Hey guys! Dont know if Im posting this right, hope you'll have mercy if so. I just put together an gaming comp from all my friends old things. It keeps crashing when I try to install nvidia graphics drivers. Problem: Hangs as soon as desktop loads and graphics driver icon appears in status bar. Motherboard: EPoX EP-8KDA3J - nForce3 250gb CPU: AMD64 Athlon 2800+ MEM: 1.5 gb (3*512) - 1*double side, 2 * single side HDD: 500 gb SATA Network: Motherboard nForce Controller Etc: Realtek Audio AC'97, Sony DVD-ROM DDU1621 Graphics: Geforce 7800 GS (AGP), Geforce 6600 GT (AGP) Both tried same problem. Of course wanna use the 7800. Tried drivers Forceware: 92.91, 169.21, 169.89, 260.89, 260.99 (latest) Tried installing only the graphics drivers, with all other drivers, without audio drivers, unpluggin dvd, chaning between the graphics cards, switching AGP Fast Write on and off in BIOS. Donno if this is understandable, but I trust in the public brains Thanks for helping!
Run memtest86 in dos just to make sure your hardware is stable. Some of those old nForce boards were picky about ram configurations. Might try just the two single sided ones in dual channel mode.
