Re: Blank screen after installing Graphics Drivers



Hi charlie, I know what you are getting at, I have the options of PCI/AGP as
it is a dual AGP and PCIe board, I have set this to AGP. No other options
relating to the graphics other than the usual arpeture settings.

"Charlie Tame" wrote:

Malke wrote:
MGBassace wrote:

I have a problem that is driving me crazy, As you know i have just updated
my machine from AMD based to Intel this is going fine and all working
sweet as, I have sold the old mobo, processor and ram to a friend and
installed in his machine for him, All appears to have gone well with the
install of the os, It boots okay, has update windows okay, activated okay
etc etc, However when I install the graphic drivers for his 7600GS it goes
through the motions then gives a blank screen, sound etc can still be
heard indicating that he machine is working but not displaying, Try a
reboot and you get as far as the Windows loading screen with the blue bar
and then just before the log on screen would appear it goes blank again,
Sytem boots into safe mode okay with display and also vga mode okay with
display. Remove the drivers and the system will boot normally into windows
again with standard vga mode.
Attempt to re-install the drivers and the same thing happens all over
again.

I have tried both DVI and VGA cable to rule out resolution and refresh
rate.

The only realistic conclusion that I can come up with is that maybe as my
monitor is a High Def Synchmaster wide screen jobbie, that the card when
the drivers are installed is kicking out a resolution / refresh that the
monitor can't use.

I have tried various different versions of the forceware drivers.

I can't imagine why you think we would know anything about what you've done
except that you're posting using the web interface to these Usenet
newsgroups and you think this is a web forum (it's not).

As for whether the card can handle your monitor, here are the card's tech
specs (from Nvidia - http://www.nvidia.com/object/7_series_techspecs.html)

Advanced Display Functionality

* Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for analog display resolutions up to
and including 2048x1536 at 85Hz
* Dual-link DVI capability to drive the industry's largest and highest
resolution digital flat panel displays up to 2560x16001
* Integrated HDTV encoder provides analog TV-output
(Component/Composite/S-Video) up to 1080i resolution
* Full NVIDIA® nView® multi-display technology capability

Those are pretty high specs so unless you have a monitor that is covering an
entire wall I doubt that's the reason. However, test by attaching the
computer to a different monitor. If the problem continues, the video card
is failing and should be replaced.

Malke


Somewhere in the BIOS there is probably a setting called something like
"Display Priority" or "Display Default" and that often has a couple of
options. Whatever it is set at try the other one.

My 7600 just died from blown capacitors, - worth checking for that too.

.



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