I'm having a serious problem here.
I just put together my new rig last week and finally got around to installing everything on Sunday.
I'm running Windows XP Pro on a Core 2 Duo E7200 Wolfdale, gygabyte GA-EP43-DS3L, with the PNY 9600GT that was at CC two weeks ago for $99. My mobo has the most current bios. Edit: Also running 4 gigs of OCZ PC 800 ddr2 ram, temps are stable and quite cool, voltages are stock but solid. The card is hooked up with the PCI-E connector from my Corsair VX 450 PSU. Nothing is OC'ed and there shouldn't be an issue with wattage (the whole thing is probably less than 300 W)
I installed the latest Nvidia drivers and when I went to restart the computer, it froze on shut down. So I restart and it freezes again. I restarted again and went to uninstall the drivers and it froze again.
At this point I thought maybe the drivers were corrupt so I installed an older version, I couldn't uninstall the newest version till there was a working version.
Still freezing, I booted up into safe mode and uninstalled the divers there. No problems. Load back up into Windows and install the older drivers again... and it starts freezing. Uninstall, run driver cleaner in safe mode a few times, reinstall... still freezing. So... I patched full up to SP3, all updates, and then decided to try again. Still freezes.
When there is no driver installed, I have no problems. No crashing, windows runs ok (not great obviously). When the drivers are installed.... random lock ups between 1-5 minutes after boot, hard restart required.
I figure its gotta be a driver/something compatibility issue, and probably fixable with a bios setting or a chipset update (which I haven't tried yet). I just need help finding out what the solution is.
I'm at work so I can't try anything till I get home.
I just put together my new rig last week and finally got around to installing everything on Sunday.
I'm running Windows XP Pro on a Core 2 Duo E7200 Wolfdale, gygabyte GA-EP43-DS3L, with the PNY 9600GT that was at CC two weeks ago for $99. My mobo has the most current bios. Edit: Also running 4 gigs of OCZ PC 800 ddr2 ram, temps are stable and quite cool, voltages are stock but solid. The card is hooked up with the PCI-E connector from my Corsair VX 450 PSU. Nothing is OC'ed and there shouldn't be an issue with wattage (the whole thing is probably less than 300 W)
I installed the latest Nvidia drivers and when I went to restart the computer, it froze on shut down. So I restart and it freezes again. I restarted again and went to uninstall the drivers and it froze again.
At this point I thought maybe the drivers were corrupt so I installed an older version, I couldn't uninstall the newest version till there was a working version.
Still freezing, I booted up into safe mode and uninstalled the divers there. No problems. Load back up into Windows and install the older drivers again... and it starts freezing. Uninstall, run driver cleaner in safe mode a few times, reinstall... still freezing. So... I patched full up to SP3, all updates, and then decided to try again. Still freezes.
When there is no driver installed, I have no problems. No crashing, windows runs ok (not great obviously). When the drivers are installed.... random lock ups between 1-5 minutes after boot, hard restart required.
I figure its gotta be a driver/something compatibility issue, and probably fixable with a bios setting or a chipset update (which I haven't tried yet). I just need help finding out what the solution is.
I'm at work so I can't try anything till I get home.