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7900GS 256pcie doesn't work with drivers

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TitleistProV1

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Hello,

I currently live in the state of confusion.

I am trying to get my new build to work, and the 7900GS from evga is giving me fits.
Rig: Q6600, Gigabyte p35-DS3P, 4 GB or RAM, XP (no comments please), Silverston Zeus 750 PS, lots of cooling.

I got the card used off another guy here at anandtech, it should work fine. And it does work fine, until I install drivers for it. Boot the PC, and the gigabyte screen comes up. Windows opens, and everything is fine. Says it has found new hardware (the 7900GS), looks but cannot find drivers, then after closing the wizard, I load up the new evga drivers. Immediately the screen goes black and the system freezes. I turn off the PC at the power supply, then I turn it on again, and run windows in safe mode, and delete the nvidia drivers, and reboot. Then everything works.

These mobos have no on board adapters, so the thing should not produce an image on my monitor. Any advice is appreciated.

Titleistprov1

 
Well I have seen bad video cards work, that is until you install the drivers for them. Hopefully that is not it but if this is a new install of XP and you are having these problems it does suggest that the card is possibly bad. In my case it worked for a while, then eventually it went out without me even installing drivers. Although, you have XP, is this 32bit xp or 64bit xp? If it is 32 bit I would recomend you try this with 2 GB of ram instead of the full 4. 4 is too much for 32 bit xp and can cause problems.
 
not to be too paranoid, but try to find some older drivers as well. The latest forceware version caused a glitch in a 6600gt on my web machine. The desktop was scaled wider than the native res of my WS LCD and the whole thing would pan as the mouse moved to the edge. I had to go back to an older driver to get it to work right.

I think Nvidia's latest fixes for vista and DX10 are screwing up older cards. (not sure when the last non-vista driver was released.)
 
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