New ECS GF7050VT-M issues

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Jun 21, 2008
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So after completely destroying a Phenom 9600 BE (What a waste, I didn't even enjoy it when it was functioning), I checked the Fry's advertisement. They were running a deal on an E8400 and some ECS board for $169.99. I immediately hopped in the car, since that was the processor I was looking at to replace it after being disappointed with AMD's new processors. So I get home after picking it up, have a hell of a time with the HSF I purchased but eventually connect everything and think I'm ready to go.

So I fire it up, run through the BIOS and check everything, make some minor changes, and save and exit. Upon entering Windows (Vista-64), my on-board USB ports failed to work, so I switched to a USB controller, which did. At that point I went to install the drivers that came with the board only two find my drive missing. I eventually copied over the set-up folder to a flash drive and upon installation was met with "This OS is not support." Manually downloading correct chipset drivers and audio drivers fails. So I'm without an IDE CD/DVD-ROM, motherboard USB driver support, ethernet, and audio drivers.

In a situation like this I would just reformat, but I'm currently in corporate housing with non of my OS software. Any suggestions? Should I just try and return the board and get a better one? I'm low on cash since I had to replace a failed PSU and now a processor.

My current set-up is:

ECS GF7050VT-M (1333 MHZ)
E8400
4GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 (running at 667)
nVidia GeForce 8800 GT 512
Windows Vista 64-bit
 

Ronstang

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Jul 8, 2000
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I have almost the same setup as you and I cannot get the LAN driver to install or some of the audio. I only tried it on Vista 32 but was wanting to upgrade to Vista 64. I guess it isn't going to work no matter what I do. I guess this motherboard is a complete piece of shit since it won't even work with current OSes that have been out almost 1.5 years. I just checked the ECS website and didn't find any updated drivers for the LAN so I guess I can set up the machine without internet....what is the point? I love it. Vista wants to search for the correct drivers but how is it going to do that with no internet?
 

Jyve

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Jan 28, 2006
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I have a similar setup as well. I'm having a hard time getting the board to see my 8800gt. I'm thinking its a conflict with the onboard video. When I try to install the latest nvidia drivers, it yells at me saying I don't have any compatible devices. I can't even install it manually as there's no display adapter in the device manager. This is on vista ultimate x64 with an e7200. Any ideas?
 

Ronstang

Lifer
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Do you at least get LAN drivers to install? If so please tell me which ones. I think your problem is the fact that you are using a nVidia based PCI-e card and it is conflicting with the onboard video which is also nVidia. I saw this on another board searching for answers to my own issues. I am not sure what the solution is but a quick google should get you at least the same info I found.
 

Jyve

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Jan 28, 2006
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I've been googling all night for this damn thing...Trying everything from connecting the onboard through vga to another monitor and letting vista find it, then disabling it hoping that when the 8800gt was put in it would find it...didn't work.

As to your question. I didn't bother with the sound drivers as I use a headset anyway. As far as lan goes, the device manager showed the lan adapter there, but with the little yellow ! all I did was install the driver from there. When it asked, I just had it browse the cd that came with the board. The root of it, in my case D:/ it took a couple minutes but eventually found the driver. I tried installing the latest nforce chipset drivers first but that didn't work for anything. Just went with the above method. If somehow you got some drivers on there for it, but it still doesn't work, and you try to update the drivers the above way and it says that you already have the current driver...try removing the lan and rebooting. I let vista rediscover it and installed the drivers that way.

Please...anyone out there running this board with an nvidia gpu help a brotha out!
 

villestat

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Oct 17, 2008
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Hi, I had de same problem, but as Jyve said, the device manager helps a lot, just reinstall the drivers from there, make sure you have the motherborad cd loaded. I solved all my driver problems... although I can't make the sound system work as a 5.1 surround sound speakers, but still I can listen to my music =D