Hi,
I am building an Optiplex GX280 for a friend. It's a fresh install of Windows XP, all updated and GBPVR prereq's installed. It's a P4 3.4Ghz with 2GB RAM. I'm familiar with the capacitor issues these optiplexes have had, but the tops of all the caps in this machine appear to be dead flat and the symptoms aren't consistent with that problem (I suspect that rules bad caps out, but admittedly, you never know). Berfore putting the 9600 in, while doing all the updates and installations etc along with many restarts, it was running perfectly.
I was at the point where GBPVR was installed and runs, but I was having trouble getting the TV picture working nicely / at all. Not too concerned about that yet - I think that's just a matter of playing with mux's and settings etc.. I know that part of things is often a bit tricky (although I did expect to have fewer problems than I did on my own PC, but, oh well
).
The plan was always to get a better graphics card with the thought that graphics performance wouldn't be a problem after it was installed and software was tweaked, and that it might even make all the above problems magically go away. The idea is that with the better graphics component than the integrated one, it will play movies, TV, photos and music etc without missing a beat. I still think (hope) that is the case, BUT...
I just put a new Gigabyte NX96T512HP (a 9600GT) into it. It now blue screens pretty reliably the first time I boot it up after the AC power has been disconnected for a while. It then restarts and the system says it can't see the SATA hard drive. Usually the next time I boot it up manually it's fine, though it seems to be getting slightly flakier over time eg. MMC console crashed this time when I went to look in the logs.. Nvidia system tray didn't load..
When the blue screen happens it's too fast to see the text, it just restarts immediately .. is there anything I can do about that?. The only thing in the logs is Event ID 14, Source "nv", Text: "Unknown error on" .. and that's it!
I occasionally hear a slight, quiet squeal which I think is the hard drive (it almost sounds like a muffled, shortened, system speaker beep, it's so quick), so it does kinda look like the drive could be the problem, but it definitely wasn't doing any of this bluescreening rubbish before the 9600 went in. I have downloaded the latest drivers from Nvidia and updated the BIOS.
I have connected the extra power cable supplied with the card ... is it likely to be a power supply problem? I have another hard drive sitting there which I could try instead, so will try that. I wondered if it would be worth rebuilding Windows with the 9600 installed this time, rather than adding it later .. ?
Appreciate any thoughts offered.
Cheers
Julian.
I am building an Optiplex GX280 for a friend. It's a fresh install of Windows XP, all updated and GBPVR prereq's installed. It's a P4 3.4Ghz with 2GB RAM. I'm familiar with the capacitor issues these optiplexes have had, but the tops of all the caps in this machine appear to be dead flat and the symptoms aren't consistent with that problem (I suspect that rules bad caps out, but admittedly, you never know). Berfore putting the 9600 in, while doing all the updates and installations etc along with many restarts, it was running perfectly.
I was at the point where GBPVR was installed and runs, but I was having trouble getting the TV picture working nicely / at all. Not too concerned about that yet - I think that's just a matter of playing with mux's and settings etc.. I know that part of things is often a bit tricky (although I did expect to have fewer problems than I did on my own PC, but, oh well
). The plan was always to get a better graphics card with the thought that graphics performance wouldn't be a problem after it was installed and software was tweaked, and that it might even make all the above problems magically go away. The idea is that with the better graphics component than the integrated one, it will play movies, TV, photos and music etc without missing a beat. I still think (hope) that is the case, BUT...
I just put a new Gigabyte NX96T512HP (a 9600GT) into it. It now blue screens pretty reliably the first time I boot it up after the AC power has been disconnected for a while. It then restarts and the system says it can't see the SATA hard drive. Usually the next time I boot it up manually it's fine, though it seems to be getting slightly flakier over time eg. MMC console crashed this time when I went to look in the logs.. Nvidia system tray didn't load..
When the blue screen happens it's too fast to see the text, it just restarts immediately .. is there anything I can do about that?. The only thing in the logs is Event ID 14, Source "nv", Text: "Unknown error on" .. and that's it!
I occasionally hear a slight, quiet squeal which I think is the hard drive (it almost sounds like a muffled, shortened, system speaker beep, it's so quick), so it does kinda look like the drive could be the problem, but it definitely wasn't doing any of this bluescreening rubbish before the 9600 went in. I have downloaded the latest drivers from Nvidia and updated the BIOS.
I have connected the extra power cable supplied with the card ... is it likely to be a power supply problem? I have another hard drive sitting there which I could try instead, so will try that. I wondered if it would be worth rebuilding Windows with the 9600 installed this time, rather than adding it later .. ?
Appreciate any thoughts offered.
Cheers
Julian.
