[farore]

Hello, i am haveing a problem with the way my graphics card is rendering things while in a game. I can be playing for 5 minutes and evryhitng just hits the crapper. All colors turn into disco mode the terrain dissapears. caht boxxes go haywire evryhitng in blood red color. I have tried new drivers and cleaned out old ones. got a new PSU and still nothing. I am running an
AMD barton 2600
windows 2k
ecs elitegroup k7vta3 mobo
512 kingston ram
Nvidia GeforceFX 5700

Games i get the problem wtih are Starwars galaxies, BF2, Call of duty

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Is the Fan still working on your Video Card? And what size Power Supply do you have?

[GeneralAres]

Is the Fan still working on your Video Card? And what size Power Supply do you have?

[farore]

Yes the fan still spins and its an antec 400 watt PSU

[farore]

any help

[GeneralAres]

ECS mainboards are notoriously unreliable and exhibit compatibility problems. your board for instance has seven revisions. Which leads me to believe they had numerous problems with it. What revision is your board?

1.0
2.0A
3.1
5.0
6.0
7.0
8.0

[farore]

version 6.

[GeneralAres]

1. Install the latest BIOS v6.0c
2. Reboot in Safe mode (F8 on startup) and uninstall ALL video drivers in add/remove, then go into device manager (control panel, system icon, hardware tab) and under Display adapters remove all that are there.
3. Reboot in Normal mode and download and install the latest chipset (Via 4-in-1 v4.56v) and video (nVidia v77.77).

Edited by admin, 29 November 2005 - 11:30 PM.

[farore]

Ok i just formated adn upgraded to windows xp. still same problem, then i switched my vid card for a 5200 and problem goes away. so no wit thinks it time to start the RMA thing with BFG and get a new card

[GeneralAres]

Since you reformatted you have to install DirectX v9.0c before installing any drivers (I never said to reformat BTW).

Did you update the BIOS and install the drivers in the order and the versions I specified?

Edited by GeneralAres, 17 August 2005 - 05:00 PM.