TiE23 Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 Well, some of you may know that a week or two ago I had to replace the mobo and CPU on my computer. I reformatted the computer and everything is running fine. I then decide to install Age of Empires and it never starts... just displays a black screen until I stop it with Ctrl-Alt-Del. I double check that I have all the right drivers and stuff for my 7800GS along with DX 9.0c. Then I install Company of Heroes and I start it up... I can see my mouse but everything else is black. But the sound of the video intros are still there- I can even skip them with the Esc button. Then I end up at the menu (I can tell with the music) but the only thing on screen is the mouse pointer. This happens with all my games except Defcon, which could probably run off a calculator anyway. Am I missing something, anyone know whats going on? eVGA 7800GS 256mb AGP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthMuffin Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 Just a thought: did you check the regional settings for your graphics adapter? I know some games freak out when it's not set to English (US). Happened to me once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted January 13, 2007 Author Share Posted January 13, 2007 Well, I've had this video card for some months now. It's not new, just that something is wrong software wise. Also, I tried Day of Defeat: Source, it loaded the VALVE logo and even got to the loading splash screen. But when it finished loading and the music started it went black. It's very frustrating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 Have you tried uninstalling/reinstalling your graphics card? Other than that I'm at a loss, other than to contact the makers of your vid card and maybe the mobo manufacturer. Check out their forums and see if anyone else is having that problem. Also, make sure that the power cord for the vid card is plugged in. I had so many issues I was ready to take a hammer to my machine. It couldn't even run Unreal Tournament for more than 10 minutes before the screen would go black and about 10 seconds later the computer would reboot. I went to try reseating the ram, which required me to take out my video card, and after reseating it and putting the vid card back in I thought to myself, I never unplugged the power cord when I took it out. So I plugged it back in, and bam, I'm running CS:S at the highest settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider AL Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 I must echo what Bongo said. Such symptoms can be caused by hardware issues with the card. I have had similar problems with games that demand a great deal from my graphics card in the past. My solution was to oil the bearing on my gfx cooling fan. This proved to be the fix I needed. Works fine now with Boiling Point, Far Cry... X2... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted January 13, 2007 Author Share Posted January 13, 2007 Well, I sent an email to eVGA. It came with a lifetime warranty. It even covers OC'd cards. Hopefully that will help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boba Rhett Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 I'm seeing that many people with that card are having the problem that you are experiencing. A large chunk of them were able to fix the problem by using the NGO Optimized drivers. Link Of course, you could always just get a new card and send me (a poor college student) your old one. I'm personally in support of that solution as I've been wanting that exact card for a while now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoxStar Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 What are your temperatures at when you start the games? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 Of course, you could always just get a new card and send me (a poor college student) your old one. I'm personally in support of that solution as I've been wanting that exact card for a while now. I'm liking that plan. Except switch out the phrase "me (a poor college student)" with "BongoBob" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted January 14, 2007 Author Share Posted January 14, 2007 I saw stuff about that, but they were all old drivers, didn't know they had new versions. It's late so I'll do it tomorrow morning, don't feel like doing this now. *Downloads* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 On a related note, my computer kepy BSODing on me today, so I unplugged the molex, and plugged it back in, and bam, no BSODs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted January 15, 2007 Author Share Posted January 15, 2007 Okay, drivers didn't work, and I'll try doing what you said Bongo. Just turn it off, unplug and plug it back in, start? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Yeah. Since it most likely uses a molex power connecter, if it's running off of a molex y-splitter, unplug that and replug it in as well, because mine comes loose sometimes. You could also try reseating the ram if you want. Hope it works out for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted January 15, 2007 Author Share Posted January 15, 2007 Yeah, I can see that it could be the molex connectors. The area between the end of the video card (where the plug is) and the hard drives is very tight. So it might be getting a bad connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTV2 Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Do you have a 350W Power Supply? DO you have a cable connected to the Card for power? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted January 15, 2007 Author Share Posted January 15, 2007 Do you have a 350W Power Supply? DO you have a cable connected to the Card for power? No and yes. It's 400w- I'm not stupid, I know things need to be plugged in to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTV2 Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 ...i never said you were stupid (?) i don't know then, make sure your drivers are all up to date by getting then from nvidia which is 93.71...reseat it, make sure its not overheating..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWally Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Could it be the cable leading to the card itself? The card may be plugged in, but maybe you could try some of the other cables? That happened to me with a hard drive once, I thought it had failed, but it was really just a bad cable. Just a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted January 16, 2007 Author Share Posted January 16, 2007 Switched cables and it didn't work. Before it shared the same power cables as the 2 hard drives, to I thought that may be the problem, but switching it to share with only one single case fan didn't do anything. Same thing happens. I'm pretty sure a format would solve this, but that's the last thing I want to do right now. :\ Edit: I have the cash to go and drop ~$250 on a PCI-E card right now, but I'm not really sure I'd want to do that cause I don't play PC games that often anymore, I hate to admit it, but the consoles have really taken over my gaming needs. Also, I was testing to see if the video card worked using a 'certain N64 emulator' to play a 'certain game', it had all sorts of graphical bugs, stuff would disappear randomly. It was like the opposite of pop-in, more like pop-out. Walking and the ground would disappear behind the character like if in noclip mode in some game. What could that mean? Hardware trouble? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boba Rhett Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Do you have another PC you can throw it in? Far out shot: Do you have any equipment to check the board at the component level? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Could it be a problem with the AGP/PCI-e slot on your mobo? I've read some real horror stories with that mobo's agp/pci-e slot and nvidia cards. And although this is a longshot, if you don't have another AGP mobo lying around to slap it into to test it, send it down to me and I'll test it for you. Just don't use scotch tape this time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoxStar Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Also, I was testing to see if the video card worked using a 'certain N64 emulator' to play a 'certain game', it had all sorts of graphical bugs, stuff would disappear randomly. It was like the opposite of pop-in, more like pop-out. Walking and the ground would disappear behind the character like if in noclip mode in some game. What could that mean? Hardware trouble? That's a definite hardware error. Also, don't reformat! It won't solve anything. ^ Those are examples of graphical artifacts. Both of my 9800 Pros got those before they broke entirely. Check your video card's temperature as it can be caused by that. If that's fine, then considering it worked fine in your previous motherboard, it's probably the motherboard / motherboard's agp slot. Look around for a work around or BIOS update or something. Also, make sure that you that you installed your motherboard's AGP drivers (and all other drivers, for that matter). You may also want to try the following: 1. Right click on your desktop 2. Go to properties 3. Settings 4. Geforce 7800 (or whatever your card is) 5. AGP Settings 6. UNCHECK enable fast write. You may have to have coolbits installed to access this part of the menu (click ) While you are there, check to make sure that your video card is not overclocked. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted January 17, 2007 Author Share Posted January 17, 2007 One of the first things I did when the machine came back on was to OC it to my previous level (with CoolBits). When I saw that the games weren't working I but it back to normal. I can't change the FastWrite settings and I may have to do some tweaking in the BIOS with my dad later. My other computer only has a 250w PSU, not strong enough to power the card. Also, no response from eVGA yet... blerg... BTW: Mobo is ASRock 939Dual-VSTA Edit: Similar problem with same mobo.... http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/archive/index.php/my_new_asrock_dual939_please_look-t-203236.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoxStar Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Try setting your AGP speed to 4x (a noticeable performance drop, but it may solve problem). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boba Rhett Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 If it aids in your decision as to whether or not you should purchase a PCI-E card, I would be interested in purchasing this card from you if you intended to get a different one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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