I have a asus m2nbp-vm csm motherboard and i install a evga geforce 7800 gt video card but when i try to install the drivers it causes my computer to crash. what could be the problem ? and what can i do to try to fix this ?
2007-01-17 14:33:40 · 5 answers · asked by DuhMan 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Did you disable onboard graphics in the BIOS?
Did you uninstall any old graphic drivers?
2007-01-17 14:36:46 · answer #1 · answered by INOA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try just using this first, you probably didn't remove the old driver first, before you installed the new driver: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Uninstallers/Driver-Cleaner-Professional.shtml Driver Cleaner is the best, and most well-known and widely-used driver removal tool on the planet. I've been using it for a few years now, and it's great.
If that doesn't solve your problem, then welcome to nVidia's world! They're known for telling the world that every driver they release works with all of their video cards. Like most advertising, it's total BS. While the driver will almost always load, if used with an older card, even one that's only two generations old like yours, you'll get crashes.
I own a PCI-E 6600 that would game just fine with the latest driver, about 3 months ago, but would crash when I tried to play ANY video in full screen. It would play those same videos just fine, as long as I didn't try to play them in full screen. But, as soon as I went back about 6 or 8 months on the driver, it was perfect. That's quite normal for nVidia, unfortunately.
2007-01-17 15:01:22 · answer #2 · answered by alchemist_n_tx 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You install the drivers first before putting the graphic card into the system. After putting the video card into the PCI/AGP/PCI-E slot, boot up your computer and it should detect automatically.
2007-01-17 14:37:34 · answer #3 · answered by Jack 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can plug it back on the onboard and try to disable the onboard. But make sure that the drivers are instiled on the avga card.
2007-01-17 15:03:07 · answer #4 · answered by landtwl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try updating your motherboards BIOS.
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us
Also, try updating the chipset drivers.
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
Then reinstall the drivers for your video card, being sure to use the latest ones (also found at link above.)
2007-01-17 14:43:13 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋