Abit IC7G - Leadtek A6600 GT THD - compatibility problems???

[Laban]

Hi all,

I wonder if there are any known compatibility problems concerning the
combination of motherboard ABIT IC7G and the graphic card Leadtek A6600
GT TDH under XP pro?
I can't manage to get the combination work together... When I install
the drivers I get Blue Screen and the computer restarts. Then the
Device Manager displays something like "there are not enough resources
for this device".
I have tried "everything", updated Bios, updated chipset drivers,
deleted "hidden" drivers, reinstalled XP..
Power supply is 300W.
What setting for AGP voltage shall be used in bios, I can select
between 1.50, 1.55, 1.60 and 1.65? I have read something somewhere
about 0.8V being used for AGP 8X?
Any ideas?

Regards,
/Laban

 

[Noozer]

If possible, try a more powerful power supply... 300watt might not be enough
for this card.

 

[Laban]

Yes, I've had some thoughts about that... I have measured the supply
voltages to the card (it has separate connections from the power
supply) and they seem to be stable and at nominal value - which must
mean that the supply is adequate?

 

[Paul]

Hi all,

I wonder if there are any known compatibility problems concerning the
combination of motherboard ABIT IC7G and the graphic card Leadtek A6600
GT TDH under XP pro?
I can't manage to get the combination work together... When I install
the drivers I get Blue Screen and the computer restarts. Then the
Device Manager displays something like "there are not enough resources
for this device".
I have tried "everything", updated Bios, updated chipset drivers,
deleted "hidden" drivers, reinstalled XP..
Power supply is 300W.
What setting for AGP voltage shall be used in bios, I can select
between 1.50, 1.55, 1.60 and 1.65? I have read something somewhere
about 0.8V being used for AGP 8X?
Any ideas?

Regards,
/Laban

Did you uninstall the previous card's drivers ?

Paul

 

[Laban]

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

 

[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

 

[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

Thank you for your comprehensive answer!
I will first try to change AGP voltage in bios to 1.6 V.
Then I will probably try to borrow a more powerful power supply. If that
doesn't do the trick I will try a clean XP install on a blank HDD.
I'll be back with a progress report...

Laban