In article <VMruf.41971$(E-Mail Removed)>, Laban
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Paul wrote:
> >
> > Did you uninstall the previous card's drivers ?
> >
> > Paul
>
> Yes. And when I reinstall the old card I have to reinstall the old
> driver, which must mean that it had been succesfully unistalled
> previously? Incidentally, the old card (Geforce 2) works fine.
>
> /Laban
OK. Maybe Noozer's suggestion is more appropriate then. It could
be that when the driver is installed, the card draws a bit more
power just at that instant.
As for AGP, the I/O supply on the GPU will use 3.3 or 1.5V. The
actual signal level is 3.3, 1.5, or 0.8. A 1.5V supply level is
used to make both 1.5V signals and 0.8V signals, so there is no
need to set the BIOS to 0.8V, even if it were possible. The 0.8V
signal level is created by parallel termination resistors at
the end of the bus, and the resultant voltage divider action
(amplitude reduction). You can try bumping the AGP I/O supply
voltage from say 1.5V to 1.6V - that has helped people occasionally
with stability issues (but it never helped me at all).
If you are not in the mood to buy a new power supply, another
testing option for you, is to pull the current boot drive,
stick in a blank hard drive, install Windows, install Intel
chipset drivers, install DirectX9c, then install some Nvidia
video card driver. If you find that it won't BSOD when you
do that, then you'll have some idea that there is something
flaky on the old boot disk.
The reason I mention the old drivers, is I've messed up a
Windows install before, by leaving too many old drivers
around (got too excited when the new video card arrived).
I think the end result in that case, is I couldn't
get full acceleration going on my card. Testing with a clean
Windows install on a really old spare disk drive, showed
everything worked fine, so I at least know it was the
install at fault. I tried various uninstaller applications
(because that Windows install had three or four different
cards used with it), but wasn't really able to make much
progress. I was surprised to find quite a few old ATI
files in the Windows install, even after all the cleaning
efforts.
I'd suggest trying different versions of drivers, but your
BSOD implies something is pretty busted and in your current
state, it may not help. Nvidia has an archive page available
with old drivers on it. Look at the version of driver that
shipped on the video card CD, and use that to figure out
what later WHQL versions might be good ones to try. Click
the link for your desired OS and have a look around.
http://www.nvidia.com/page/search.html?keywords=archive
HTH,
Paul
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