Help! Installed evga 7900GS and have issues!

crossed_wires · 07-17-2007, 12:30 PM

** Sorry for the long post. This is driving me nuts! **

Hi all - I upgrade my video card last night (evga 7900GS KO) and had some
wierd conflicts. This is the gist of it after I physically installed the card:
1)BIOS Checksum Error --- I thought this meant that a file was corrupted...not sure.
2)Checked BIOS - looked ok -- loaded WinXP
3)Installed NVidia driver (v90.24 I believe) and control panel app.

**Ran 3dmark01 successfully**
**Ran 3dmark05 and it crashed near the end (card was NOT overheating @ ~59C) -- it gave me that whole windows message "Do you want to send feedback yes/no". The NVidia control panel app crashed and gave me this message also.

I was scratching my head. Ran Oblivion (HD lighting, 1400x900 HIGH Settings) and foreground (dirt, grass, etc) was PURPLE! *** is that about? It looked like my guy was tripping on acid or something...Exited out of the game.

4)Noticed that internet connection was down, so I opened device manager.
5)Saw the yellow ?'s next to "PCI Bridge" and "SMI Bus Devices" --- solved this by making them rollback to previous drivers. Not sure why this happened...driver conflict from video card? Wierd b/c I had a 7600GS in the same pci-e slot until about a week ago. Not even totally sure what those devices pertain to.
6)Noticed that "Ethernet" controller in the device manager was not working. Tried to rollback to previous driver and it said there wasn't one to resort to. Tried using the new hardware wizard as it kept popping up like I had just added something...it couldn't find a driver on the Windows CD and it couldn't connect to the internet to try and find one. My "Windows" CD is just a system restore disk as it's a Gateway comp, although the mb, cpu and RAM are all that remain of the original comp.
7)Inserted SBC install disk (we have SBC yahoo dsl) to try and reinstall the ethernet device....besides being ridiculously slow, it didn't work.

What do you think? I hope it's not an incompatibility with my mb, but that wouldn't be a real expensive fix as I could probably pick up a decent used socket 939 mb for under $50.
My psu can't be going bad...well, I guess it could be, but it's a good one and I've had it less than a year. I wonder if the ethernet port of the mb got nuked? Or whether it's a wierd IRQ conflict, but why didn't I have issues with the 7600GS which previously used this same slot w/ the same Nforce driver?
Thanks for reading and hopefully giving me some ideas. I got too frustrated last night and just went to bed.

-Ryan

dai · 07-17-2007, 01:10 PM

put your specs into here and check you have sufficient power
http://www.extreme.outervision.com/p...ulatorlite.jsp
based on a quality supply and add 30% to the end result

crossed_wires · 07-17-2007, 02:19 PM

Thanks. I actually used that calculator and it said I need 335w. I have a 500w Antec Smartpower psu that's less than a year old, so I doubt that's the problem.
I may just need to reinstall Windows via the Gateway restore disk. Times like this make me wish I had a full version Windows cd.

**Deleted090308** · 07-17-2007, 02:23 PM

It could be the card - evga has had problems with the 7900's.

crossed_wires · 07-17-2007, 04:51 PM

I'm going to use the restore disk tonight (after backing things up) and physicaly remove the Audigy 4 sound card and 7900GS cards, to have it as it was when I bought it. Then I'll just try installing the card again. If I still have issues, at least I'll know that it's the card and there is a warrenty on it.
It was probably time for me to do a fresh install anyway...

07-17-2007, 12:30 PM	#1 (permalink)
crossed_wires Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 3 OS: Windows XP Media Center 2005	Help! Installed evga 7900GS and have issues! Sorry for the long post. This is driving me nuts! Hi all - I upgrade my video card last night (evga 7900GS KO) and had some wierd conflicts. This is the gist of it after I physically installed the card: 1)BIOS Checksum Error --- I thought this meant that a file was corrupted...not sure. 2)Checked BIOS - looked ok -- loaded WinXP 3)Installed NVidia driver (v90.24 I believe) and control panel app. Ran 3dmark01 successfully Ran 3dmark05 and it crashed near the end (card was NOT overheating @ ~59C) -- it gave me that whole windows message "Do you want to send feedback yes/no". The NVidia control panel app crashed and gave me this message also. I was scratching my head. Ran Oblivion (HD lighting, 1400x900 HIGH Settings) and foreground (dirt, grass, etc) was PURPLE! * is that about? It looked like my guy was tripping on acid or something...Exited out of the game. 4)Noticed that internet connection was down, so I opened device manager. 5)Saw the yellow ?'s next to "PCI Bridge" and "SMI Bus Devices" --- solved this by making them rollback to previous drivers. Not sure why this happened...driver conflict from video card? Wierd b/c I had a 7600GS in the same pci-e slot until about a week ago. Not even totally sure what those devices pertain to. 6)Noticed that "Ethernet" controller in the device manager was not working. Tried to rollback to previous driver and it said there wasn't one to resort to. Tried using the new hardware wizard as it kept popping up like I had just added something...it couldn't find a driver on the Windows CD and it couldn't connect to the internet to try and find one. My "Windows" CD is just a system restore disk as it's a Gateway comp, although the mb, cpu and RAM are all that remain of the original comp. 7)Inserted SBC install disk (we have SBC yahoo dsl) to try and reinstall the ethernet device....besides being ridiculously slow, it didn't work. What do you think? I hope it's not an incompatibility with my mb, but that wouldn't be a real expensive fix as I could probably pick up a decent used socket 939 mb for under $50. My psu can't be going bad...well, I guess it could be, but it's a good one and I've had it less than a year. I wonder if the ethernet port of the mb got nuked? Or whether it's a wierd IRQ conflict, but why didn't I have issues with the 7600GS which previously used this same slot w/ the same Nforce driver? Thanks for reading and hopefully giving me some ideas. I got too frustrated last night and just went to bed. -Ryan

07-17-2007, 01:10 PM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,185 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: Help! Installed evga 7900GS and have issues! put your specs into here and check you have sufficient power http://www.extreme.outervision.com/p...ulatorlite.jsp based on a quality supply and add 30% to the end result __________________

07-17-2007, 02:19 PM	#3 (permalink)
crossed_wires Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 3 OS: Windows XP Media Center 2005	Re: Help! Installed evga 7900GS and have issues! Thanks. I actually used that calculator and it said I need 335w. I have a 500w Antec Smartpower psu that's less than a year old, so I doubt that's the problem. I may just need to reinstall Windows via the Gateway restore disk. Times like this make me wish I had a full version Windows cd.

07-17-2007, 02:23 PM	#4 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: Help! Installed evga 7900GS and have issues! It could be the card - evga has had problems with the 7900's.

07-17-2007, 04:51 PM	#5 (permalink)
crossed_wires Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 3 OS: Windows XP Media Center 2005	Re: Help! Installed evga 7900GS and have issues! I'm going to use the restore disk tonight (after backing things up) and physicaly remove the Audigy 4 sound card and 7900GS cards, to have it as it was when I bought it. Then I'll just try installing the card again. If I still have issues, at least I'll know that it's the card and there is a warrenty on it. It was probably time for me to do a fresh install anyway...