Graphic card driver problems :(

[yankoz]

Hey everyone, its Yankoz here. A couple of weeks ago, I had a problem about my monitor turning off. I thought it was the Monitor and the Graphics Card as it is a TV. But I use it as my PC monitor and turns out it is well. I just found out that it is in fact nothing to do with the Monitor. Its my Graphics Card Driver. Its a BFG 8800 OC. What happens is that when the operating system boots up the loading screen comes on, and then that it is stops working windows does not come up. I know that its the Driver as I went into Safe Mode. By the way, in Safe Mode the computer works fine and there are no problems at all. I uninstalled the Graphics Card Driver and the problem was solved. The computer worked fine. The funny thing is that this does not happen all the time. Sometimes it will work from the first time, sometimes it doesn't. Also i m running Vista on it but i had the same problem with XP too.

 

Please tell me what I could do to solve the problem. Should I download a different Driver for the Graphics Card? The Driver I am using is the one that was provided with the Graphics Card.

 

Thank you

Edited June 22, 2008 by Goku

[Goku]

Hello and Welcome to FPCH Yankoz. :)

 

How much RAM do you have installed? Also, can you please specify your System Specifications so that we may rule out any hardware conflicts.

 

Ways of locating hardware and other system specifications.

 

How do I find my system specifications?

 

Let us know them as soon as possible. :)

 

-- Goku

[yankoz]

heya,thx for the quick reply,i have 2GB of ram, the specs are

 

q6600 2.4

MSI P7N DIAMOND 775 780I

HDD RAPTOR 74GB 16MB 10,000 SATA x2

BALLISTIX TRACER PC2-6400 2 GB K

gigabit 800watt PSU

BFG GEFORCE 8800 GT 512MB

aslo running vista home Primium

[Goku]

Thanks for the information Yankoz. Can you please download the following driver and see if installing it causes the problems or not.

 

GeForce Release 175

 

Let us know how it goes. Good Luck. :)

 

-- Goku

[Dalo Harkin]

Q6600 :eek: the BANE of my life lol

It will be an issue with the settings in the BIOS.

refer to the other posts related Q6600.

I would recommend that you go into the BIOS and set to 'optimised defaults'

[yankoz]

hey,i think the problem has been resolved,i havent been having the problem in 2days now lol,thats is definatelly an improvement,if it happends again i will look at the driver Goku and also change my BIOS setting to Optimized defaults,thank you very much for your help :)

[Dalo Harkin]

Glad its all sorted -

If there are any driver issues with Graphic cards, its normally because you haven't removed ALL of the old drivers - its best to use the application from either ATI or NVIDIA website to remove ALL of the previous drivers before installing the latest one.

[Goku]

Glad we could help Yankoz. If you have any future problems, you know where to ask. :)

 

-- Goku