1. Home
  2. Solidworks CAD Design software
  3. New System Specs - Suggestions?

New System Specs - Suggestions?

Hi,

I recently purchased a new system (for about 2K), with the following specs:

-Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 2.4GhZ processor

-Asus P5B Deluxe WiFi edition mobo

-2GB Kingston Ram

-620W Liberty power supply

-nVidia Quadro FX 1500 Graphics card.

Shoudl work tickety-boo, but for some reason the monitor keeps flashing off randomly - seems to be a driver issue with the nVidia card. Without going into greusome details, after copious amounts of troubleshooting there has been no resolution to this problem, so I feel that I am at a point where I really need to rebuild a system from the ground up.

The types of work I do involve quite a bit of surfacing, and fairly large assemblies with complex surfaces (often around 200 parts, with approximately 25% of them being complex).

I think I might try a new board. A few boards I have considered:

-Asus P5W DH Deluxe (would the ATI CrossFire Technology conflict with the nVidia Quadro FX 1500?)

-Asus nForce board (not sure exactly which one)

Any other suggestions? Any preferences? Any combinations to definitely avoid?

Reply to
skymonkey_14
Loading thread data ...

try the latest approved quadro driver 84.26 rings a bell. i have a fx1400 never an issue are you running the latest SP?

does this happen with one version of SW maybe load 2006 or 2005

just an idea this seems like you say a driver issue 84.26 are pretty old but work fine.

if that doesnt help then maybe its the card something does not sound right maybe even the moniter.

Reply to
ryanhay

thanks for the suggestions, but EVERYTHING, literally everything with this current combination has been tried. It is not the monitor, it is not the VC, it's some crazy invisible conflict that the system just can't handle. I've tried all the drivers, every version of SW from

2005 to 2007 and at this point, I can't waste any more time or money on this system.
Reply to
skymonkey_14

yes ati crossfire is not nvidia compatible

Reply to
mikemcd

interesting... the mobo specs say that it is cross platform GPU....

Reply to
skymonkey_14

Reply to
YouGoFirst

hmmm... this is scaring me now! I'm having a new mobo put in tomorrow (P5N of some description).

I hope this takes care of it. The system actually crashed out today, citing a driver video card issue. nVidia claims that there should be no issue....

Reply to
skymonkey_14

My father-in-law has a NVIDIA card running without any problem in an ATI motherboard. His only limitation is that if he wants to put multiple graphic cards in it, he will have to get ATI cards.

Reply to
YouGoFirst

sorry i didnt know you had only one nvidia card when i hear crossfire i assumed you were using the crossfire linked mode which wont work with nvidias sli

Reply to
mikemcd

Hi skymonkey, I have a P5B deluxe wifi with an nvidia fx1400 and it runs perfectly. I'm not sure what is causing trouble for you but I've bought 4 of the p5b boards in the last 5 months and they all are working great.

One question(although I guess it's too late now!) is about the bios, the bios the p5b (and probably most new boards) is updated practically every week). I think I've updated mine about 5 times since I got it.

Zander

Reply to
Zander

Hi,

thanks for the input. For some reason, I am just having difficulty with the P5B (despite everyone I've talked to not having any difficulty). I'm trying out the P5N, and hopefullly so far, so good.....

Reply to
skymonkey_14

PolyTech Forum website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.