Hi,
A fellow folder here from another team that needs some help if anyone would be so kind, please.
Hi, I have a NVidia 8800GT PCIe) which I have been folding with for the last week or so, and need some help. This card replaced an older NVidia FX5500 (PCI) which was not current enough to fold with. I am now interested in trying to install both cards, let the 8800 fold away, and use the 5500 to run my graphics and monitor.
So far, I have installed the FX5500, and got a blank screen at boot up. In order to get it working, I had to disable the 8800, install the fx5500 drivers, and reboot. I now have the monitor running on the 5500, and have enabled the 8800 again, so each card is installed with the proper driver. I then checked my fah log, and found that it was not folding on the 8800. I have it running as a service, and the service is stuck as 'starting' so I can not run the configonly shortcut in order to uninstall the service and try a fresh install. I'm guessing that disabling the 8800 and installing the drivers for the fx5500 threw the fah gpu client for a loop (so to speak), but don't know how to correct this.
I also get a popup stating that I have a non compliant GPU or need to install a driver for my gpu when I try to run the configonly shortcut. It references my fx5500, NOT the 8800GT. SO even disabling the service and restarting sounds like it wont work, as it still stops the configonly shortcut from loading, based on it seeing the fx5500. I'm starting to think I will have to revert back to the 8800 to wipe f@h, make my driver changes and such, and then reinstall f@h and hope that it finds the 8800.
Does anyone have any ideas short of pulling the 5500 out, reverting back to the 8800 as my main gpu in order to stop and uninstall the service, then starting over? Even if I do this, will this work? Has anyone successfully had a PCIe card folding, and a PCI card running the graphics on the same system?
If it matters, this is on WinXP Pro
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Vgolfmaster