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So, I just got a new graphics card (x1950pro), uninstalled the old video drivers the best I could, popped the graphics card in, started up fine, installed drivers, rebooted, black screen at the login. It still continues to run, you hear hard drive activity and people messaging on MSN, but no video. So, I tried a clean install, same deal. I then tried xp 64-bit, same deal. I've tried a few different versions of the driver, a third-party version (omega), just the bare inf's, all with the same result. If I boot with VGA mode, it runs 100% stable, no artifacts or anything, but if you try to change any setting in display settings, black screen. My friend has an identical system to mine (just different RAM and HDD) and his never had any issue, and I tried different RAM with no luck. If anyone can help me with this I will rep the shit out of you, but it's starting to look like a lost cause. I'm doing windows updates now to see if there's any hotfix that will help.

Hardware:

E2140 @ stock rate for testing
Asrock 775DualVSTA
Sapphire PCI-e x1950pro 256mb (popped in an old 6600gt, worked flawlessly, so it's definitely specific to the card)
4GB pqi DDR2-1066 (also tried 2GB DDR-400)
Acer2017(also have a crt on vga just for testing)
Ultra 550w PSU (also tried a few other PSU's)
2x74GB WD Raptor (tried other drives as well)

EDIT: I also did flash the BIOS with no luck, and I might add that Sapphire tech support sent me the wrong BIOS and bricked my card, which I luckily was able to recover by booting with an old pic graphics card and reflashing the old BIOS.

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:41 pm Post subject:

Well, it didn't work over numerous OS installs, the other card worked, and I wanted to say get a BIOS and flash it, but that was done already too. :O

I'm at a loss, maybe it's just time to put it out to pasture. I don't know what could possibly if you've already done all that, especially since the other card works fine.

SF · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:50 pm Post subject:

I'm guessing your previous video card was an on-board one? If so, is it disabled in the device manager?

Labyrnth · Moderator Reputation: 10 Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 6301

First before getting this card i would have done some research on the problems people are having with it. But since this is past tense,
I read something about needing see if the other display adapter is disabled then to boot into safe mode and uninstall the old drivers then reinstall to the newest ones.

I hope this will help out.

Madman · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 4:08 pm Post subject:

if all else fails its probably a hardware issue, maybe consider an RMA...

Noz3001 · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 4:44 pm Post subject:

Maybe your PSU isn't powerful enough / the card doesn't get the right share of power.

Happened to me at first.

lolwut94 · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 6:14 pm Post subject:

this happened to my last pc and i just threw it out lmao. got a new one. maybe thats what u should do ^_^