Asus V9980 un-Ultra

[VideoQuasar]

So I got this card from newegg and and thought it would be a smooth install. I installed it along with a new power supply Pure power 560 and all is well with power. With the manuel it says to install the windows Standard DisplayAdapter (VGA) but its not in there. Just all my FX5600 drivers. When I fire up with the 5950, nothing.....put back my eVGA FX5600 and I'm booting and running. I'm deathly afraid to uninstall the drivers for that card in fear of never seeing a screen again. What should I do good people.

Thanks

VQ

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Your going to have to uninstall your old drivers. You didn't have display drivers when you first installed windows did you? Windows will beable use default drivers to atleast get a display up. You should run drive cleaner too just to be sure everythings gone from your old card although I don't know if it's important when going nvidia to nvidia.

 

[VideoQuasar]

No Aya...I didn't, thanks for the reassurance of that fact. I'll do it after work and try it...don't go away please!

 

[VideoQuasar]

Welp, cleared all the drivers and uninstalled all the Nvidia stuff, nada! Does not boot into windows. I no longer have display adapters in the control panel. I have that funky weak windows screen look with my 5600 in and running, from the generic driver I think. Do you think I might actually have a bad card? I hope there is a solution.

maaannn......

 

[yhelothar]

Did you buy a refurb? you probably got a defect.

 

[VideoQuasar]

No ..Brand spanking new! Is this something that is typical of defective cards? I don't even get into post, the computer just starts up and sits there on idle.

 

[yhelothar]

are you sure you hooked up the additional power connector?
If so, then I think your board was DOA. It should AT LEAST post.

 

[VideoQuasar]

yep, and even switched a couple around to double check. Now what, send it back to NewEgg via RMA.:|

Do you think they will let me switch to different cards? dang...should I start a thread in the tech area?

 

[Cawchy87]

how many watts is your psu?

 

[yhelothar]

read his OP.. he has an Antec PurePower 560 which is a 500 - 550W PSU

 

[VideoQuasar]

here's my system before my new card and PSU

Asus A7N8X Deluxe v2.0 - AMD 3000+ 333mz Barton - Volcano 12 Extreme HSF - 3 stix Corsair PC3200C2 XMS for 1500 MB (virtual memory off) - 1 Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 120GB ultra/133 HD (for OS) - 2 IBM Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 250GB SATA 7200RPM Hard Drives (RAID 0 cluster size 64kb) - eVGA GeFORCE FX5600 256MB with TV/DVI/VIVO video card - ASUS DRW-0804P 8X dual format DVD writer - Pioneer DVR-A05U 4X DVD-R writer - Cambridge SoundWorks 5.1 AC-3 sound system from onboard MoBo S/PDIF - RaidMax 400W PSU - Cooler Master ATCs case - Windows XP Home - Vegas 4.0 - TMPGEnc DVD Author - my "Video Quasar" computer


Thermaltake actually.....maybe murphy's law will help....I've packed it all up so maybe someone will see my delima and know a little quirk because it's my system....help before I send it off!!!

 

[VideoQuasar]

Can It possibly be Windows needs to be activated again? That needs to be done now with all my card switching and prior upgrades. I have three days, then what happens? Geez