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Electric Boogaloo
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- Apr 17, 2005
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So a few months ago my 7900GT started giving me blue, red, and green pixels when I was scrolling or moving windows around on the desktop and it would totally kirk out when I was gaming, artifacting was plentiful. I figured something was going wrong with the card and I wanted a new one anyway so I bought an ASUS brand 3850 to replace it, which arrived today (really really quickly btw, kudos newegg)
I tried the drivers that came with the card, no dice. Gave me an error message during the install but still completed it. When I restarted it froze at the Windows XP screen with the status bar. Waited for half an hour and nothing changed so I hard restarted and chose to start up with the last working settings, integrated graphics which I'm using right now.
So I decided to get the latest drivers (ver 8.6) and CCC software suite off the ati/amd site, same sort of deal. Error message during installation and freezing upon startup. So then I tried the 8.5 drivers and those wouldn't even make it through the installation before it froze up. So as a last resort I did the basic 8.6 drivers without the CCC and it did the same thing.
I'm running XP pro 32 bit SP2
Asus P5SD2-X motherboard with 4Gb DDR2 (though 32bit windows only sees 3Gb of it) and a socket T Pentium D. I have a 500W antec PSU which should power everything well enough, yeah?
Are there any compatibility issues with what I'm running that I missed out on? Is the card DOA or maybe I damaged it while I was putting it in the case? I got a warranty for it so if that's the case no biggie. I'm going to try installing SP3 to see if there's a difference but any tips tricks or help would be appreciated.
I tried the drivers that came with the card, no dice. Gave me an error message during the install but still completed it. When I restarted it froze at the Windows XP screen with the status bar. Waited for half an hour and nothing changed so I hard restarted and chose to start up with the last working settings, integrated graphics which I'm using right now.
So I decided to get the latest drivers (ver 8.6) and CCC software suite off the ati/amd site, same sort of deal. Error message during installation and freezing upon startup. So then I tried the 8.5 drivers and those wouldn't even make it through the installation before it froze up. So as a last resort I did the basic 8.6 drivers without the CCC and it did the same thing.
I'm running XP pro 32 bit SP2
Asus P5SD2-X motherboard with 4Gb DDR2 (though 32bit windows only sees 3Gb of it) and a socket T Pentium D. I have a 500W antec PSU which should power everything well enough, yeah?
Are there any compatibility issues with what I'm running that I missed out on? Is the card DOA or maybe I damaged it while I was putting it in the case? I got a warranty for it so if that's the case no biggie. I'm going to try installing SP3 to see if there's a difference but any tips tricks or help would be appreciated.