Dalo Harkin

You will get very little benefit from overclocking a GPU unless you have something like a watercooled setup (the amount you have to push the card to get a noticable benefit produces lots of heat) - you gain much better increases from OC'ing the RAM and CPU ;) *****YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS CAN HANDLE THE OC - if you have a cheap MOBO the amount of extra Volts you have to put through the MCH can blow your MOBO***** And with OC'ing the CPU and RAM you get an all round system boost not just games. OC'ing is not something to try just because you have never done it - RESEARCH first and have all the help at hand before you try - I too was an OC'ing Noob at one point :p

Are any of the other drives (CD/DVD or HDD) taking up the drive letter A?

No problem - can you tell me the colours of the sockets on the back of the card you were trying to get to work, or post a pic

Dragon with the games you are trying what is their refresh rate set at - if it's at 60 try changing it to 59 (options allowing)

Hi Jared, welcome - with you on the MMORPG (only GUILD WARS though :D) and strategy :)

Have a look on a site called widescreengaming.com and search for that game it will tell you how to set the game to any resolution - try that and see if it helps. And the drivers I meant are the nvidia ones - are you sure you have the xp ones and not the vista ones from the website :)

1280X800 screen size? I still think its a driver issue - are you 100% they are for the right OS, I know it seems daft but we have to check everything :) Out of curiosity what is the game - Is an MMORPG - that updates itself?

the only think that I can think of that would cause something like that is a corrupt OS - or the memory on the GPU is bad

Thats thrown me - who made the PC - you may have to get in touch with them.

Did you check that the graphics card has both the 6 pin connectors in it? If its crashing at full screen - its:- DRIVERS - checked POWER - hard to check GPU MEMORY - hard to check I know it sounds daft but can you try using an earlier driver if you can access one. and just to check you aren't overclocking anything are you ;)

You can do it in normal mode but it is better in safe mode so that nothing compromises the removal of the drivers.

It's definately a driver issue - You can use the add/remove programs for the drivers aswell as device manager but they still leave little bits all over the place and these can cause problems - hence what you have - from now on whenever you install the new drivers use that DRIVER CLEANER to do is as you will get a COMPLETE removal. you are better off just checking that the ones in the C:/NVIDIA are gone, its if there is more than one in that location you can have major issues. as for us helping - thats what we are here for :) Oh by the way I checked and there should be 2 6 pin cables going into the GPU

If it still doesnt work - just try using the onboard and see if thats ok - or was that what you were using originally?

Ireland he followed a rainbow to a pot of gold and a leprechaun said to him.............

driving bumper cars at high speed............

selling his webs on ebay ;)

Try less USB devices they all need power and the PSU or MOBO may not be up to the job.

Have I got this right as in the CD DRIVE is doing nothing? the power/IDE cable could have just become loose or the CD drive may have just died

does the MOBO have onboard sound? if it does you need to disable that in the BIOS too

Dragon - sorry I was away - I do not do most nights as I have kids :) Ok you need to remove the current and old drivers that you have on the system - these are located in the C drive. They are stored in C:/NVIDIA There will be some numbers 168.00 etc if there are more than 1 thats part of the cause- you need to delete all of them and when that's done run the driver cleaner program that will clear all of the other remnants that are hidden that you cannot remove - when thats all done restart the PC and when it reboots install the newest NVIDIA driver and see whats what. I will in the mean time see if your card requires 2 PCI 6 pin cables or just the one.

Most boards will support the newer chips with a BIOS update - IF the board is a native 1066FSB a BIOS update to support 1333FSB chips will work - but some are better than others. If you are looking to upgrade to a 1333FSB chip you are really better off buying a board that has a native 1333FSB.

Dragon - everyword you put sounds like me ;) well except for the molesting of the components lol - cant you get locked up for that ;)

Hi Thunder - The problem will not be the board - its the best budget one to get at the moment so good choice ;) The problem will be the memory this board only supports PC2-6400, PC2-8500. Do you have any in yours that you can put in to see of it works - you can get 2GB of dual channel Patriot PC6400 from ARIA for £25 Inc VAT.

uninstall ALL old version of drivers - including the manual C:/ NVIDIA ones and then install driver cleaner, run driver cleaner - reboot install the latest NVIDIA driver et voila (fingers crossed) ;)

Use the driver cleaner and install the latest NVIDIA driver - I am speaking from experience with ASUS GPU drivers - they are a nightmare. I have no idea why you are getting that conflict - unless the GPU has an HDMI cable attached as that is an AUDIO and VIDEO stream. try the driver cleaner and also goto C:/ NVIDIA and manually remove all the contents - I am guessing there are 3 or 4 old ones in there and they are conflicting with one another.