Danhill

I just switched my mobo for the Asus P4P800-E Deluxe. Now when I boot up there are small dots and lines appearing on the screen, when I'm in Windows things gets alot worse, everytime I touch the mouse or I open up a program I get more dots and lines and distortion and the screen flickers and after a while the pc reboots, I checked my temps and they are just fine, 48 - GPU 30 PCB, I have the card at 350/1000 just in case.

The strange thing is that if I unistall the the Forceware, the problem is almost gone in Windows, but in the boot screen the problem is still there, I have tried different sets of Forceware, 71.84 and 71.89 both giving the same problem.

So what do you guys think, is it time for a RMA or is it something else??

The card is a Gainward 6800 GT Golden Sample, the rest of my PC is in my sig.

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Mobo: ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, CPU: AMD 64 3200+ (Venice) @ 2,4Ghz Mem: 2 x 512 DDR 466, Vga: 2 x Club 3D 6600 GT in SLI, Hdd1: WD Raptor Hdd2: MaxtorDiamond Plus 9, Case: Antec Plus View 1080, Psu: ThermalTake PurePower 500W, MX 1000, Dell 2001 FP, Aud. 2 SZ

mainman

Well Dan this sounds like a temp problem to me, you did have that problem with your vidcard. Are you sure the cooler is well secured to the vidcards core? Did you apply the vidcard thermal paste in the right way? Take a screenshot of the dots just to see how it looks. Did you update the new mobo's bios? Did you reformat you HD when you installed the new mobo? Its allways recomended to do a fresh windows instalation when you upgrade your mobo and update all chipset related software.

Danhill

Hey, Helio, no it wasn't a temp problem, them temp was 45-47 idle, it was the video card, I bought a backup card on Saturday (Geforce 6600) and it works like a charm now, I'm RMA the card in a few days to Germany and hopefully get a new 6800 GT

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Mobo: ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, CPU: AMD 64 3200+ (Venice) @ 2,4Ghz Mem: 2 x 512 DDR 466, Vga: 2 x Club 3D 6600 GT in SLI, Hdd1: WD Raptor Hdd2: MaxtorDiamond Plus 9, Case: Antec Plus View 1080, Psu: ThermalTake PurePower 500W, MX 1000, Dell 2001 FP, Aud. 2 SZ

xGeetx

Forgive me if your problem is over and this is just spam...


I recently had the same problem, so what I did was delete ANYTHING nVidia that was on my pc, uninstalled all the current drivers too. Then I actually rolledback to a version 6 forceware because I was having a temperature issue and the BFG Rep. said version 6's have lower temps.

Then, I decided to just go back to the 7's. I downloaded the 71.89 and it was the only one on my pc and it started working again. You can probobly skip all the rollback stuff, but uninstalling all the drivers and deleting all the install files may help your problem.

Danhill

No problem, your not spamming :-)

I did try the 66 drivers as well, I even went back to 61 drivers and I used drivercleaner each time, but still the problem remained.

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Mobo: ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, CPU: AMD 64 3200+ (Venice) @ 2,4Ghz Mem: 2 x 512 DDR 466, Vga: 2 x Club 3D 6600 GT in SLI, Hdd1: WD Raptor Hdd2: MaxtorDiamond Plus 9, Case: Antec Plus View 1080, Psu: ThermalTake PurePower 500W, MX 1000, Dell 2001 FP, Aud. 2 SZ

squall_leonhart

newer Forceware drivers past the 76.50 do not have the temp bug

xGeetx

I just found out they don't have the temp bug... How come the nVidia website doesn't have the 77.30 on their site? And it's not digitally signed, is it some beta version of a new driver? It works fine...

Danhill

Guys, it wasn't a temp issue here, it was the card. The backup card I have (6600) is running just fine.

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Mobo: ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, CPU: AMD 64 3200+ (Venice) @ 2,4Ghz Mem: 2 x 512 DDR 466, Vga: 2 x Club 3D 6600 GT in SLI, Hdd1: WD Raptor Hdd2: MaxtorDiamond Plus 9, Case: Antec Plus View 1080, Psu: ThermalTake PurePower 500W, MX 1000, Dell 2001 FP, Aud. 2 SZ

squall_leonhart

kk danhill,

the temp bug is only with 6800gt/ultra's on the 71-75 series's forceware

past this they work fine

it doesn't bother the 6600's