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Geek Culture / 8800 GTS Problem PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!

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halospree
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Posted: 7th Oct 2007 08:09
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I have had my 8800 GTS running in my computer for around 100 days, and is has been running perfectly... Until today... when i bought 4GB of Ram for my comp, i intalled it ran bios checked everything... then when i logged in on Windows Vista x64 Ultimate it was runnin in a 800 by 600 res while i had a 21 inch which ran 1680 by 1200!! System SPecs are the following:
Athlon X2 4200+
8800GTS
4 GB of A-Data Link Ram DDR
570 watt power supply
8800GTS
X-Fi xtreme gamer Sound Card
250GB Hard drive

and yea... i "grounded" myself before opening the case and i was wearing a anti-static wrist braslet the whole time...

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dark coder
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Posted: 7th Oct 2007 08:13
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Reinstall GPU drivers? Remove new RAM and try again?

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halospree
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Ive already tried both of those... and when i reinstall GPU drivers is says when the installation begins that "No supported Gefore 8 product has been found on your system" quite aggravating...

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5867Dude
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Posted: 7th Oct 2007 13:42
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I'm not an expert but it could be the power supply. Don't flame me if I'm wrong!
Anyway thats a good pc and a 21 INCH MONITOR!

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SpyDaniel
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Posted: 7th Oct 2007 14:10
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I have never used ESP precautions before and all my hardware works fine.

I have a 8800 VGA Nvidia 320MB card with 4 GB of RAM. I have had no such problems.

The only thing I can think of, is that you might have nudged the GPU and it has come lose in the slot.

I couldn't really tell unless I had a look.

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Raven
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Posted: 7th Oct 2007 14:26
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Quote: "Ive already tried both of those... and when i reinstall GPU drivers is says when the installation begins that "No supported Gefore 8 product has been found on your system" quite aggravating..."


I get that often on my XFX Geforce cards, usually have to install the UK-International driver rather than International or US drivers.

If you're system boots up with the card, and in to Windows then the card itself is fine. Most likely problem is probably the BIOS.. I've found with the newer systems they have been poor compatibility with devices due to bios bugs.

Try uninstalling Forceware, then reinstalling with your locale drivers; or even better from CD if you can. If this still fails then try updating your bios to the most current release.

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halospree
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Thanks for the tip Raven... ill try it out


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GatorHex
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Posted: 7th Oct 2007 16:48
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Quote: "was runnin in a 800 by 600 res while i had a 21 inch which ran 1680 by 1200!!"


i know it's a bit of a bugger to find in Vista (all the menus are crap) but can you not just go to the display properties and change it to 1680x1200?

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Raven
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Posted: 7th Oct 2007 16:55
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Quote: "i know it's a bit of a bugger to find in Vista (all the menus are crap) but can you not just go to the display properties and change it to 1680x1200?"


Some cards that are supported by Vista will still always revert to 640x480x16bit.. It's quite odd that only if you're in safe mode can you do less colours.

Then again it's even more odd that it doesn't force 16bit no matter what given it's been supported by VESA for almost a decade now.

Vista is still useable at that resolution, provided you set the graphics mode to Windows Classic

You want strange though, for almost 2 weeks one of the systems we have here got a new 6200; refused all nvidia drivers for a while, and the Windows driver for some reason wouldn't let it out of 640x480x32bit, only res it supported. Yet when playing DirectX9 games would happily go up to it's max res in either 16/32bit.

Wasn't until about 3-4months back they fixed this WDDM bug with some of the nvidia quick-fixes.

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gamebird
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Does windows aero work? If so then it might be a driver problem. Or it might have over-heated. Or if your ram was secretly overclocked then it will use more power than labeled.
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halospree
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Windows Aero doen't work... as i just woke up here i will be trying to update my BIOS GatorHex when i go to display properties its max resolution it will go up to is 1280 by 1024 which is quite dissapointing view the size of the monitor I have...
Thanks all for helping me

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 8th Oct 2007 05:17 Edited at: 8th Oct 2007 05:18
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Out of curiosity, did you plug your monitor into the integrated video plug on the Motherboard instead of the GPU? I know horribly stupid question, but it's possible. Also it's possible that your BIOS reset to check for integrated video first and isn't detecting your video card?. Eh, just an idea.

EDIT. Is the power supply sufficient? Maybe you are overloading it with the new ram?

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halospree
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No i plugged it in the Video Card not the integrated card slot... i have 570 Watt Power Supply, i would beleive that that is enough for my system, ill try anyways.

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Posted: 9th Oct 2007 05:22
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AGENT Dink YOu Rock MAn I ToOk OUt 2gB of RAm aND NOW It WoRkS!
It waS the PoWeR SuPpLy ! ThAnKs aLl for Helping!!

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Agent Dink
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Well, it may be the power supply but it's also possible that your motherboard doesn't like that many sticks of that certain type of RAM and it's causing conflicts. RAM and motherboards can be a tricky thing, I suggest looking on google and seeing if other people have similar problems with the same brand of motherboard and RAM. But I think it's a good possibility of it being the power supply. Anyhow, glad I could help ^_^ good luck in further diagnostics and let us know what you find out.

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