please help me, what is wrong with my 8800 GT ? :(

these are my specs:

amd 5000+ oc'ed at 3.1 GHz
XFX 8200 motherboard
PNY 8800 GT
600 W power supply

this is my 3dmark06 score check out my graphics score !!!!! its so low, half of what is should be? what is the problem with my video card? please help

here is the 3dmark06 report thing

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=8161020

Not a 3dmark expert but is your cpu or gpu cool enough? It may be throttling. Get HWMonitor and play a game to see the max temps. Update drivers too @ nzone.com and check if any unnecessary background apps are running and close them

sorry here is the print screen of my GPU-z http://gpuz.techpowerup.com/08/09/13/en.png

so what can i do?

here is the PSU that i have http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicat [...] =ULT-LS600

here is the mobo

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicat [...] =P450-9120

Ima look at mobo but in mean time double check power connection to your card.

OK cool.

You have onboard Video as well.

Ok, First make sure your plugged into your 8800 and not your mobo VGA/DVI.
I've seen it happen lol.

2nd disable onboard in bios.
Download Driver cleaner and delete the drivers in safemode.
Reboot and install drivers for 8800GT.

I am sure your on board is conflicting with your 8800GT.

how do i go about doing that? where do i go?

why last question?

lol i live in toronto, canada............btw thats really nice of you,,i don't think you want to do long distance i'm 16 yr old

Yea, Im sure that hes in the US, hence why he linked everything from TD Canada...

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I was gonna download and read your manual from XFX but they make it to complicated.

Restart machine.

Pay attention to see if windows finds your onboard and loads them again, if so you need to go into the bios and disable your onboard graphics, and delete drivers again, then you can load 8800gt drivers and all is well.

i have xp, so i restarted but its kind of wierd now, like when i scroll this page theres waves , what should i do now?

Ok. I think your golden.

Thats a common generic VGA driver issue.

Now download the latest Driver for 8800GT and install it. Then try 3dmark again.

oh man i still got the same score,,,, F*** my life

Well do you got the monitor plugged in to the 8800GT or to the onboard?

Read your motherboard manual and see what it says about adding a card and how to disable the onboard video.

The site said that mobo has Hybrid SLI, so maybe you have to enable that somehow. I would read your manual and then read it again. Then you will know what to do. I think somehow its running on the onboard video right now.

You need to enable the hybrid SLI, or disable onboard video all together. Either way its probably a setting in the bios.

Is there a option in Nvidia control panel to enable SLI.

I found your manual ima give it a quick glance.

Well the manual I found doesn,t work. Your gonna have to figure out the bios and disable it in there. When you start the computer it should tell you what key to hit to enter setup/ "bios" Find the graphics options and list them here.

If nothing else RMA that crappy mobo and get a p35 or p45. Nvidia boards suck!!!!!!!!!

Its a problem with the onboard video messing with the graphic card. There will be a option somewhere to enable hybrid sli or disable the onboard all together. If you cant/ dont want to find it get a new mobo without onboard video.

You could try the 8800gt in a friends PC but I dont think the card is the problem.

PCI-E VGA

Well disabling SLI and setting to PCI-E VGA might be the option.

If its set to the other 2 options it will boot to the onboard video and not you 8800gt.

when i was testing them out i accidentaly chose PCI VGA and now i can't enter BIOS, it just shows a black screen at startu and then after 2 min windows loads? how can i enter the BIOS again?