tdawg
Platinum Member
Hello All,
I'm having a bit of trouble with my computer and I'm hoping someone will be able to help. I recently upgraded my processor to an Opteron 165. In order to get the motherboard to recognize it, I had to update the BIOS; the board is an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum Nforce3 motherboard. After upgrading the bios, I get some warning about IRQ resources that I'm connecting to my graphics card failures.
Ever since flashing the bios, Vista RC2, which was working great with the Athlon64 3000+ installed, no longer recognizes my GPU and reverts to either VgaSave, or a failed X850 driver report. The driver keeps reporting back to the OS that a component has failed and it is disabling it. This occurs with both the default windows driver and the current vista driver from ATI/AMD. When I tried reinstalling XP MCE, the computer goes into a start-restart loop in the middle of trying to install Nforce drivers if it lets me get that far, or just decides to start this during the install and always fails in the same spot of the install.
At this point it seems I can choose to either have a functioning processor or a functioning graphics card. I can use my computer with either, but at reduced function, of course.
Anybody have any ideas why this might be happening? Anybody else ever have this problem? I know the equipment is kind of old, but it's what I have/need at the moment.
Specs are:
MSI Nforce3 K8N Neo2 Platinum
AMD Opteron 165
ATI Radeon X850 pro
1.5 gb ram
Vista RC2 32-bit
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Trevor
P.S. How much can I trust the CPU temp reporting in the BIOS? I used the stock heatsink that came with the CPU and it seems to be seated properly and completely, but the temps are being reported between a low of 35C and a high of 49C.
I'm having a bit of trouble with my computer and I'm hoping someone will be able to help. I recently upgraded my processor to an Opteron 165. In order to get the motherboard to recognize it, I had to update the BIOS; the board is an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum Nforce3 motherboard. After upgrading the bios, I get some warning about IRQ resources that I'm connecting to my graphics card failures.
Ever since flashing the bios, Vista RC2, which was working great with the Athlon64 3000+ installed, no longer recognizes my GPU and reverts to either VgaSave, or a failed X850 driver report. The driver keeps reporting back to the OS that a component has failed and it is disabling it. This occurs with both the default windows driver and the current vista driver from ATI/AMD. When I tried reinstalling XP MCE, the computer goes into a start-restart loop in the middle of trying to install Nforce drivers if it lets me get that far, or just decides to start this during the install and always fails in the same spot of the install.
At this point it seems I can choose to either have a functioning processor or a functioning graphics card. I can use my computer with either, but at reduced function, of course.
Anybody have any ideas why this might be happening? Anybody else ever have this problem? I know the equipment is kind of old, but it's what I have/need at the moment.
Specs are:
MSI Nforce3 K8N Neo2 Platinum
AMD Opteron 165
ATI Radeon X850 pro
1.5 gb ram
Vista RC2 32-bit
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Trevor
P.S. How much can I trust the CPU temp reporting in the BIOS? I used the stock heatsink that came with the CPU and it seems to be seated properly and completely, but the temps are being reported between a low of 35C and a high of 49C.
