New System Specs - Suggestions?

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Hi,I recently purchased a new system (for about 2K), with the followingspecs:-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 keepsflashing off randomly - seems to be a driver issue with the nVidiacard.  Without going into greusome details, after copious amounts oftroubleshooting there has been no resolution to this problem, so Ifeel that I am at a point where I really need to rebuild a system fromthe ground up.The types of work I do involve quite a bit of surfacing, and fairlylarge assemblies with complex surfaces (often around 200 parts, withapproximately 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 withthe nVidia Quadro FX 1500?)-Asus nForce board (not sure exactly which one)Any other suggestions?  Any preferences?  Any combinations todefinitely avoid?

ryanhay · Accepted Answer

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.

skymonkey_14 · Answer

thanks for the suggestions, but EVERYTHING, literally everything withthis current combination has been tried.  It is not the monitor, it isnot the VC, it's some crazy invisible conflict that the system justcan't handle.  I've tried all the drivers, every version of SW from2005 to 2007 and at this point, I can't waste any more time or moneyon this system.

mikemcd · Answer

yes ati crossfire is not nvidia compatible

skymonkey_14 · Answer

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

YouGoFirst · Answer

Not quite, the incompatibility is only there if you are going to have more than one graphics card installed.  An NVIDIA card will work in a crossfire board, but will not be capable of SLI, the same works in reverse a ATI crossfire cards will not work in crossfire mode on an SLI enabled board.

skymonkey_14 · Answer

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....

YouGoFirst · Answer

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.

mikemcd · Answer

sorry i didnt know you had only one nvidia cardwhen i hear crossfire i assumed you were using the crossfire linkedmodewhich wont work with nvidias sli

Zander · Answer

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

skymonkey_14 · Answer

Hi,thanks for the input.  For some reason, I am just having difficultywith the P5B (despite everyone I've talked to not having anydifficulty).  I'm trying out the P5N, and hopefullly so far, sogood.....

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