Hi guys! 
I bought a brand new BFG 6800OC graphic about a week ago on Ebay and I have problems to get it to work.
My computer is a small form factor (SFF) PC from Soltek, the Qbic EQ3701M, equipped with the sl-b7a-f motherboard (Nforce2 chipset). I have the lastest Bios version. The CPU is an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ Mobile and I have 512Mb of Geil PC3200 Ram.
Up to now, I haven't been able to see some nice graphics with this card. Basically, after having installed it physically, I have reinstalled Windows XP Pro on my system partition, installed the Nforce system drivers, rebooted, installed the Nvidia graphic drivers. I have tried the drivers coming with the installation CD as well as the latest official ones and some non-official ones. This doesn't change anything to my problem: everytime that I boot my computer, everything runs fine... Windows begins to launch... the speed of the graphic card fans slows down and I get to the first prompt (the windows page showing the different users). This page is very badly displayed: sometimes it's just a blue page, sometimes it is almost normal, sometimes it isn't even displayed and the computer reboots. Anyway, with or without clicking, I am forced to reboot. Note that without drivers or running windows in VGA mode doesn't generate problems.
-My system memory doesn't seem to be the problem: I ran Memtest a night without errors.
-The card seems to be fully functional: the card was installed in another PC in a computer shop and would run a 3DMark05 test without problems.
-I don't think it is a power related issue: I tried all the molex connectors of a 300W PSU with minimal hardware connected on it.
-I don't think it's a software related problem: different drivers generate the same problem, as well as running a live version of Linux (Knoppix).
So I would suggest that the problem is related to the motherboard. I have never had problems like this with any of my ATI radeons on this motherboard before. I have changed almost all the parameters I could change in the Bios without improvments. I don't really know if the IRQ mentioned in the user guide is that important. When booting, the card seemed to have IRQ10 as well as 2-3 other components. When I boot in VGA mode, windows tells me it has IRQ19. I don't know if it is of importance... Perhaps my Soltek Motherboard is simply not compatible with my motherboard!
I have already spend a lot of time trying to fix this problem and cannot find help on the net. I have contacted BFG by email a couple of days ago with no success yet. So I thank you in advance for your help and suggestions.
I bought a brand new BFG 6800OC graphic about a week ago on Ebay and I have problems to get it to work.
My computer is a small form factor (SFF) PC from Soltek, the Qbic EQ3701M, equipped with the sl-b7a-f motherboard (Nforce2 chipset). I have the lastest Bios version. The CPU is an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ Mobile and I have 512Mb of Geil PC3200 Ram.
Up to now, I haven't been able to see some nice graphics with this card. Basically, after having installed it physically, I have reinstalled Windows XP Pro on my system partition, installed the Nforce system drivers, rebooted, installed the Nvidia graphic drivers. I have tried the drivers coming with the installation CD as well as the latest official ones and some non-official ones. This doesn't change anything to my problem: everytime that I boot my computer, everything runs fine... Windows begins to launch... the speed of the graphic card fans slows down and I get to the first prompt (the windows page showing the different users). This page is very badly displayed: sometimes it's just a blue page, sometimes it is almost normal, sometimes it isn't even displayed and the computer reboots. Anyway, with or without clicking, I am forced to reboot. Note that without drivers or running windows in VGA mode doesn't generate problems.
-My system memory doesn't seem to be the problem: I ran Memtest a night without errors.
-The card seems to be fully functional: the card was installed in another PC in a computer shop and would run a 3DMark05 test without problems.
-I don't think it is a power related issue: I tried all the molex connectors of a 300W PSU with minimal hardware connected on it.
-I don't think it's a software related problem: different drivers generate the same problem, as well as running a live version of Linux (Knoppix).
So I would suggest that the problem is related to the motherboard. I have never had problems like this with any of my ATI radeons on this motherboard before. I have changed almost all the parameters I could change in the Bios without improvments. I don't really know if the IRQ mentioned in the user guide is that important. When booting, the card seemed to have IRQ10 as well as 2-3 other components. When I boot in VGA mode, windows tells me it has IRQ19. I don't know if it is of importance... Perhaps my Soltek Motherboard is simply not compatible with my motherboard!
I have already spend a lot of time trying to fix this problem and cannot find help on the net. I have contacted BFG by email a couple of days ago with no success yet. So I thank you in advance for your help and suggestions.
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