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Chaintech Nvidia Geforce 6600 Grief

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KaiserBasara

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emachines T3025
3000+ AMD Athlon XP Processor
160 GB Hard Drive
CD-RW 48x Max Write
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX Integrated GPU
DVD 16x Max Read
512 MB DDR SDRAM
10/100 Mbps Ethernet

I finally got this card and had a lot of trouble. In the unpack section, the manual said to install the cd first, so I installed the driver from the disk with device manager. I got a warning sign saying it wasn't compatible, so I didn't reboot the computer (thank gosh). But then I read the software section (later in the book) and it says installing hardware must be done prior to software. So then I auto updated the driver and got it back to Nvidia Geforce4 MX Integrated.

Then I followed the manual to install the hardware. The Geforce4 is onboard, so I didn't have to take it out. I put the 6600 in the AGP slot, plugged in the monitor, and my emachines computer didn't have the big E when it started up. It had that flashing "testing" message that it has when the computer is shut down and the monitor is off. Other than that, it was black, and nothing happened. I plugged the monitor into my onboard graphics card, and nothing happened. Then I plugged the monitor into the onboard and started it up. Nothing happened. The manual didn't seem to help

Then I took out the 6600 and plugged the monitor into the onboard graphics card, and it started up. But how there's a big problem. I have 4 bit colors and a 640 by whatever thingy, like in safe mode, and changing the display settings doesn't help. I even tried double clicking Nvidia Desktop Manager in control panel and it doesn't show up. I rebooted, and the colors didn't come back. The only thing that looks good is the Windows XP sign when it starts up

The graphics card was supposed to be compatible, so I don't know why all this is happening. I don't know how I'm gonna fix it, and I'm even thinking about sending the graphics card back to newegg, because this is a total pain. I've been working on this for over 3 hours
 
did you try disabling the onboard graphics in the BIOS? they may be causing a hardware conflict...
 
I didn't. Right now, I only have my onboard graphics card, so I need to know how to fix that first. I also forgot how to run the bios

If I turned off onboard graphics or get the 6600 driver now, I might never be able to use my computer ever again, because it won't see anything

If I were to turn off onboard graphics and get a new driver, would I do that after installing 6600, or before? The book says install hardware before software, yet it says "Install CD FIRST".In the software section, part of it is drivers, so it seems you should install the driver after the hardware. I don't know.

nwiz, Nvcpldaemon, and Nvmediacenter are programs set to startup with my GeForce4. But I had them disabled before and the graphics were fine. I never really saw a difference. I don't think they were causing the hardware conflict.

There was also a floppy disk in the drive until I took out the 6600, and I took it out because there was the message to take out the floppy disk after I took out the 6600. I don't think that was causing the hardware conflict
 
I went and uninstalled my Nvidia drivers from Add or Remove and the device manager.

I set the bios to go AGP/Onboard instead of PCI since there wasn't anywehre to disable Onboard. I'm not sure why it was on PCI in the first place. Right now, it's set to AGP, since my old card is onboard. Anyways, it reboot, and I made sure it was still set to AGP/Onboard. Then I shut down and installed the graphics card.

Then when I started it up, there was no E. It was pitch black except for the screen test. This is the same thing that happened when I put in the card last time

I took out the card, which was difficult. I was scared it'd break. When I put it in before, it was also hard.

It turns out I also uninstalled the motherboard drivers when I was in Add or remove (that's why i lost internet immediately), so someone got me a motherboard driver on AIM. I burned it, installed it to this computer, and now I'm back online. Did I forget to mention I also got rid of nvidia nforce drivers? I didn't know that was the sound, but right now, I have my sound back

So now what? I'm thinking maybe the card isn't even compatible. When people reccomended me a new card in other forums they didn't tell me any of this hassle would happen.
 
I'd download the newest drivers for both the display and the chipset. Your display driver will be 77.77 and your chipset driver will be the Nforce 5.10 I think. Install those, then try your 6600 video card again. Don't use the drivers off the CD.
 
I have 77.77

When it starts up it says "The system cannot find the file specified. C:\Windows\System32nivide2.nvu"

Right now I tried plugging the monitor into the green thingy that plugs into the DVI adaptor. Same thing happens...no big e

This time I forgot to uninstall the Geforce4 driver first, but that couldn't have been it
 
My other computer doesn't have an agp port, even though it's only 5 years old. So I can't hook up the graphics card. I don't know anyone who's computer I can test my card on

Tell me, do you think my computer wouldn't start up last time because I had the driver to my old card? I don't think this was the case, because having an old driver shouldn't matter. It should have started up even with the monitor plugged into the old card, because it had the old driver

Maybe I should uninstall the old driver, get the new driver, THEN install the card? But then, maybe I won't ever be able to start up my computer again

The guy I was chatting about on how to fix my graphics card said there'd be no point of no return, but there sure was when I accidently got rid of the motherboard driver. If I didn't have another computer to message him and get the motherboard drivers burned, I wouldn't even be here right now
 
I have a Chaintech 6600GT PCI-E. Excellent card. So here is the order I would do things in:

1. Update motherboard drivers
2. Turn machine off
3. Put in 6600 in AGP slot
4. Turn machine on
5. Disable onboard graphics in the BIOS
6. You should be fine, after that, install the drivers for the vid card and you should be set to go. Other then that I don't know what to do if that doesn't work.

Good luck. :D

***EDIT***

And of course, if all else fails, a good ol' reformat and reinstall usually does the trick. That is if you want to go thru with all that. :)
 
In my "Mainboard user guide" there's a section about bios, so it must be for the motherboard. It describies every setting in the bios. But it doesn't say anything about a setting that allows onboard graphics to be disabled. I don't know what I'm gonna do

Another thing, when I start up with the AGP card in, and hold delete, nothing happens. No BIOS. So if I could turn off onboard, it'd have to be before I put in the card

This guy said there was a pin on the agp slot that makes it easier to take the card out. In this picture i'm thinking the pin is the thingy that says "Push Open". I had a hard time reaching for this thing when the graphics card in so I ended up not using it. I tugged it out from the right and. I hope took the card out right so it doesn't get broken. It does take a lot of pressure to pull the card out.
 
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