Recent content by dpstrand

Yes it is the crap ECS from the package deal at fry's. It's the GF7050VT-M. I figured out what the problem was. In the bios there is a setting called "Top of Memory under 4GB" which I had set to 3.5 GB. When I set it back to 3.25 GB the 4850 works fine, no black screen. Hurrah!!

I exchanged the 4850 tonight and get the same result. Could it be the motherboard? Has anyone else seen a problem like this with an ati and an nforce motherboard?

I don't have another pci-e card to use to test the slot, but I think I'll go ahead and exchange it, or see if they will test it for me, at best buy tonight.

Side note: I removed the 4850 and switched back to the onboard video to finish the xp install, which worked fine. Now that the install is done, anytime I use the onboard video it works fine, but anytime I switch to the 4850 I get video up through the "starting windows" splash screen and progress...

So I put together a new PC using a 4850. The motherboard has on board video, it's a GeForce7050 / 610i chipset. I disabled the video card in the bios, plugged in the 4850, and the bios, and dos vesa video mode for the first part of the xp install shows video just fine. Where I run into...

I think what I'm going to do is use the cheapo ECS that came with the processor (fry's deal) and wait out the p45 reviews.... I guess that way I can wait for some p45 stability.

I would also like to run linux, I understand the asus p5q boards use an atheros L1e and that there is no atheros driver in the current linux kernels. I guess that takes the p5q variants off my list.

I putting together a system with a Q9450 core 2 quad and ati 8450, primary use will be avchd camcorder video editing and some gaming (age of conan). I'm trying to decide between a more robust p35 offering versus a lower end p45 offering. Specifically, asus p5k pro p35 board for $105 versus...