ATI running on Nvidia Chipset?

[Energinerbuzzy]

I posted this topic in anothe forum. http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1789156&enterthread=y
Everyone seemed to agree that it would not be a compatibility issue.

Well I went out and bought the X1900XT ATI card and I'll be damned if i can get it to work right. I installed the drivers and card, then My onboard gigalan ports stopped working. TCP/IP is not enabled and won't let me enable it. I went in to BIOS and checked the lan cable and show a short on to of the leads. I have replaced the cable but I think its a short on the board. Also I now have 4 Lan connections one of them is a PCI-E ethernet connection? I have reinstalled Windows on another partition to see if I could correct the problem. But I get the same errors. Also There are large orange and red bands that flicker across the screen when windows boots up or i open a program. So I thought maybe the card was bad. I took it back and exchanged it. Reinstalled the new card and have the same problems.
I also ran 3dmark05 and scored 10625. I had scores in the 13500 range with my 7800GTX. Something is very wrong I fear.

Anyone have any Ideas?

 

[dalearyous]

hmmm, thats a good question. i was wondering myself, if you going to get 1900xt is it better to get radeon mobo chipset to match it? common sense tells me no.

your 1900xt card should work fine in that board with no problems. have you updated the bios?

 

[Matt2]

Your X1900XT should not care it is running on an NForce board. If it does, ATI is bad, bad company.

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

Originally posted by: Matt2
Your X1900XT should not care it is running on an NForce board. If it does, ATI is bad, bad company.

Or, Nvidia is a bad, bad company

 

[5150Joker]

I'm running an X1900 XTX on a DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI-DR board and it runs perfectly. Seems like user error to me, maybe you should have a professional install it for you.

 

[dalearyous]

if professional you mean the guys at a tech shop etc... i would not recommend that. im assuming he know what he's doing

only other thing i could recommend is to start over. open the case up and check all the connections etc... then format at install windows again. if you still got problems test your memory and cpu before blaming the vid card.

 

[Energinerbuzzy]

Originally posted by: dalearyous
if professional you mean the guys at a tech shop etc... i would not recommend that. im assuming he know what he's doing

only other thing i could recommend is to start over. open the case up and check all the connections etc... then format at install windows again. if you still got problems test your memory and cpu before blaming the vid card.

I did a complete reformat and fresh install of windows and reinstalled the card already, same problems. Memory and CPU ran flawlessly with the 7800GTX that I took out.

 

[Capt Caveman]

What Nvidia drivers have been installed? Hopefully, just the core chipset drivers and no video drivers. I've used a x800xl on several nf4 chipset motherboards and no issues.

 

[dalearyous]

i dunno man, sounds like a freak thing. since you started having problems, have you put the 7800gtx back in? did it run fine if u did? its possible that during uninstall/install of new card first time something happened to the mobo.

 

[kmmatney]

I guess would be power supply, but it looks like you have a good one.

I bought a 6600GT a while back that simply would not work with my motherboard. It worked in all other motheroards I tried, and conversely all other video cards worked with my motherboard. They two just did not work together. and both were NVidia chips. I was never able to figure out why - I've been building systems for 20 years. I ended up getting a new video card and motherboard.

 

[pol II]

Try running Driver Cleaner to remove the remnants of any NVIDIA video drivers.

 

[Elfear]

Dumb question but are all the extra power connectors on the mobo being used? Is the 6-pin power connector hooked up to your card? I'm also using an X1900XTX with an Nforce mobo with no problems. Have you tried the latest bios?

On a side note, are you sure you got 13,500 in 3DMark05 with one 7800GTX? Because that beats the pants off of the world-record holder if you did.

 

[BFG10K]

First of all, is this a legit copy of Windows?

Secondly have you got the latest BIOS and chipset drivers for your sytem?

Thirdly, are you overclocking anything?

 

[xtknight]

Who knows. I'm running an NVIDIA card on an A8N-SLI Deluxe and my Silicon Image ethernet controller basically died too. In the BIOS mine says FAIL. So it's not related to the ATI card I don't think. Just the motherboard being retarded. Just use the NVIDIA ethernet controller instead.