Well like the title says, I've recently had my A+ Cert friends put together a wicked machine from BRAND-NEW parts, and it just fails to do anything 3D.
Here's a summary of my system.
I'm on an AMD 64bit 3200 1st-gen (1Mb cache), on an MSI K8N Neo-FSR motherboard, with 1Gb Kingston RAM, PSU is a 550watt, the card's only got 1 slot for a power dongle, which is only attached to the video card and nothing else, nothing else installed on there except for my keyboard, HD, Floppy, mouse and monitor, nothing in PCI slots, all updated drivers, even tried newer drivers from guru3d.com, nothing works. I read the previous posts about the 6800 GT and tried most of the stuff they suggested in there, even checked the BIOS on my mobo and my GPU, both are current. I tried the devault voltage on my card (1.50) tried it at 1.60 too but no dice. I grabbed Rivatuner and Powerstrip, but didn't toy with any of the settings, the card isn't overclocked at all, all the clocks are factory default (350/1000 I think). In my system BIOS I believe I have the AGP3.0 at 4x/8x, the AGP2.0 option is greyed out and locked in "Auto" maybe that's the problem though I can't modify it any. Fast-Writes was auto, now disabled. I tried playing around with the AGP Aperture (sp?), setting it at 64Mb/128Mb/256Mb/512Mb, none of the settings seem to help any. I heard there was a conflict with 64bit CPU's and SP2 so I tried removing that as well, no luck there. I've got 2 HD's set up, one with SP2 one without, and they both get this same problem. I had at least 5 techs look at it and they're all completely stumped. I tried phoning PNY too, but no one's answering
Now here's a description of the problem.
Booting up, I don't run into any problems at all, the screen looks fine, the system is up and in windows in no time, but as soon as I get INTO windows, I experience random artifacts, little discolored pixels on my screen, they'll come and go if the window is ever refreshed. It's most apparent whenever I drag my mouse across the desktop, like to highlight multiple icons, and also very apparent whenever I scroll up and down in any webpage. Eventually, if the screen gets garbled up enough, the entire computer locks up for a good half minute, and then the screen flickers black and then everything's normal again, that is normal and getting all these graphical glitches.
If I ever try and run anything 3D, the graphics will become completely garbled for a good half-second, before the system locks for the same familiar half minute, go garbled for another half second, lock for half a minute, etc. This goes on for a few minutes before the system gives up and goes into a BSOD, before rebooting itself.
What's most confusing is that one of my friends has a nearly identical system, same mobo same card same CPU, and he runs fine, even with dual monitors.
I've been stressing over this problem for a while now I'd really appreciate whatever help I can get.
Here's a summary of my system.
I'm on an AMD 64bit 3200 1st-gen (1Mb cache), on an MSI K8N Neo-FSR motherboard, with 1Gb Kingston RAM, PSU is a 550watt, the card's only got 1 slot for a power dongle, which is only attached to the video card and nothing else, nothing else installed on there except for my keyboard, HD, Floppy, mouse and monitor, nothing in PCI slots, all updated drivers, even tried newer drivers from guru3d.com, nothing works. I read the previous posts about the 6800 GT and tried most of the stuff they suggested in there, even checked the BIOS on my mobo and my GPU, both are current. I tried the devault voltage on my card (1.50) tried it at 1.60 too but no dice. I grabbed Rivatuner and Powerstrip, but didn't toy with any of the settings, the card isn't overclocked at all, all the clocks are factory default (350/1000 I think). In my system BIOS I believe I have the AGP3.0 at 4x/8x, the AGP2.0 option is greyed out and locked in "Auto" maybe that's the problem though I can't modify it any. Fast-Writes was auto, now disabled. I tried playing around with the AGP Aperture (sp?), setting it at 64Mb/128Mb/256Mb/512Mb, none of the settings seem to help any. I heard there was a conflict with 64bit CPU's and SP2 so I tried removing that as well, no luck there. I've got 2 HD's set up, one with SP2 one without, and they both get this same problem. I had at least 5 techs look at it and they're all completely stumped. I tried phoning PNY too, but no one's answering
Now here's a description of the problem.
Booting up, I don't run into any problems at all, the screen looks fine, the system is up and in windows in no time, but as soon as I get INTO windows, I experience random artifacts, little discolored pixels on my screen, they'll come and go if the window is ever refreshed. It's most apparent whenever I drag my mouse across the desktop, like to highlight multiple icons, and also very apparent whenever I scroll up and down in any webpage. Eventually, if the screen gets garbled up enough, the entire computer locks up for a good half minute, and then the screen flickers black and then everything's normal again, that is normal and getting all these graphical glitches.
If I ever try and run anything 3D, the graphics will become completely garbled for a good half-second, before the system locks for the same familiar half minute, go garbled for another half second, lock for half a minute, etc. This goes on for a few minutes before the system gives up and goes into a BSOD, before rebooting itself.
What's most confusing is that one of my friends has a nearly identical system, same mobo same card same CPU, and he runs fine, even with dual monitors.
I've been stressing over this problem for a while now I'd really appreciate whatever help I can get.
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