A problem I cannot remedy.....

[imported_Moses]

The rig

Gigabyte K8NSP mobo (F13 bios)
AMD Sempron 2800+
768 PC 2100 (512 kingston / 256 crucial)
120 gig Maxtor Dimond Max Plus 8
Radeon 9800 Pro (r360 core flashed to XT)
SB Audigy 1
BenQ DVD-RW
MSI 48x CD-RW
431w Enermax Whisper
Windows XP Pro SP2

I used this rig with an asus a7n mobo and a 2400+ and I recently sold the 2400+ and used a mobo lying around (the gigabyte) and bought a Sempron 2800+ for it with the intent on some good overclocking. I loaded up windows fine and it boots great but after I install the nVidia chipset drivers windows freezes on the load screen and will not go into it. I can restart the comp and use the last good settings that worked and it boots up great. I can use the comp, do windows update, and it is even prime stable after about 4 hours but once the nVidia drivers get on there it will freeze every time on the windows loading screen. I tried buying a new mobo (Asus K8N) and the exact same problem is occuring. I even tried using a different 3d card (ATi 9600XT) and had the same problem. I know the hardware is fine becaus eit is prime stable and worked fine on the old mobo and proc setup. Something here is conflicting and I have no clue...

Does anyone have any comments or suggestions as this is starting to get annoying...

 

[Heligrin]

Try updating the bios. Why do you need the chipset drivers if you can use the internet? The internet should not work if you dont have the chip drivers installed.

 

[V00D00]

Sounds like a problem with the video card, not the mobo.

Could be the drivers you are installing, or possible the version if windows is messing with it.

Are they the latest drivers available online? If so, do you have any you downloaded in the past (an older version) you may be able to try?


edit
woops, nevermind. maybe I should ahve read the post better. I thought it said nvidia drivers... as in video drivers.

 

[imported_Moses]

First of all it is my second computer so I am on my main one now; that is how I am on the internet. Also I am installing the nVidia chipset drivers that have nothing to do with my video card so I do not see how it would have to do with the video card drivers considering I haven't even been able to load them up...

Also the bios is the latest version.

I have tried the version of the drivers from the cd and the 5.10 and 5.11 drivers from nVidia

 

[V00D00]

Try taking that audigy card out of there, it could be an IRQ conflict.

Take out all the other cards except the graphics card, then see if it boots up.

 

[Gatt]

Chipset drivers are causing a conflict with something.

Agreed with above poster, look to the Soundcard, most likely source of conflict.

Probably something in the drivers trying to move into an IRQ that the Audigy is taking. Try moving it to a different slot, as most mobo's assign IRQ's by slot these days.

Also make sure you have any Onboard sound disabled in the BIOS possibly it's not playing well with the Audigy.

99% of the time, when something's broken, it's the soundcard. For some odd reason, the least of the components causes most of the problems. Damn thing can even make it look like a video problem by creating symptoms that look like video issues.

Pull the soundcard, try again, if it doesn't crash, put it back in another slot, if it crashes again, replace the card it's probably bad.

 

[imported_Moses]

I used 4.27 instead of 5.11 of the nForce drivers and it worked. For some reason ATi Catalyst COntrol Center does not work though so I can only have the display driver installed, also the computer will not shut down. It just freezes when it says: shutting down. It does this every time without fail. Well atleast I got the darned thing running I guess....