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New Built Issues?

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lost0822

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I knew i was to good to be true, i just put this rig together (sig) without any problems but now i'm running into problems, okay here we go. Oh everything is detecting fine on my comp, memory, hard drives and everything went smooth and i'm not overclocking, i never ran memtest or anything though.

1. I download and ran 3dmark03 i got a score of 1913! that's horrible, i was getting just under 10,000 with my P4 2.8c (with same video card)...so i have no idea why that is happening.

2. I installed Doom 3, everything on that works fine, no frame rate problems or anything that i could tell. But then i installed Far Cry something seemed wierd at load up and would kind of freeze here and there before it got to the title screen. Well i turned up my video options to High and when the game starts the first board the graphics look really bad, everything is really bright and the textures look really low and off, even though i have them turned up in the video options.

3. Last thing is i update all my Bios and drviers to make sure that was not it...that did not fix anything as far as 3dmark goes and i also down loaded the MSI utility PC Alert 4 . Well now when i reboot my computer, the MSI PC Alert thing comes up and that annoying alarm is going off! The warning is with in the voltage area, they are as follow:

V.Core=1.42
3.3V=3.3
+5V=5.05
+12V= 2.16 THIS IS THE ONE THAT IS IN RED AND WHY THE ALARM IS GOING OFF!

I went into my Bios and my +12V is coming up as 12.0V....so i'm thinking my PC Alert is off...would'nt my system no even run if it was really as 2.16?

Why is this happening and what can i do? At least how do i make the alarm stop going off do i need to lower the voltage, if so how what't the easiest way to do that...i'm a newb at this....this was my first build and i'm not sure what to do....any help you can give would be great. thanks!
 
First of all, to make the alarm stop going off uninstall that pc alert thing. It's reading your 12v rail wrong, with what it says you would never get into windows.

Next, I would look at your video drivers. Try removing your drivers and re-installing a different version. If that doesn't work, try a different card.
 
Did you download all the newest drivers for your video card and motherboard? If not, grab them right away. Also, get the latest patch for Far Cry, that will help quite a bit.
 
I have the 61.77 driver for my eVGA card from the eVGA site, should i try another one?

I also downloaded the 1.1 patch for Far Cry as well. So i have that.
i have the newest mobo Bios and drivers as well.
 
All i have as another video card is and old nvidia 5200, is that really a good comparison? Plus this card was fine on my old P4 system...and doom looks fine as well. i'm going to try the drivers though.
 
I went home at lunch to try some other things. I unistalled Far Cry for now....i'm going to install it after i reinstall another driver, any suggestions on drivers? i was using the eVGA 61.77, i saw someone posted the omega drivers but it says in their notes that it's not for 6800GT so i can't use them.


I installed Painkiller and that game came up fine and is working rather well, no graphic problems as all and that's a directx game like Far Cry is...i know Doom 3 is not.
 
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