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[jimmyj68]

Just installed new EVGA 8800 GTS video card. Drivers will not load!! Drivers on supplied CD or from the NVIDIA download page go through the installation process but windows XP doe4sn't know the card is properly installed. It keeps saying new device detected.

Here's what's running;
Intel D965 mobo
2 gig kingston 800 memory
C2D 6600 CPU
Samsung SATAII HD
M-Audion revolution sound card
New GTS 8800 video card

Syetem was up and running with an EVGA 7800 card before the new card. Removed NVIDIA drivers before removing and replacing the video card. Have not been able to install drivers since. Card appears to be working properly as I am using it now with the base windows drivers.

What's up??

 

[Matt2]

Have you tried to manually point it to the correct .dll?

 

[tuteja1986]

this happens when the older drivers weren't uninstalled properly ;*( ... me think you have a driver conflict corruption. You try fixing it ;( or you can go to path of fresh windows xp install. That way always works.

 

[secretanchitman]

driver cleaner, reboot, install 8800GTS/GTX drivers from the cd or from nvidias site (has specific drivers for G80 cards), reboot.

if not, tuteja has the right idea.

 

[jimmyj68]

How does one manually point the software to the correct DLL???? Second question - would a WINXP repair work????

I have "removed" the drivers each time I attempted a new reload. I tried a driver install in safe mode and that didn't work either - I'm going to uplug all USB devices except keyboard and mouse and try it again before resorting to reload of WINXP.

 

[Bill Brasky]

Originally posted by: secretanchitman
driver cleaner, reboot, install 8800GTS/GTX drivers from the cd or from nvidias site (has specific drivers for G80 cards), reboot.

if not, tuteja has the right idea.

Another vote for driver cleaner, reboot, install drivers.

 

[jimmyj68]

I unpluged all USB except keyboard and mouse - things went a little faster and I had hope - but no soup for me. After driver load finished and the required reboot, the install hardware window popped up again so i walked it through the process pointing to the driver file. No go - it says the hardware parameters are wrong????? Could ther be something wrong with the card - electronically?

Oh, and by the way, where does one find a "driver cleaner"/

 

[Captante]

You can download it from here:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3214.html

 

[jimmyj68]

Thanks ---

 

[LittleNemoNES]

I personally do it this way:
Uninstall old drivers, boot into windows safe mode (F5), run driver cleaner pro (in your case pick Nvidia), then reboot into normal windows and install the new drivers. I clean out all my temp folders/files first just to make sure there won't be any conflicts.

 

[jimmyj68]

Well, here's a not so pleasant update. I've tried everything that has been suggested - and here's the scoop -

After following the book in executing a drive cleaner sequence I was faced with the same problem after installing the fresh driver from the NVIDIA web site - 97.02 a 8800 series specific driver. Download and installation went as designed, but there was no driver info available to the vid card. Properties was blank with no info available as to card identity etc.

I then decided to try a XP repair installation. The installation went smoothly until the period of installation of devices. Then the non-microsoft approved software window came up and the program installation froze. This put me in a loop where the WIN XP installation program would keep attempting to restart the installation procedure get as far as the device installation and freeze at the attempt to load driver software for the video device and lock-up.

Wanting to avoid a complete reinstallation of WIN XP and loss of all my stuff. I got a spare 80gig drive that I have with WIN XP installed, hooked up a power and signal cable to the drive, went into bios and made that drive the boot drive and when win XP booted up I then went to the former boot drive and deleted all nividia data and ran Disk Cleanr again. I removed the extra drive, went into bios and restored the original boot order and started the win repair again --- it froze at the driver installation window again.

OK - removed the 8800 card and reinstalled the 7800 card used before. This time the win repair completed (I'm writing this now) and I thought the world was getting rosey , maybe bad 8800 vid card. Got system going, went to NVIDIA and dowloaded and installed the latest driver - - - you guessed it - no driver information no drivers for the vid card. Ive done the Intel board bios jumper bit, no joy. I haven't tried the CMOS battery yet and don't think it will be of any use anyway. Gonna try reflashing the bios next to last that made a lot of adjustments to USB function on the possibliity there may be a USB conflict because I've had some strange video anomalies when using the mouse in the new flight simulator (the main reason for the 8800 card) on the 7800 card.

If a bios reflash doesn't work - I'm stuck! What's up? Could some of the board security functions be blocking the installation of the vid card drivers? And the security functions in the C2D?

 

[Dacalo]

I usually reformat my HD when I install a critical component like a video card.

 

[hemmy]

reformatting for a video card is RIDICULOUS

almost never needed. but jimmy your best bet at this stage would be to reformat

 

[jimmyj68]

Ugh! Yucky Poo! And other appropriate such sayings.

I am terrible at backing up stuff and I'll probably lose all my iTunes tunes.

If I must.

I'll start by reinstalling the 8800 vid card - then I'll take the plunge. If this doesn't work I know where you can get a computer real cheap - but I'm not telling.

 

[jimmyj68]

I ran drive cleaner one more time just to be sure that it does nothing other than remove all files relating to nvidia - which is what it's supposed to do. obviously stray driver fragments is not my problem. What I did this time was at the end of the safe mode step I turned the system off and switched vid cards. After rebooting into windows I went to NVIDIA and downloaded the 97.02 friver. Installed fine - worked not. Windows acts like the card and drivers aren't there.

I'll wait until tomorrow to do a clean reinstall of WINXP. What's left of this evening will be spent trying to save my tunes. I haver rhapsody also but they will redownload all your songs for you. I Tunes says tough - you should have backed up.

Thanks to everyone for their input and help.

 

[Zenoth]

Bring your card to your local store or where you bought it, and ask them to run a test with it, just to make sure, they shouldn't ask a fee for such a basic service.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

create a separate partition for all your files. XP on C:\ and My Documents on D:\

 

[velis]

Just a stupid question, but you DO have the Additional power connector plugged into the card, right?
Also, what are your PSU specs (total wattage, 12V amperage)?

 

[beggerking]

instead of formatting, you should try system restore to the earliest date.. save u some time..

 

[jimmyj68]

It's a step-up directly from EVGA. My only option is a RMA. But, the system is doing the same thing with the previous 7800 card that worked , seemingly - fine before I made the change.

Not knowing the what difference in power draw there is between the 7800GS and the 8800GS - here's the power stats on a Kamaraki II 550watt power supply from Scythe:
+3.3 28A
+5 50A
+12 #1 20A
+12 #2 20A
-12 1A
-5 .8A
+5VSB 2.5A

I must admit I can't reason how power supply output could effect software loading functions. This PSU has two PCIE power connectors.

Before I forget, restore is out because I've tried an XP Win repair and that erases your restore backup files.

 

[Matt2]

PSU shouldnt be an issue unless it's about to blow because 550w with 40a is definately beefy enough.

Everything worked before with the 7800GS right?

 

[jimmyj68]

Right, I experienced some video anomalies when running Flight Simulator with everything maxed but that's to be expected. Otherwise everything was fine, including the latest Nvidia drivers.

I've stalled as long as I can. Format and reinstall of XP Pro begins now!

 

[jimmyj68]

Well, a new day, a new computer. I struggled a bit but now we are up and running with the 8800 firing on all its nvidia software cylinders.

After finally surrendering to the last option - reinstalling WIN XP as someone told me very early in this thread (I could have saved myself a lot of time and trouble), I brought the motherboard up to speed with all the latest drivers and bios, went to nvidia and downloaded the 97.02 driver and it worked like a charm. I'll speculate (guess) that somewhere in the early diddling after upgrading motherboard and cpu almost three months ago with nothing more than a win xp repair - win xp got mad and as soon as i removed the vid card refused to accept any vid card drivers again. I can't explain it but that's what was happening. A clean formatted hard drive and fresh installation of win xp fixed the problem. These machines have a mind of their own.

Thanks again to all who lent a hand.

 

[imported_RedStar]

YAY! I am always very glad when a problem is solved. In this case, i bet you are more glad than i