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My motherboard is a DFI LanParty nForce2 chipset + Athlon processor.
Standard processor settings and voltages (i.e. no overclocking).
The first thing I noticed after installing my Galaxy 6800 GT graphics card was
that the LanParty splash screen was corrupted with white pixels.
I was able to boot into Windows XP, but the graphics screen was covered in
random sometimes regular blocks of pixels of the wrong colour. Thankfully I
could still use the system to shutdown cleanly.
Resetting and going into the BIOS, the text screen was completely garbled as
if it was a graphics screen rather than a text screen. Only a tiny handful of
characters were recognisable.
I've now tried the card in a second PC (also a nForce2 chipset). The screen
corruption was identical. I've searched and can find no reference to
incompatibility between nForce2 and the 6800.
I suspect a faulty card and I am going through the painful(?) process of
RMAing the card. Of course the person I need to speak to is away until Tuesday
:-(.
I've searched various web sites and forums and I have come across similar
descriptions of faulty card, including some specific postings about the Galaxy
card. Some postings mention the extra power connector being important - I have
checked this connection carefully.
Am I just very unlucky or has anyone else had a faulty 6800 card?
I considered installing the drivers (even with the screen corruption it is
still just about usable) and *under*clocking the GPU and RAM. This may
invalidate the warranty so I am now reluctant to do this. I'd be fascinated to
know whether it fixed the problem.
Do the symtoms suggest faulty GPU or faulty RAM?
Or is it possible that there is a magic setting in my BIOS?
Or is the card just duff?
regards...
--Gary
My motherboard is a DFI LanParty nForce2 chipset + Athlon processor.
Standard processor settings and voltages (i.e. no overclocking).
The first thing I noticed after installing my Galaxy 6800 GT graphics card was
that the LanParty splash screen was corrupted with white pixels.
I was able to boot into Windows XP, but the graphics screen was covered in
random sometimes regular blocks of pixels of the wrong colour. Thankfully I
could still use the system to shutdown cleanly.
Resetting and going into the BIOS, the text screen was completely garbled as
if it was a graphics screen rather than a text screen. Only a tiny handful of
characters were recognisable.
I've now tried the card in a second PC (also a nForce2 chipset). The screen
corruption was identical. I've searched and can find no reference to
incompatibility between nForce2 and the 6800.
I suspect a faulty card and I am going through the painful(?) process of
RMAing the card. Of course the person I need to speak to is away until Tuesday
:-(.
I've searched various web sites and forums and I have come across similar
descriptions of faulty card, including some specific postings about the Galaxy
card. Some postings mention the extra power connector being important - I have
checked this connection carefully.
Am I just very unlucky or has anyone else had a faulty 6800 card?
I considered installing the drivers (even with the screen corruption it is
still just about usable) and *under*clocking the GPU and RAM. This may
invalidate the warranty so I am now reluctant to do this. I'd be fascinated to
know whether it fixed the problem.
Do the symtoms suggest faulty GPU or faulty RAM?
Or is it possible that there is a magic setting in my BIOS?
Or is the card just duff?
regards...
--Gary