Artanis667
New Member
I just recently, yesterday in fact, made some upgrades to my computer. My specs before were
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (754 socket)
GIGABYTE K8 Triton mobo
1GB PNY DDR 400 PC3200 RAM
PNY GeForce 7800 GS (AGP 8x)
and everything ran fine. I was playing Oblivion, World of Warcraft, Warcraft 3, all of it worked. My processor was laggin behind a bit so I decided to get a 939 board and upgrade the processor.
I bought a AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 for $199 (Great deal from newegg!) and got a GIGABYTE K8 Triton 939 version. Its a bit different then the last one. Anyway, the processor also came with a free 3Gbps SATA 250MB harddrive and I set that one to primary. I backed up, formated, and installed XP MCE on the SATA drive. Everything seemd to be fine UNTIL I installed WoW.
I start it up and nothing shows up. Its just a black screen but I can hear everything. So I installed the newest nVidia drivers and still, a black screen. Then I install the newest version of Direct X and it still doesn't work. Starting to get discouraged, I install oblivion and the SAME THING HAPPENS!!! Just a black screen but I can hear everything. Then I install Warcraft 3 and once again, its just a black screen. So then I updated the BIOS on my mobo and that didn't work. And now I am running out of ideas as to whats wronge. I KNOW this graphics card works because I was just using it yesterday. Please, any ideas?
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (754 socket)
GIGABYTE K8 Triton mobo
1GB PNY DDR 400 PC3200 RAM
PNY GeForce 7800 GS (AGP 8x)
and everything ran fine. I was playing Oblivion, World of Warcraft, Warcraft 3, all of it worked. My processor was laggin behind a bit so I decided to get a 939 board and upgrade the processor.
I bought a AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 for $199 (Great deal from newegg!) and got a GIGABYTE K8 Triton 939 version. Its a bit different then the last one. Anyway, the processor also came with a free 3Gbps SATA 250MB harddrive and I set that one to primary. I backed up, formated, and installed XP MCE on the SATA drive. Everything seemd to be fine UNTIL I installed WoW.
I start it up and nothing shows up. Its just a black screen but I can hear everything. So I installed the newest nVidia drivers and still, a black screen. Then I install the newest version of Direct X and it still doesn't work. Starting to get discouraged, I install oblivion and the SAME THING HAPPENS!!! Just a black screen but I can hear everything. Then I install Warcraft 3 and once again, its just a black screen. So then I updated the BIOS on my mobo and that didn't work. And now I am running out of ideas as to whats wronge. I KNOW this graphics card works because I was just using it yesterday. Please, any ideas?
At least it wasn't a hardware issue. So then I went back to XP and checked out what mobo drivers I had installed. The ULi chipset drivers that came on the disc are apparently older and that controles the AGP slot so I went to ULi's site and got the newest drivers for my chipset. Re-installed the graphics drivers I had and eveything works fine now. Thanks