The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

I'm sure I've seen this before, but it's been years. I take it the problem hasn't resolved itself after a reboot?

 

spamual,

I don't see how being it still the same forceware (93.71) I've used since shortly after I bought the 7600GT! I uninstalled it with driver magician, and reinstalled it and I still have the same problem???

sammorris,

That's the strange thing. Normally XP-Pro and SP2 sets the proper screen resolution, and this time it didn't. I had to install the Forceware in order to get 1680x1050!

Thanks,
Russ

 

Do you have any desktop-enhancement software installed, e.g. WindowBlinds?

 

sammorris,

I have koolbits enabled, but the card is running at the default settings at the moment!

Russ

 

I don't know what koolbits does I'm afraid...
Are your DirectDraw / DirectX settings correct?

 

how about the newest drivers russ?

 

Drivers don't tend to suddenly go bad - if he's reinstalled the version that always worked, the problem must be external.

 

no harm in trying

 

sammorris,

Koolbits is an enhancement to the Forceware that allows for overclocking and more advanced settings. I go it from nVidia with the 93.71 forceware. It's from Guru3D!

Spamual,

Not something I would be comfortable doing. I called nVidia earlier and their recommendation for my specific card, is still the one I'm using. I even downloaded a fresh copy. What's strange is plug and play didn't pick up my monitor, and it always has before. It always finished up at the correct resolution, and now it doesn't! Same disks of XP-Pro and SP2 that I've been using all along! Very strange as I got no error messages when installing XP-Pro!

Puzzled,
Russ

 

well its up to you, but no harm in trying. hopefulyl it works out for you

 

Russ,

Have you tried a "Restore" at some date when it was working properly?

 

ddp,

Like minds think alike!!!

 

OK Peoples,
It's done it since I did the new install of XP, so there was no restore point. Anyway, I found the problem. I accidentally used the Student Edition of XP-SP2 which is smaller. I located the copy of XP-Pro SP2 that was over 100MB larger and installed it with no problems! Everything is set as before, but no more frames! Thanks for the help guys!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

Glad you got it Russ. You need to read your discs before you just stick them in.... hehehehe. I have the full version, student version, and "update" disc (from when I went back to college) and I always try to use the wrong one.... lol. I finally just stuck the "smaller" 2 in the back of my software folder and haven't made that mistake in some time..

.....gm

 

I have no idea why which version of Windows you use should cause that problem, I'm tempted to say it was just a botched install and now you've reinstalled windows the problem has gone away...

 

sammorris,

This was the Student Edition w/SP2. It's 488MB and the Full XP-Pro w/SP2 is 581MB. I had problems with the Student Editions before. In fact the computer runs much better all around than it did before, so it wasn't just the frames. Besides I have all my software loaded and nothing gave me any problems. before, there were little glitches here and there that sre gone now. If it botched the install, how come I never got an error message or any notification. Anyway, it's all done and everything upgraded with no problems. It's running like it used to!

Russ

 

Fair enough. One to be avoided then.

 

sammorris,
I've put it on a diet too! I only have 25 programs and about three games installed instead of 40 something. You don't realize all the things you can add and collect in almost 2 years! LOL!! With 2 physical drives it should do things faster reading and writing files. Even my benchmarks went up a bit!

Very Happy Computering,
Russ

 

Yeah, what's funny is that 'new PCs' are only so much faster because they're not filled up with stuff (well, unless you bought a Dell... lol!) - I would like an SSD as that for the most part negates that problem. However, given the fact that one would be guaranteed to fail only a quarter of the way through a byte by byte complete scan, I think I'll pass until the reliability is upped a little.