As I'm sure you'll remember, my new video card was delivered last Thursday. I began the ordeal of installing it Friday. I know, your thinking "ordeal"? What ordeal?
It wasn't as easy as I'd hoped, but it was, of course, my fault. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]
I uninstalled the old drivers and did all the other preliminaries before installing.
First, I tried the latest certified driver from the leadtek.com.tw site. That didn't work out at all. NWN ran like I was on an old 286 PC. Several people told me they'd had problems with the new driver, so I didn't think much of it and began removing the driver and installing the one that came with my card.
After installing the driver that came with it, I knew something was still wrong. I checked several things, re-installed the driver(s) several times, both leadtek and generic nvidia, but nothing seemed to solve the problem.
I thought I'd go online to look for help, but guess what? I couldn't get online anymore
My friend works for Time Warner Cable, and after he go off work Friday, he came by to help. We couldn't figure out anything on the card, so he decided he would try to find out what was wrong with my TW RoadRunner cable connection. After running several tests, contacting the main RR people etc, testing the neighborhood connection, running the line directly from the pole outside to my modem/his test modem/a new modem we still couldn't figure it out. The lights were on, on my NIC card, but we finally decided to check the card itself.
It seems that the oversized Geforce card was almost resting on the NIC card, either overheating it or causing interference or both. I moved it to the open slot at the bottom of my machine to give the GF room.
After doing that, my RR connnection was back, and I was able to successfully install the driver that came with my card. I still wasn't able to get the newest driver to work, but after another day or two of playing around, I'm running the newest driver and feeling pretty stupid about the 6 hour installation process on Friday...lol.
It's actually a good thing I had the RR problem because the NIC card was almost completely covering the lower fan on the GF card, and I'd have probably burned it up. I still can't believe I didn't notice how tight the two cards were....
Thanks for everyone's help!
Animal, the newest driver didn't want to work, but I finally got it going. Not the nvidia generic driver, but the leadtek version.
The 250W power supply seems to be holding up great. No blue screens, crashes, etc.
I did order an additional 256mg ram though. I just couldn't resist continuing to build the "monster"
