der8auer Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K404 Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 It's happened to me on X58 too with some drivers + nV 5 series. I just took it as a hint and didn't bother Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crew Turrican Posted December 23, 2011 Crew Share Posted December 23, 2011 as already said, there are problems with pre geforce 7 cards on sb and sometimes x58. i don't know why. i invested days to get it running, but without success. but it in the end it doesn't matter so much, because gf6 card don't gain a lot with sb. a high clocked wolfdale should do just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
der8auer Posted December 23, 2011 Author Share Posted December 23, 2011 Thank god I kept one RE + E8600 Will use this instead if there is no solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K404 Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 An nV 6-series arrived in my hands and I had the same problems. 197.45 works fine though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Indeed Kenny Had the same issues with 6800Ultra/GT cards on SB. Asus M4E, Gigabyte UD5 and UD7. Gonne try the REX with an e8600 some day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K404 Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 X48 should be fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crew Turrican Posted January 31, 2012 Crew Share Posted January 31, 2012 X48 should be fine rampage extreme ftw! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Hard to get by these day's. I did keep mine close to me :nana: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K404 Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 I sold my X48 Evo maybe 10 days ago. I cried myself to sleep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crew Turrican Posted January 31, 2012 Crew Share Posted January 31, 2012 lol, i'll never sell it for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knopflerbruce Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Rex Ftw! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaPaKaH Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 RE is massively overhyped, you know Staying ontopic, I can't remember having any issues whatsoever when I installed and benched a 6600GT (Leadtek) in my SB benchrig (2500K, UD3P, various drivers). But when I finished benching and just wanted to stress-test the card at stock before selling, I got a screen full of zeros during the driver install. I took as "I've killed it" and since it's no big money, I thrown it away. Yes, you might as well use a 775 for the 6-series. When I did pretesting on air, going from 4G to 5G SB gave ~1500pts in 01 (mostly in car-tests), ~250pts in 03 (mostly in GT1), ~80pts in 05 (mostly in GT1), ~15pts in 06 (because of CPU test) and no measurable difference in AM3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 http://hwbot.org/submission/2186050_massman_3dmark03_geforce_6600_gt_pci_e_14915_marks I ran 6600GT with Sandy Bridge too. There was a problem with getting the card to boot though. The fix was to change PCIe slots whenever the card wouldn't boot up again. So: 1) boot, all works fine 2) reboot and monitor stays blank 3) shut down, change pcie lane 4) boot up, should work fine again Sometimes I had to do this three or four times for the card to boot properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Massman, we are talking about the 169.21,.. drivers for 01. Getting old are you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crew Leeghoofd Posted February 1, 2012 Crew Share Posted February 1, 2012 Prolly still intoxicated Luc... try again tomorrow... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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