I tried to bench different cards yesterday but had some problems during the driver installation. The screen turns black (which is normal) but instead of continuing with the installation I can only see a flashing "_". When restarting the system the "_" appears again after the windows loading screen.
This happened with different cards and different drivers. So I'm sure it's a software problem.
Setup:
2600K
Maximus 4 Extreme (1904 BIOS)
2x2GB Dominator GT 2000 CL7
Cards I tried:
-Quadro FX 1300
-2x Quadro FX 3400
-2x Geforce 6800 Ultra
Drivers:
-169.21
-182.50
-190.62
-280.26
all on Windows XP 32
Setup runs without any problems with Geforce 7, 8, 9 and other newer cards. The Problem seems to be with pre Geforce 7 cards.
Does anybody know this issue and maybe the solution?