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I just bought a new graphics card (EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti) and I can't seem to get it working properly.
Here's what I'm experiencing:
Moving the mouse around causes a ripple effect that distorts the area around the mouse (makes it somewhat possible to navigate the PC in this state since you can "re-scramble" the picture around the mouse pointer and make some text readable).
If I install the video drivers for this card, Windows won't boot at all (it just goes to the Windows logo and then a black screen followed by four beeps from the motherboard). I have to do a "Restore" just to get it back like this.
I actually had this same issue back in the Release Preview when I tried to plug in an EVGA 550 Ti into this computer but I wrote it off as a problem with that build and just ignored it. I've been using an MSI Radeon HD 4850 since then and it hasn't had any problems but I replaced it with the 650 Ti to free up some space in the PC (as it's considerably shorter as well as newer).
The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-M61P-S3 (a 2007 board) and the CPU is a AMD Athlon 64 x2 6000+. Do you think the issue could be with the motherboard itself (I didn't think "too old" could be a problem with PCI-e x16 slots due to supposedly being backwards compatible but if this and a 550 Ti both experience the same hiccup in Windows 8, it seems possible)?
Here's what I'm experiencing:
Moving the mouse around causes a ripple effect that distorts the area around the mouse (makes it somewhat possible to navigate the PC in this state since you can "re-scramble" the picture around the mouse pointer and make some text readable).
If I install the video drivers for this card, Windows won't boot at all (it just goes to the Windows logo and then a black screen followed by four beeps from the motherboard). I have to do a "Restore" just to get it back like this.
I actually had this same issue back in the Release Preview when I tried to plug in an EVGA 550 Ti into this computer but I wrote it off as a problem with that build and just ignored it. I've been using an MSI Radeon HD 4850 since then and it hasn't had any problems but I replaced it with the 650 Ti to free up some space in the PC (as it's considerably shorter as well as newer).
The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-M61P-S3 (a 2007 board) and the CPU is a AMD Athlon 64 x2 6000+. Do you think the issue could be with the motherboard itself (I didn't think "too old" could be a problem with PCI-e x16 slots due to supposedly being backwards compatible but if this and a 550 Ti both experience the same hiccup in Windows 8, it seems possible)?
My Computer
System One
-
- OS
- Windows 8 Pro With Media Center x64
- System Manufacturer/Model
- N/A
- CPU
- Intel Core i5 750 (2.66 GHz x 4)
- Motherboard
- MSI P55-CD53
- Memory
- 8GB DDR3 1066 SDRAM
- Graphics Card(s)
- 1GB XFX Radeon HD 6870
- Sound Card
- Realtek HD Audio Codec
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Planar PX2710MW (27")
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 x 1080
- Hard Drives
- 128 GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD (Boot) ,2.99 TB Storage Space comprised of: 640GB Western Digital Black x2, 2TB Western Digital Black
- Case
- Raidmax Smilodon
- Cooling
- Air
- Keyboard
- (varies)
- Mouse
- Microsoft Wireless Notebook Mouse 4000
- Internet Speed
- 10 Mb/s