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Pirate Satellite

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nvidia 8800 GTX
« on: April 16, 2007, 01:50:45 PM »
Recently, I installed a new nvidia 8800 GTX and a few days later I started having trouble with the graphics in some games.  I play Oblivion and it works great but if I play SimCity 4 for images become distorted.  Does anyone have any idea what I should do.

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ATI motherboard produced for Hewlit Packard
AMD Athalon X2 3800
2 meg ram (3200)

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Re: nvidia 8800 GTX
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2007, 01:57:00 PM »
Did you un-install the old drivers first ? ?

2Meg of RAM could cause this but i'm sure it's a typo as XP wouldn't run...
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Re: nvidia 8800 GTX
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2007, 02:25:18 PM »
you're right 2 gig of ram.  No, I haven't unistalled old drivers yet, is that always necessary?

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Re: nvidia 8800 GTX
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2007, 02:27:35 PM »
Temperatures of videocard and processor?

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Re: nvidia 8800 GTX
« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2007, 02:43:15 PM »
HP's have notoriously small power supplies. What is the wattage on yours and what does that card require?

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    Re: nvidia 8800 GTX
    « Reply #5 on: April 16, 2007, 02:55:38 PM »
    my 2 cents.....   :D

     

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