Help.....(first pc build)

[Cardinal5fanatic]

alright, I have built my first pc. Here are the specs....

Asus A8V Deluxe
Athlon fx-53
1GB corsair ddr
Antec 550 watt true control
WD raptor 74GB
plextor 12x DVD burner
plextor 52x32x52 CD burner
creative labs sb audigy 2 zs
eVGA Geforce 6800 gt
Windows XP pro sp1

After I installed Windows the first thing i did was install the motherboard's drivers.....after that i installed my graphic card's driver......well the next time i booted up my computer was screwed up....my desktop had 2 or 3 weird lines going vertical down my screen and the computer was obviously unstable and after about 3 minutes of my LCD flickering and constant lockups it went to a blue screen and shutdown.....so i spent forever trying to fight through the system and the first thing i disabled was the graphics card to see if it was faulty.....well everything worked fine after i disabled it.....so I got an RMA from eVGA and my new card does the exact same thing after the drivers were installed. I have tried many different drivers....deleting the installed one before i try another one.
Please help....getting really frustrated......

 

[nick1985]

try memtest86. see if your RAM is what is bad.

 

[jpeyton]

Here's the order I go in for a new install.

Install WinXP
Install Chipset Drivers (from Asus or Chipset Manufacturer)
Reboot
Install SP1 (from Windows Update)
Reboot
Install DirectX 9 (from Windows Update)
Reboot
Install Video Card Drivers (from Nvidia)
Reboot
Install All Other Critical/Recommended Updates

Try that.

 

[Cardinal5fanatic]

that is the order in which i installed everything so i dont think my order is wrong.....ill try the memory test

 

[SilentRunning]

Is the monitor's inf file installed?

 

[Cardinal5fanatic]

well i guess i should mention this......i have installed my lcd's driver and i have also tried another monitor (crt) thinking for some reason it was the lcd

 

[Cardinal5fanatic]

crap....i dont have a floppy drive for the memtest

 

[Cardinal5fanatic]

does anybody else have any ideas.......

 

[jpeyton]

if it occurs right after you install the gfx card drivers, try some alternate drivers. try older revisions, beta drivers, try the omegecorner.com drivers, etc.

 

[Cardinal5fanatic]

alright i will give the omega drivers a shot....thanks

 

[Cardinal5fanatic]

one thing i got lazy about was updating my bios for the motherboard......could that have anything to do with the AGP slot being screwy or anything like that?

 

[Jojo7]

Originally posted by: Cardinal5fanatic
one thing i got lazy about was updating my bios for the motherboard......could that have anything to do with the AGP slot being screwy or anything like that?

Possibly. The 1006 version of the A8V bios readme claims "more agp card support".

It's worth a shot.