nvidia 175.16 driver installation issues

sofarfrome

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Apr 27, 2005
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I can't seem to get the drivers for my PNY 9800GTX to install on my Biostar TPowerI45 board. The installation says the drivers were installed but when I reboot it only goes as far as the windows loading screen then dies out (Vista32) If I use XP32 then half way thru the driver installation it goes to the blank screen with a white cursor blinking in the upper LH corner of the screen. Even had a couple of BSODs while trying to install the drivers.

I did everything I know of to remedy this problem to no avail. 2 clean installs each of vista32 and xp32, all power connections secure, all jumpers set correctly, read the manual carefully, card seated well, driver installed after chipset drivers only installed, etc. I completely removed the board from the mobo tray and set it up with one stick of memory and one HD. No LAN and no on-board audio installed or turned on. One hour bios clear, re-flashed the original bios, flashed to a new bios. I used DC-Pro to clean all driver remnants between install attempts. I tried installing over the previous failed install in safe mode. I also tried to install 2 other versions of the driver. I could go on but I was at it for 6 hours. I have posted on 2 other sites so far I haven't recieved a response from anyone (72 people have viewd my posts). So, if anyone has any clue on what is wrong I am all ears...I would like to keep this board.

Is there is an issue with the PCI-e bus perhaps? One shouldn't get BSODs for installing a graphics driver at stock settings. All of the exact same equipemnt is currently running on a DFI Blood Iron and worked previously on an Asus Rampage Formula with absolutely no problems.