place. I am NOT OVERCLOCKING! Whenever I boot the machine in SAFE mode, or have deleted the NVIDIA drivers using the Device Manager, the PC boots. When I install the NVIDIA drivers (163.69 or 162.22) I get problems. What happens is: The screen shows the BIOS screen, then flashes into Windows. I see the green upright bars parading left to right. The screen then blanks, the bling noise sounds (for the startup of Vista) but the screen is blank (not even receiving a signal). Why am I so furious! This behavior originally happened ages ago. It appeared to be early NVIDIA drivers. I was able to get NVIDIA 163.69 working happily. This is great. New PC, should run like a bought one!!! The latest issue, after 2 major other issues with the video card, or software, is that the screen will not display anything. The screen displays the BIOS boot screen and the Windows moving green bars appear, but as soon as it actually boots into Windows (Vista Home Premium) the screen looses signal. What have I tried to do? PC will boot OK into Windows if the NVIDIA driver for the GeForce 8800GTS is uninstalled. i.e. VGA driver. I had this problem a week ago, so I sent the PC back to the vendor. They were able to get the vidio driver working. Everything was working, my wife shut down the machine one night. I came in, in the morning, noticed that the blue lights inside the PC were still on, so I pressed the power button for 4 seconds to turn off the PC. When restated the screen would shut off on load of Windows Vista (Home Premium). Arrgh! I have tried reinstalling the correct video driver (163.69) without success. Finally I tried to recover from a prior (working) recover point. It appeared to be successful, however the screen remained black, with no signa What could be the problem? 
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October 25th 07, 03:54 AM
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Vista and latest NDVIDIA driver failure!!!
Bill wrote:
In article , says... Guts, Horror, Hair, Vomit, Death!!!! I don't know how to express my FURY! Background: Motherboard : P5N-e SLI CPU : Intel core2 duo E6600 Video card : Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS 640 MB Gddr3 RAM : 3 Gig 2x1 Gig Corsair 2x512K Corsair 2x SATA 2 320 Gig Western digital HDs iCute Case with heaps of fans all over the place. I am NOT OVERCLOCKING! Whenever I boot the machine in SAFE mode, or have deleted the NVIDIA drivers using the Device Manager, the PC boots. When I install the NVIDIA drivers (163.69 or 162.22) I get problems. What happens is: The screen shows the BIOS screen, then flashes into Windows. I see the green upright bars parading left to right. The screen then blanks, the bling noise sounds (for the startup of Vista) but the screen is blank (not even receiving a signal). Why am I so furious! This behavior originally happened ages ago. It appeared to be early NVIDIA drivers. I was able to get NVIDIA 163.69 working happily. This is great. New PC, should run like a bought one!!! The latest issue, after 2 major other issues with the video card, or software, is that the screen will not display anything. The screen displays the BIOS boot screen and the Windows moving green bars appear, but as soon as it actually boots into Windows (Vista Home Premium) the screen looses signal. What have I tried to do? PC will boot OK into Windows if the NVIDIA driver for the GeForce 8800GTS is uninstalled. i.e. VGA driver. I had this problem a week ago, so I sent the PC back to the vendor. They were able to get the vidio driver working. Everything was working, my wife shut down the machine one night. I came in, in the morning, noticed that the blue lights inside the PC were still on, so I pressed the power button for 4 seconds to turn off the PC. When restated the screen would shut off on load of Windows Vista (Home Premium). Arrgh! I have tried reinstalling the correct video driver (163.69) without success. Finally I tried to recover from a prior (working) recover point. It appeared to be successful, however the screen remained black, with no signa What could be the problem? A 'Live' cd/dvd is a cd/dvd that will boot a live/usable operating system on a pc without using a hard drive. What I would do is get a 'Live' cd/dvd and boot the pc. If your problem is still there it's a hardware problem. If it isn't it's a software problem. http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php Report back when you've figured out whether it's a hardware problem or a software problem. Consider upgrading to Windows XP Pro. Bill Aha! Brilliant idea! Thanks very much! Earlier in the week, when the PC was working OK, I had tried out the Ubuntu 7.10 live CD. It worked OK. Now this morning I tried again, and it would only come up in reduced graphics mode! It seems I must have been having an intermittent hardware error, that now has become "hard". I'm taking this card back to the shop for warranty replacement! Thank you again! As you may have noticed from the earlier post, I was about to tear my hair out.
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October 25th 07, 06:00 AM
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Vista and latest NDVIDIA driver failure!!!
In article ,
says... Bill wrote: In article , says... Guts, Horror, Hair, Vomit, Death!!!! I don't know how to express my FURY! Background: Motherboard : P5N-e SLI CPU : Intel core2 duo E6600 Video card : Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS 640 MB Gddr3 RAM : 3 Gig 2x1 Gig Corsair 2x512K Corsair 2x SATA 2 320 Gig Western digital HDs iCute Case with heaps of fans all over the place. I am NOT OVERCLOCKING! Whenever I boot the machine in SAFE mode, or have deleted the NVIDIA drivers using the Device Manager, the PC boots. When I install the NVIDIA drivers (163.69 or 162.22) I get problems. What happens is: The screen shows the BIOS screen, then flashes into Windows. I see the green upright bars parading left to right. The screen then blanks, the bling noise sounds (for the startup of Vista) but the screen is blank (not even receiving a signal). Why am I so furious! This behavior originally happened ages ago. It appeared to be early NVIDIA drivers. I was able to get NVIDIA 163.69 working happily. This is great. New PC, should run like a bought one!!! The latest issue, after 2 major other issues with the video card, or software, is that the screen will not display anything. The screen displays the BIOS boot screen and the Windows moving green bars appear, but as soon as it actually boots into Windows (Vista Home Premium) the screen looses signal. What have I tried to do? PC will boot OK into Windows if the NVIDIA driver for the GeForce 8800GTS is uninstalled. i.e. VGA driver. I had this problem a week ago, so I sent the PC back to the vendor. They were able to get the vidio driver working. Everything was working, my wife shut down the machine one night. I came in, in the morning, noticed that the blue lights inside the PC were still on, so I pressed the power button for 4 seconds to turn off the PC. When restated the screen would shut off on load of Windows Vista (Home Premium). Arrgh! I have tried reinstalling the correct video driver (163.69) without success. Finally I tried to recover from a prior (working) recover point. It appeared to be successful, however the screen remained black, with no signa What could be the problem? A 'Live' cd/dvd is a cd/dvd that will boot a live/usable operating system on a pc without using a hard drive. What I would do is get a 'Live' cd/dvd and boot the pc. If your problem is still there it's a hardware problem. If it isn't it's a software problem. http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php Report back when you've figured out whether it's a hardware problem or a software problem. Consider upgrading to Windows XP Pro. Bill Aha! Brilliant idea! Thanks very much! Earlier in the week, when the PC was working OK, I had tried out the Ubuntu 7.10 live CD. It worked OK. Now this morning I tried again, and it would only come up in reduced graphics mode! It seems I must have been having an intermittent hardware error, that now has become "hard". I'm taking this card back to the shop for warranty replacement! Thank you again! As you may have noticed from the earlier post, I was about to tear my hair out. Tsk, Tsk. Nature will do that for you soon enough. I wouldn't rule out a power supply problem just yet. Bill
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October 26th 07, 09:31 AM
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Vista and latest NDVIDIA driver failure!!!
Bill wrote:
In article , says... Bill wrote: In article , says... Guts, Horror, Hair, Vomit, Death!!!! I don't know how to express my FURY! Background: Motherboard : P5N-e SLI CPU : Intel core2 duo E6600 Video card : Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS 640 MB Gddr3 RAM : 3 Gig 2x1 Gig Corsair 2x512K Corsair 2x SATA 2 320 Gig Western digital HDs iCute Case with heaps of fans all over the place. I am NOT OVERCLOCKING! Whenever I boot the machine in SAFE mode, or have deleted the NVIDIA drivers using the Device Manager, the PC boots. When I install the NVIDIA drivers (163.69 or 162.22) I get problems. What happens is: The screen shows the BIOS screen, then flashes into Windows. I see the green upright bars parading left to right. The screen then blanks, the bling noise sounds (for the startup of Vista) but the screen is blank (not even receiving a signal). Why am I so furious! This behavior originally happened ages ago. It appeared to be early NVIDIA drivers. I was able to get NVIDIA 163.69 working happily. This is great. New PC, should run like a bought one!!! The latest issue, after 2 major other issues with the video card, or software, is that the screen will not display anything. The screen displays the BIOS boot screen and the Windows moving green bars appear, but as soon as it actually boots into Windows (Vista Home Premium) the screen looses signal. What have I tried to do? PC will boot OK into Windows if the NVIDIA driver for the GeForce 8800GTS is uninstalled. i.e. VGA driver. I had this problem a week ago, so I sent the PC back to the vendor. They were able to get the vidio driver working. Everything was working, my wife shut down the machine one night. I came in, in the morning, noticed that the blue lights inside the PC were still on, so I pressed the power button for 4 seconds to turn off the PC. When restated the screen would shut off on load of Windows Vista (Home Premium). Arrgh! I have tried reinstalling the correct video driver (163.69) without success. Finally I tried to recover from a prior (working) recover point. It appeared to be successful, however the screen remained black, with no signa What could be the problem? A 'Live' cd/dvd is a cd/dvd that will boot a live/usable operating system on a pc without using a hard drive. What I would do is get a 'Live' cd/dvd and boot the pc. If your problem is still there it's a hardware problem. If it isn't it's a software problem. http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php Report back when you've figured out whether it's a hardware problem or a software problem. Consider upgrading to Windows XP Pro. Bill Aha! Brilliant idea! Thanks very much! Earlier in the week, when the PC was working OK, I had tried out the Ubuntu 7.10 live CD. It worked OK. Now this morning I tried again, and it would only come up in reduced graphics mode! It seems I must have been having an intermittent hardware error, that now has become "hard". I'm taking this card back to the shop for warranty replacement! Thank you again! As you may have noticed from the earlier post, I was about to tear my hair out. Tsk, Tsk. Nature will do that for you soon enough. I wouldn't rule out a power supply problem just yet. Bill The plot thickens! I took the PC back to the shop. They swapped the video card for some generic card from ATi. I came home, cranked it up, and... exactly the same! As soon as the PC wants to go to 1680x1050 resolution, it sends "no signal" to the monitor. I have been a very good customer to the PC shop, so he changed the motherboard to an upmarket Gigabyte board (charging me the difference between the old board and the new - I'm OK with that) I got it home about 30 minutes ago. Plugged it in, cranked it up... still the same. Man! What is it, then! OK! One of the other PC's in the house has Dell 1740FTP monitor. I swapped that over, restarted the PC, and it boots OK. Hang on... it doesn't use the Aero eye candy. I've got the screen running at its native resolution (1280x1024 - non widescreen). I then tried the widescreen monitor on the older XP machine... works fine! So I'm at a loss again. You said in the previous post it might be a power supply. The PC has a Themaltake TR2 - 550W power supply. What do you think???
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October 26th 07, 11:51 AM
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October 28th 07, 01:00 PM
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Vista and latest NDVIDIA driver failure!!!
Bill wrote:
In article , says... snip Bill The plot thickens! I took the PC back to the shop. They swapped the video card for some generic card from ATi. I came home, cranked it up, and... exactly the same! As soon as the PC wants to go to 1680x1050 resolution, it sends "no signal" to the monitor. I have been a very good customer to the PC shop, so he changed the motherboard to an upmarket Gigabyte board (charging me the difference between the old board and the new - I'm OK with that) I got it home about 30 minutes ago. Plugged it in, cranked it up... still the same. Man! What is it, then! OK! One of the other PC's in the house has Dell 1740FTP monitor. I swapped that over, restarted the PC, and it boots OK. Hang on... it doesn't use the Aero eye candy. I've got the screen running at its native resolution (1280x1024 - non widescreen). I then tried the widescreen monitor on the older XP machine... works fine! So I'm at a loss again. You said in the previous post it might be a power supply. The PC has a Themaltake TR2 - 550W power supply. What do you think??? While I think Thermaltake is one of the better power supplies on the market, it could still be failing power supply. I see that that P/S uses modular cabling. Make sure the cables on the P/S side are firmly seated and that there aren't any poor connections due to pushed back pins. If that doesn't help, see if you can borrow another P/S from somewhere and try it. Bill Hmmm! I spent today reloading everything onto the PC. Yes I did make sure the power connectors were seated correctly onto the motherboard. I reformatted the primary hard drive, reloaded Vista, motherboard drivers and NVIDIA 163.69 drivers. Everything seems to be working correctly. Thanks for your help, but it seems I will have to wait for the problem to re-occur (if ever). cheers Gordon
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October 28th 07, 06:05 PM
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Vista and latest NDVIDIA driver failure!!!
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says... Bill wrote: In article , says... snip Bill The plot thickens! I took the PC back to the shop. They swapped the video card for some generic card from ATi. I came home, cranked it up, and... exactly the same! As soon as the PC wants to go to 1680x1050 resolution, it sends "no signal" to the monitor. I have been a very good customer to the PC shop, so he changed the motherboard to an upmarket Gigabyte board (charging me the difference between the old board and the new - I'm OK with that) I got it home about 30 minutes ago. Plugged it in, cranked it up... still the same. Man! What is it, then! OK! One of the other PC's in the house has Dell 1740FTP monitor. I swapped that over, restarted the PC, and it boots OK. Hang on... it doesn't use the Aero eye candy. I've got the screen running at its native resolution (1280x1024 - non widescreen). I then tried the widescreen monitor on the older XP machine... works fine! So I'm at a loss again. You said in the previous post it might be a power supply. The PC has a Themaltake TR2 - 550W power supply. What do you think??? While I think Thermaltake is one of the better power supplies on the market, it could still be failing power supply. I see that that P/S uses modular cabling. Make sure the cables on the P/S side are firmly seated and that there aren't any poor connections due to pushed back pins. If that doesn't help, see if you can borrow another P/S from somewhere and try it. Bill Hmmm! I spent today reloading everything onto the PC. Yes I did make sure the power connectors were seated correctly onto the motherboard. Not just the motherboard side. There are connectors on the power supply side of the cables too. Don't forget to look for pushed back pins. I reformatted the primary hard drive, reloaded Vista, motherboard drivers and NVIDIA 163.69 drivers. Everything seems to be working correctly. Thanks for your help, but it seems I will have to wait for the problem to re-occur (if ever). cheers Gordon Bill
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October 28th 07, 07:38 PM
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'Bill' wrote:
| Not just the motherboard side. There are connectors on the power | supply side of the cables too. Don't forget to look for pushed back | pins _____ Pushed-back-pins - that's a good check to suggest - I've never had a power supply fail, but pushed back connector terminals will sneak up and bite you, especially if you jumped to the conclusion that the problem is power supply failure B^) Though I do think that the connectors supplied with modular power supplies are much better than the older Molex items. Phil Weldon "Bill" wrote in message news:MPG.218e6f58cf3c0f7e989705@localhost... | In article , | says... .. .. | Hmmm! I spent today reloading everything onto the PC. Yes I did make | sure the power connectors were seated correctly onto the motherboard. | | Not just the motherboard side. There are connectors on the power | supply side of the cables too. Don't forget to look for pushed back | pins. | | I reformatted the primary hard drive, reloaded Vista, motherboard | drivers and NVIDIA 163.69 drivers. Everything seems to be working correctly. | Thanks for your help, but it seems I will have to wait for the problem | to re-occur (if ever). | cheers | Gordon | | | Bill
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October 28th 07, 09:49 PM
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