3DMARK 2005 Scores

[pumbertot]

Its exactly the same gfx card an x800 pro with exactly the same drivers.

was thinking you might say that.i think something isnt quite right.
is the gfx card maybe stock now and was overclocked before?

[wedge22]

No its at stock speed and always was. I have had alot of problems setting up my new pc but it does seem to be working ok now. my only problem is that it will not update to the latest Nforce 3 drivers using MSi live update, it downloads them and begins extraction but then it just dissapears from the screen. The bios update worked fine though.

[pumbertot]

No its at stock speed and always was. I have had alot of problems setting up my new pc but it does seem to be working ok now. my only problem is that it will not update to the latest Nforce 3 drivers using MSi live update, it downloads them and begins extraction but then it just dissapears from the screen. The bios update worked fine though.

get them from www.nvidia.com
unified drivers.

[CrapshoT]

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=142346

[wedge22]

get them from www.nvidia.com

So i dont have to use the msi ones then?

[wedge22]

Well i downloaded them and it did exactly the same thing, the nvidia logo pops up they begin extracting and then, nothing it just stops and dissapears. Whats going on?

[pumbertot]

Well i downloaded them and it did exactly the same thing, the nvidia logo pops up they begin extracting and then, nothing it just stops and dissapears. Whats going on?

something is up defo.try as repair of your windows installation and if it doesnt fresh install im afraid.explains the crap score though but defo something wrong.

[MuTTy_Hc]

Well still if furturemark were to do that they would kill of any reputation they have right now as a good benchmark.

They don't have any reputation lol. Their benchmark is very linear, just people like using it because its the most commercial one there is.

[wedge22]

something is up defo.try as repair of your windows installation and if it doesnt fresh install im afraid.explains the crap score though but defo something wrong.

Damn I will give it a go and hope it works. The entire windows installation was a pain as I have a SATA drive and the mobo instructions were pretty useless as far as sata was concerned. I really dont think the mobo drivers are installed correctly, as it will not update to the new ones.

[pumbertot]

Damn I will give it a go and hope it works. The entire windows installation was a pain as I have a SATA drive and the mobo instructions were pretty useless as far as sata was concerned. I really dont think the mobo drivers are installed correctly, as it will not update to the new ones.

what socket 754 motherboard is it mate?

[wedge22]

Its a MSi K8N neo platinum fitted with a maxtor diamond max 3 250gb hdd.It has 2x512mb sticks of ocz pc3200 ddr.

[pumbertot]

Its a MSi K8N neo platinum fitted with a maxtor diamond max 3 250gb hdd.It has 2x512mb sticks of ocz pc3200 ddr.

you didnt need to insatll any sata drivers during installation.hte sata controller is native to the chipset, so no pressing f6 required.its only when you got 2 satas in raid that you need to. also make sure the drive is connected via sata port 3.

sata ports 1&2 do not allow overclocking much as there buses are not locked.

so re-install XP but dont press f6 during it.hte sata drive will be seen.

[wedge22]

Well I never pressed F6 to install it mate as I have a slipstreamed version of win xp with service pack 2. I also have my sata drive in port 3 as I had already read the info about overclocking. So now I need to know if Ihave not installed the mobo drivers correctly, when should I have installed them?

[pumbertot]

Well I never pressed F6 to install it mate as I have a slipstreamed version of win xp with service pack 2. I also have my sata drive in port 3 as I had already read the info about overclocking. So now I need to know if Ihave not installed the mobo drivers correctly, when should I have installed them?

the mobo drivers go in after xp has finished. however mate just to point out that SP2 is causing great problems on A64 my setup included with random freezes and other BSODs. Do a repair using XP with SP1 or XP and then install SP1, forget SP2 period!

[wedge22]

Damn so this may all be down to SP2 then and nothing else. I may attempt a re install tonight then as my XP disc has SP1a included on it.

[pumbertot]

Damn so this may all be down to SP2 then and nothing else. I may attempt a re install tonight then as my XP disc has SP1a included on it.

yes it might well be.a repair of your XP installation by booting from the CD using the sp1a inc will get rid of sp2 files.