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Friend got a KT800 mobo and a 6600GT... having problems..

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Techno

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Hi.

A friend of mine bought a ePox KT880 motherboard to replace his Asus KM400a as well as buying a MSI 6600GT to replace his All In Wonder 9600XT. Its been two days and he isn't very happy. His computer in isn't as smooth as it once was when he opens up word or a cadd program and when he tries to play any game that came from with the card he gets a message telling him that there is either a general protection (spinter cell) or that his card is not compatible with the game (prince of persia). He then tries to run 3dmark 2005 and its like a luck of the draw on when in the benchmark it will crash next (after it looks like its going to start up a new test, nothing happends). Only once did it actually finish and he got a score of 2829. The only game he seems to be able to get working is EverQuest II.

His specs are:
Athlon XP-M 2500+ @ 2261Mhz
1GB of PC2700
epox kt800 mobo
Msi 6600GT agp
Maxtor 120 SATA
400w power supply


Does his problem seem to be the motherboard, video card or both?
 
make sure you have all the latest drivers. from via and nvidia etc. reboot between each of them installing.

a good idea really would of been to do a fresh xp install for a new motherboard, thats what i would of done, but its not a rule or anything. i see the last chipset was also via, so i guess just intalling the new via hyperon 4-in-1 drivers off the website should be a good bet

that 3d mark score is looking on the ball though. xbit only scored a touch over 3k and that'll be with a beasty A64 rig helping it out.
 
Definitely sounds driver related, may want to uninstall then nuke with drivercleaner, and reinstall Hyperions and Det 67.66's. I have had no trouble with this combo on a Master2-Far which is K8T800 based and a XFX 6600GT.
 
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