Can any of you Nvidia Card experts help me?

[GTCOBRA1]

I built a HTPC using a motherboard with an onboard 6150 Nvidia video chip. The system was 110% stable. Since the motherboard also had a pci-e slot for a video card, I just upgraded to the new Nvidia 7300GS video card. Nvidia video drivers generally being universal for all new cards, I figured windows would find the new card and configure itself using the driver that was there already for the 6150 video chip. No such luck. The found new hardware process went and did it's thing, and ended by saying could not install because no driver for this device found. I'm thinking huh??? OK, so I go to add/delete programs, and delete the video card driver. I then use NV Clean to make sure all traces of the driver are gone. I run the disk that came with the card, install the driver, and all is well........so I think! The PC runs fine all day, and I shut down. When I go to start up later, the PC will not boot! I get as far as the Windows screen with the scrolling bar, and the scrolling bar just stops, and bootup will go no further. I believe the point it stops at is where it should initialize the video card? The only way to get it to boot is to boot in safe mode, delete the video card driver, then reboot, at which time it boots fine and gives me the found new hardware message. I reinstall the video card driver and the PC works great, untill I shut down. Then it will not boot again, untill I go through the whole processes again of safe mode, delete video driver, boot up, reinstall video driver. What's causeing this???? Pleases help!

 

[fliguy84]

have you tried using the latest official driver at nvidia.com? i believe it's forceware version 84.21

 

[DeathReborn]

Have you disabled the 6150 in the BIOS? If not, try that.

 

[CVSiN]

Originally posted by: DeathReborn
Have you disabled the 6150 in the BIOS? If not, try that.

yup sounds like you got both vid cards fighting over whose in charge..

or a conflict..

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: CVSiN

Originally posted by: DeathReborn
Have you disabled the 6150 in the BIOS? If not, try that.

yup sounds like you got both vid cards fighting over whose in charge..

or a conflict..

yeah try this, i would of thought you could run them both at the same time, should be just like running dual graphics cards (no SLI of course) so you can use multiple displays.

but try disabling the 6150 in the bios, this should be in your motherboard manual.

i think it could bt because, both GPU's make use of turbo cache technology...so that may be where things are goin wrong for you

 

[GTCOBRA1]

yes I have tried to disable the onboard video, but I do not have an option for that in bios. The only option bios gives me is which I want to boot first. Naturally I have it set to boot the pci-e slot first over the onboard video. I have looked in device manager under video adapters thinking I could totally disable the onboard 6150 from there, but only the 7300GS shows up in device manager. There are only 2 drivers I have found that support the new 7300GS, the one that came on the disk from Gigabyte, and the latest beta driver on Nvidias site. Their latest "official" driver does not recognize the 7300GS and will not install! Both the Gigabyte, and the latest beta driver from Nvidia work well, but both still will not boot up.

 

[Wreckage]

Will it boot in safe mode? Sounds like the windows driver process screwed up.

You may just need to boot in safe mode and re-install the drivers. (Use the newer drivers from NVIDIA).

You should be able to run both video cards at the same time.

 

[GTCOBRA1]

yes it boots in safe mode everytime no problem. Matter of fact the only way it will boot into normal mode is to first boot up in safe mode, delete the Nvidia video card driver, then re boot and it boots right up into windows, and I get the the found new hardware, vga compatible video device message. I nstall the latest driver off Nvidia's site, everything works great untill I shut the computer off. I go to restart, same problem. Boot-up stops, then I have to go in safe mode and delete driver so I can boot up useing the Windows VGA driver, and then reinstall the Nvidia card driver. This routine gets very old, very fast. Why can't Windows initialize the Nvidia driver during the normal boot sequence????

 

[Crescent13]

Maybe you should just try reinstalling windows?

 

[GTCOBRA1]

lol..... yeah that would probably work, but that's exactly what I'm trying to avoid!

 

[slatr]

Is the board jumperless.. can you disable onboard video on the motherboard itself?

 

[GTCOBRA1]

no jumpers, and bios just gives you a choice of which it will boot first pci-e slot, or onboard video. I have it set to pci-e slot.