• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

NEW mobo and proc???

J

jayDSM

Guest
I just upgraded to a DFI lanparty nforce 2 ultra and a xp 2600 333fsb 512 cache and I ran 3dmark and god a horrible score of around 1700. Now before this ona xp 1700 and a shuttle ak39 kt 400 I got around 2400. This is with direct x 9.0b, all updates (including SP1). The video card is using the drivers that came on the CD becaue I cant upgrade to anything more then that (never could). This is total crap you guys have any ideas???
 
this was on 3dmark03. Oh and also when I just installed everything it said my processor was an athlon xp 2000+, so i went into the bios and changed the FSB from 133 to 166 and now on "right click my computer>properties" it says athlon xp 2600+ @ 1.92 GHZ, but when i opened 3dmark it said AMD duron 1920mhz. So im lost and need help?? please?
 
Can't you go to ATI's site and d/l the latest drivers for your Radeon 9600?
 
OK i went to ATI site and got the newest driver for my card installed it. Rebooted and it said some thing along the lines of the "the ati control panel will now exit becasue no ati driver is installed or it is not working properly..." so i guess its back to the regular drivers off the CD.
 
hmm...try going into device manager and uninstall the device. reboot. then try installing the drivers again?
 
Ive tried that already I got cat 3.9's to 4.2's form the ATI site and from guru3d . Also I tried getting new drivers when i first got the card about a year ago and its never been able the get new drivers, I guess the card is just gay like that. but I got the old scores on the same drivers (ones right off the cd) so I dont think its the only thing causing the low score.
 
Nope not at all. Anymore ideas? The last time I ran 3dmark was right before I got my new stuff and formatted so it wasnt a long time ago.
 
Look in the utilities section at guru 3d and get and try the driver uninstaller for your vid card, then try to update your driver again.
 
Did that again as I have many times....didnt work. The scores I got before were with the same vid card drivers so I dont think its that, mabey mobo/proc. related??
 
remove the drivers in using add remove. then boot to safe mode.


go to vga and remove it. Boot up normal and hit cancel on driver install.

The rig will boot up in basic VGA mode. The run the catalyst driver.

once youve done that reboot. IF scores still suck you have one of the old cores and you will have to go to device manager

Click on the radeon and select update driver and browse to the ati folder on c drive. Your done...............

good luck let us know if that works it should.

I have be playeing with video cards for years and have had just about every card on the market at one time or another.

By the way make sure your cmos is setup correctly. VGA palat snoop off, bios shadowing off, agp/pci preference set to agp

Agp aperature 128 or at least 64 meg I am an Intel platform guy buy I have played around with some AMD rigs for friends.

If your working with a Via chipset the 4- 1 drivers can get squirley so make sure you run lates on those as well
 
I see your using nforce. Go to that site as well and make sure you have the latest chipet inf. XP wont have a clue how to properly leverage the Nforce unless you provide an inf file.

Sorry about the Via suggestion I did not totaly read rig specs.
 
I would try this...(Assumes you have WinXP...although most steps will be the same for Win9x)

Assuming that when you try to update the drivers you run the .EXE that you download from ATI or Guru3D. If you take a look you should have an ATI directory on your C: drive. In that directory you should see a directory called SUPPORT. Inside the SUPPORT directory there should be a directory for anything ATI that you have tried to install.

For example I have this directory on my computer:
C:\ATI\SUPPORT\wxp-w2k-catalyst-7-97-031212a-013118c\Driver\2KXP_INF

Inside the wxp-w2k(blah blah blah) directory sits all the install files for the ATI drivers. This includes the ATI Control Panel and WDM drivers, so forth and so on. There's also a folder called DRIVERS. Inside the DRIVER folder is a SETUP.EXE which you can run and install ONLY the drivers for your vid card. It will not install the Control Panel and will not install the WDM. My reason for making you aware of these locations, if you weren't already, is so that you can try something else to install newer drivers.

Open device manager. Expand the Display Adapters. Right Click on your Dispaly Adapter that's listed. Should be ATI 9600 or something to that affect.

Select -> Update Driver...
Select -> Install from a list or specific location...
Select -> Don't search. I will choose the driver to install.
Click on -> Have Disk
Click on -> Browse...

Browse your way to the Directory above. Notice that the wxp-w2k(blah blah blah) directory is based on what driver set you are trying to install. Select the CX_13118.inf (this .inf also depends on the version of drivers you have unpacked in the ATI directory) and click on Open. It should display a list of available cards. Select yours and follow the prompts from there. It should install the driver without the Control Panel and without the WDM drivers.

This should at least get you running newer drivers. After that you can always try to reinstall the drivers using the normal way. I hope some of this was at least a little bit helpful.
 
tahts really wierd that it lists ur proc as a duron...update ur bios...the drivers that come with arent too hot...i updated my a7n8x nforce2 board day i got it and its a gem...make sure all jumpers are set as they should be on the board and run through cmos again...uve gotta be missing something if it says u got a duron
 
Have you installed your nforce 2 forceware motherboard drivers yet?

uninstall the catalysts, go to nvidia's site, download the forceware chipset drivers (3.30's i think), install them, then install the catalysts and see if its any faster.

Bytw, 3dmark thinking the barton core XP = duron is normal.
 
OK guys ill try those ideas. I have alreadygot the newest nforce drivers. Ill update the bios and make sure all the jumpers are correct. thanks for all the help.
 
Well I didnt do the bios update yet but i turned on some features in the bios cant remeber the names (there were 3 things) too lazy to restart and see what they were. I got my score up too 2494 so im happy but not totally satisfied. Also on 3dmark it said sideband addressing or somethig to that effect is disabled, so what is it and how do you turn it on.
 
SBA in 99.9% of cases isnt worth the effort of turning it on, or off, unless you're having compatability issues.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top