Installed new vidio card, help needed......

[Stallion]

I just bought a Leadtek FX5900XT so I could see/play Doom3 a little better then I was with my Ti4400. Well now after my install went south I can't play it at all.

Before I started I removed the old drivers from the add/remove program. I then added my card, but forgot to hook up my 4 pin power connector. <-----doh. So I then hooked it up and got back at it.

Well after it boots back up I get the new hardware found crap poping up and I fugure I'm good to go.

Well I put in my CD and start to install my drivers/DX9 and an intel chipset update they have listed... well the intel chipset DL will crap out after a 50% load. So I quit that and go back to my desktop. I see my card tools in my tool bar so I open it up and it shows my card running at 200/400. I new tha twas wrong as I thought they ran at 400/600 or some thing. So I go to my display/advanced properties and see my card listed and my drivers and what not.. I got to Leadtek.com to update the drivers...

Well as the drivers are loading I keep getting the "drivers are older then the ones in use"( or something like that) message. Sure enough, the new ones never load.. I go to Nvidia and try there newest drivers..Same thing... Argggg

So screw it.. I try to play Doom3....

And I am greeted by the error message ....."ERROR: The current video card / driver combination does not support the necessary features"


I then tried to play some CS.. same thing.. I have to play that in software mode.

I tried to un-install again but I keep getting the same thing.

And every time I think I am loading drivers and might have it done I keep getting a "new hardware found" poping up.

I am lost and have no idea what to do. Last time I went from my GF3 Ti200 to my Ti4400 it was a breeze... Now I'm fvcked....

Why do I even bother.....

Anyone?

 

[Munkies123]

wish i could help but im no good at figuring crap out unless i can play around with it anywho good luck

 

[Stallion]

Thanks..

 

[Cawchy87]

http://www.driverheaven.net/cleaner/

should solve your problems. run that, do a reboot and then install freash new drivers.

 

[Stallion]

I saw that in another thread and was thinking that might be the way to go. I noticed it said something about it cleaning out "windows\driver cache\i386 dir. " and I saw that a few times yesterday and didn't know what the hell it was.

I'll give it a try, thanks..

BTW, wha tdoes this mean exactly..."When you click on the dropdown box, than you can choose between the different cab files. Not all the cab files listed there will exist. You only need to clean the driver.cab and if you have a service pack installed than also that cab file".

 

[Lonyo]

Run DX DIag and check things like AGP texture acceleration are enabled.

 

[Keysplayr]

I think the keywords you mentioned are: "I put the CD in". Dont even bother with the manufacturers CD. Go to nvidia's web site and download the latest Forceware driver. It is 61.77.
Download Driver Cleaner (use google to search for it) and run that as per the direction.txt file that comes with it. Reboot. Install 61.77's.

This is the most effective way to change your video card besides reformatting.

 

[Stallion]

Great, thanks for the tips.

And so when I reboot and get all the "new hardware found" messages just ignore those and load the Nvidia drivers and let her rip huh?

 

[3chordcharlie]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
I think the keywords you mentioned are: "I put the CD in". Dont even bother with the manufacturers CD. Go to nvidia's web site and download the latest Forceware driver. It is 61.77.
Download Driver Cleaner (use google to search for it) and run that as per the direction.txt file that comes with it. Reboot. Install 61.77's.

This is the most effective way to change your video card besides reformatting.

That's what I would suggest, too. Especially since you had a card before - it's more than likely you installed OLDER drivers off the CD than were already on your system. I'm not sure why video card drivers are quite so nasty, but mixing up versions and upgrading hardware can cause plenty of problems.

Once you get it running, run some benchmarks to make sure you're getting the right performance, I've upgraded video cards and had my performance tank because of one driver conflict or another a couple of times.

 

[Stallion]

When I went from my GF to my Ti4400 I just swapped cards and never removed anything and it worked fine. Then this time I thought I would do it right and I got the shaft.

That will teach me.

 

[3chordcharlie]

Originally posted by: Stallion
When I went from my GF to my Ti4400 I just swapped cards and never removed anything and it worked fine. Then this time I thought I would do it right and I got the shaft.

That will teach me.

Now wait and see how bad it is if you have to 'downgrade' to a backup card cuz your main one dies

 

[Stallion]

As long as it works that would be fine till I could get a new one. But having one not work worth a shiat sucks.

 

[3chordcharlie]

Originally posted by: Stallion
As long as it works that would be fine till I could get a new one. But having one not work worth a shiat sucks.

I meant trying to get it working properly without flushing out your drivers and such

 

[Stallion]

Yeah, that too.

 

[Delorian]

I'd say your best bet is to try and use registry cleaners/driver cleaners or just a fresh new OS in general. Sounds like its DirectX that has an issue, you might try reinstalling from a different copy of the DirectX installer or rolling back with XP's system restore if you are using XP.

Just some thoughts. Good luck.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Everybody here is giving you the right idea. The way I look at problems like this is to get back to fresh, obviously without rebooting. What I recommend is "Uninstalling" the card in Device Manager, rebooting and letting Windows install the card as a simple VGA Video Card. Run driver cleaner. Then "Uninstall" the card again and reboot. Cancel the Windows Hardware Wizard and run the latest nVidia drivers. Reboot once more and you should be golden.