9800gtx/ monitor issues

hermeslyre · 06-22-2008, 09:40 AM

Uninstall drivers -> run Drivercleaner Pro -> reinstall newest drivers.

Sometimes old driver fragments can screw things up, this is my first guess. Second guess is that you just had a bad driver install. Doesn't happen to me frequently, but I have gotten a quirky install were things didn't go so smooth. This reinstall would set things straight if such were the case. Third guess would be the drivers themselves at blame. My only advise would be to pull back to an older driver version till things are worked out. (175.80 is considered a pretty stable [9 series compatible] release)

goodoneian · 06-22-2008, 08:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hermeslyre

Uninstall drivers -> run Drivercleaner Pro -> reinstall newest drivers.

Sometimes old driver fragments can screw things up, this is my first guess. Second guess is that you just had a bad driver install. Doesn't happen to me frequently, but I have gotten a quirky install were things didn't go so smooth. This reinstall would set things straight if such were the case. Third guess would be the drivers themselves at blame. My only advise would be to pull back to an older driver version till things are worked out. (175.80 is considered a pretty stable [9 series compatible] release)

okay so i tried that and removed all my old drivers then re installed. i wasn't successful though. what i did do was on the nvidia control panel was make a custom resolution of 1680x1050 and it works fine so far.

whats weird also though was i put in my old 7900 and installed its drivers, and the same thing happened as far as not having my native resolution available. i'm gonna give evga tech support a call pretty soon and see what they think of this whole ordeal

hermeslyre · 06-22-2008, 10:26 PM

That is strange, This all sounds like a bad driver problem to me but .. If Evga can help you out and get things fixed, post the solution here, I'd be interested to know what it was all about.

goodoneian · 06-23-2008, 03:15 AM

well i called tech support, and the guy i talked to said it could possibly be that my monitor needed drivers. so i checked acers website and of course, the only drivers for my monitor were for xp (i was using vista). he also said to update my motherboard's drivers from nvidias website. i did that, and everything was still screwy. so, i gave up and installed xp and have had no issues yet haha. seems like it was just a vista problem i guess? or the video card's vista drivers

hermeslyre · 06-23-2008, 03:27 AM

I wouldn't say the monitor drivers would've helped much. They're usually nothing more than .inf text files that tell the OS what the monitor can do, this isn't really necessary.

Yeah, I think it was the Vista drivers. Le sigh. Least you're good for now, I would wait to retry till after a new set of drivers are released, needless to say.

goodoneian · 06-23-2008, 05:59 AM

yeah, i'm not that fond of vista anyways so i'm in no hurry to re install it and what not

goodoneian · 06-23-2008, 06:08 AM

but now when i play crysis, it keeps crashing at the same cut scene. gahh

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06-22-2008, 09:40 AM	#11 (permalink)
hermeslyre VIP Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Portland, Oregon Age: 18 Posts: 4,973	Uninstall drivers -> run Drivercleaner Pro -> reinstall newest drivers. Sometimes old driver fragments can screw things up, this is my first guess. Second guess is that you just had a bad driver install. Doesn't happen to me frequently, but I have gotten a quirky install were things didn't go so smooth. This reinstall would set things straight if such were the case. Third guess would be the drivers themselves at blame. My only advise would be to pull back to an older driver version till things are worked out. (175.80 is considered a pretty stable [9 series compatible] release)

06-22-2008, 10:26 PM	#13 (permalink)
hermeslyre VIP Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Portland, Oregon Age: 18 Posts: 4,973	That is strange, This all sounds like a bad driver problem to me but .. If Evga can help you out and get things fixed, post the solution here, I'd be interested to know what it was all about.

06-23-2008, 03:15 AM	#14 (permalink)
goodoneian Bronze Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 40	well i called tech support, and the guy i talked to said it could possibly be that my monitor needed drivers. so i checked acers website and of course, the only drivers for my monitor were for xp (i was using vista). he also said to update my motherboard's drivers from nvidias website. i did that, and everything was still screwy. so, i gave up and installed xp and have had no issues yet haha. seems like it was just a vista problem i guess? or the video card's vista drivers

06-23-2008, 03:27 AM	#15 (permalink)
hermeslyre VIP Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Portland, Oregon Age: 18 Posts: 4,973	I wouldn't say the monitor drivers would've helped much. They're usually nothing more than .inf text files that tell the OS what the monitor can do, this isn't really necessary. Yeah, I think it was the Vista drivers. Le sigh. Least you're good for now, I would wait to retry till after a new set of drivers are released, needless to say.

06-23-2008, 05:59 AM	#16 (permalink)
goodoneian Bronze Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 40	yeah, i'm not that fond of vista anyways so i'm in no hurry to re install it and what not

06-23-2008, 06:08 AM	#17 (permalink)
goodoneian Bronze Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 40	but now when i play crysis, it keeps crashing at the same cut scene. gahh