doublebassdanny
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Hello everyone,
I just bought a video card off eBay, an nVidia FX5900 by BFG and when I plugged it in and turned my pc on everything went fine till I logged in when artifacts started appearing everywhere. Within a couple of seconds the whole screen was blocked out with artifacts. So I popped my old card in an uninstalled every nVidia driver I could find and downloaded the new ones. Then I put the new 5900 in, powered it on and everything looked fine (it was then running on just windows default VGA drivers). So I was all excited but then when I tried to install the ForceWare drivers the second it had finished installing them the artifacts reappeared. So basically I am baffled at this. It seems like the drivers are giving it it's problem but I am at a loss. I was running a Geforce FX5500 (crap I know lol) and that worked great. Also I have tried using this cards on different motherboards with a the same HDD and the same thing happened so it isn't an AGP bus problem or anything. Thanks for any help. This guy won't let me return it cuz apparently it was "working great before he shipped it"... *******.
I just bought a video card off eBay, an nVidia FX5900 by BFG and when I plugged it in and turned my pc on everything went fine till I logged in when artifacts started appearing everywhere. Within a couple of seconds the whole screen was blocked out with artifacts. So I popped my old card in an uninstalled every nVidia driver I could find and downloaded the new ones. Then I put the new 5900 in, powered it on and everything looked fine (it was then running on just windows default VGA drivers). So I was all excited but then when I tried to install the ForceWare drivers the second it had finished installing them the artifacts reappeared. So basically I am baffled at this. It seems like the drivers are giving it it's problem but I am at a loss. I was running a Geforce FX5500 (crap I know lol) and that worked great. Also I have tried using this cards on different motherboards with a the same HDD and the same thing happened so it isn't an AGP bus problem or anything. Thanks for any help. This guy won't let me return it cuz apparently it was "working great before he shipped it"... *******.