Just bought myself a nice fuck off graphics card: the 9800gtx.
No I'm not here to brag. The bitch produces images that are too high res for my monitor. It just goes "well fuck that" and displays nothing but an "out of range" error. Cant sort it out through bios.
So now I have to fork out £100 for a new monitor to go with it.
I'm pissed off now.
And if you're curious the card cost £140.
Just bought a 9800gtx+
Re: Just bought a 9800gtx+
Wut?
The graphics card produces *too high* res?
I can whack out a whopping 800*600 if I turn it down (8800gts 512), and you're telling me that the 9800gtx+ can't do as low as your monitor's resolution?
I'll assume the "out of range" is displayed by your monitor, not the card. You've pressed the auto adjust button on your monitor if it's a tft? When the card starts up i'm fairly sure it only ever outputs anything at it's minimum resolution until it's told otherwise (aren't all POST and bios screens 800*600? del?) and as such the only thing that could be out of range is the frequency it's providing...
I'm also going to assume that the graphics card is all plugged in and powered up ok, and that you've told the bios to begin sending graphics signals to the pci express slot rather than the agp/pci slots? I have a setting in my bios that can either be PEG or AGP... (i doubt this will help though)
Why a new monitor?
Get somebody else's monitor, boot into windows, install drivers, turn the settings down, plug yours back in.
I refuse to believe that your graphics card is *too good* for your screen
The graphics card produces *too high* res?
I can whack out a whopping 800*600 if I turn it down (8800gts 512), and you're telling me that the 9800gtx+ can't do as low as your monitor's resolution?
I'll assume the "out of range" is displayed by your monitor, not the card. You've pressed the auto adjust button on your monitor if it's a tft? When the card starts up i'm fairly sure it only ever outputs anything at it's minimum resolution until it's told otherwise (aren't all POST and bios screens 800*600? del?) and as such the only thing that could be out of range is the frequency it's providing...
I'm also going to assume that the graphics card is all plugged in and powered up ok, and that you've told the bios to begin sending graphics signals to the pci express slot rather than the agp/pci slots? I have a setting in my bios that can either be PEG or AGP... (i doubt this will help though)
Why a new monitor?
Get somebody else's monitor, boot into windows, install drivers, turn the settings down, plug yours back in.
I refuse to believe that your graphics card is *too good* for your screen
Re: Just bought a 9800gtx+
I'm serious. When I power up with the graphics card installed it changes the resolution to max or something because no matter how low I set the resolution the card raises it again. It's a pain in the ass.
Doesn't help that my monitor only supports vga so I have to use a dvi-vga adapter.
Doesn't help that my monitor only supports vga so I have to use a dvi-vga adapter.
Re: Just bought a 9800gtx+
I'm with nova on this. I cant see why a graphics card newly installed is giving you this error.
My suggestion would be to go to safe mode and uninstall the nvidia gfx drivers and then use Driver Cleaner to further remove any straggling files.
Upon rebooting the gfx card will be seen by windows and try to install itself. Cancel that and then proceed to install the gfx drivers.
That should leave you with a screen with a res at a standard low size (800 x 600 or 1024 x 768). Adjust to taste afterwards.
If you have your monitor drivers in then your allowed resolution should max out to this without causing the issue you are having unless you specifically set your gfx driver refresh rate higher than your monitor. For instance you couldn't run 1280 x 1024 @ 100hz unless your monitor allows it. (nominally is 60hz at that res)...
..it may be worth removing your monitor from the device manager to reset it in windows in order to repopulate the resolution options against the new gfx card.
What monitor do you have and what were you running before?
My suggestion would be to go to safe mode and uninstall the nvidia gfx drivers and then use Driver Cleaner to further remove any straggling files.
Upon rebooting the gfx card will be seen by windows and try to install itself. Cancel that and then proceed to install the gfx drivers.
That should leave you with a screen with a res at a standard low size (800 x 600 or 1024 x 768). Adjust to taste afterwards.
If you have your monitor drivers in then your allowed resolution should max out to this without causing the issue you are having unless you specifically set your gfx driver refresh rate higher than your monitor. For instance you couldn't run 1280 x 1024 @ 100hz unless your monitor allows it. (nominally is 60hz at that res)...
..it may be worth removing your monitor from the device manager to reset it in windows in order to repopulate the resolution options against the new gfx card.
What monitor do you have and what were you running before?
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Re: Just bought a 9800gtx+
user error!
as the guys have stated, either res is incorrect, or refresh rate is incorrect
2x dvi on card?
cold boot it w/ other connection, it might boot at superfunhappy res?
I dont drive any nvidia atm, so I dunno what the default driver behaviour is like
as the guys have stated, either res is incorrect, or refresh rate is incorrect
2x dvi on card?
cold boot it w/ other connection, it might boot at superfunhappy res?
I dont drive any nvidia atm, so I dunno what the default driver behaviour is like
Re: Just bought a 9800gtx+
btw. install monitor driver 
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Re: Just bought a 9800gtx+
im gonna have to agree with everyone else as i have a 9600GT and my 12 year old 100lbs monitor has no problem with it nor does any other moninitor, oh and have fun trying to keep that bitch cool if its as fat as mine is it will generate fuck loads of heat so ya know
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Re: Just bought a 9800gtx+
I've got it working now, forgot to uninstall the 8600gt's drivers.
And I dont think keeping it cool will be a problem:
The fans light up with blue leds.
And I dont think keeping it cool will be a problem:
The fans light up with blue leds.
