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    Re: Ordered new gaming pc

    Should have noticed it was a Gainward card. Uninstall Expertool and use the latest certified Drivers from the NVidia website like Dreaming says. I usually download the drivers needed and put them on a memory stick before I start the install.

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    Re: Ordered new gaming pc

    Thanks guys for your help - it's working fine now! I ended up wiping the hdd are re-installing windows vista, i then installed the latest nVidia driver from their website & scraped Expertool. I haven't installed the driver cd which came with the motherboard, should i do this? or find the latest drivers from the internet? or just leave the motherboard drivers because windows is working fine and it hasn't noticed anything wrong with the motherboard drivers...

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    Re: Ordered new gaming pc

    From what I can see the drivers on the website are all 2008 vintage so these would probably be more recent than the disk. There is a chipset driver, which I would tend to install, because although the generic drivers seem to be working OK, you may find some odd behaviour later on when you start to do different things. Then there is a LAN driver and an Audio driver. I don't expect you're using the LAN, as you have a WiFi card (indeed I would make sure it's disabled in the BIOS) but you probably are using the audio and I would install those as they probably contain support for recent games and/or programs.

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    Re: Ordered new gaming pc

    Quote Originally Posted by Thorsson View Post
    From what I can see the drivers on the website are all 2008 vintage so these would probably be more recent than the disk. There is a chipset driver, which I would tend to install, because although the generic drivers seem to be working OK, you may find some odd behaviour later on when you start to do different things. Then there is a LAN driver and an Audio driver. I don't expect you're using the LAN, as you have a WiFi card (indeed I would make sure it's disabled in the BIOS) but you probably are using the audio and I would install those as they probably contain support for recent games and/or programs.
    Could you link me to the right drivers for the GA-P35-DS3L. Thankyou very much for helping me.

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    Re: Ordered new gaming pc

    this is for rev 2.0 but you can click 1.0 above the image

    GIGABYTE - Support - Motherboard - Driver - GA-P35-DS3L (rev. 2.0)

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    Re: Ordered new gaming pc

    Quote Originally Posted by mightymouse View Post
    this is for rev 2.0 but you can click 1.0 above the image

    GIGABYTE - Support - Motherboard - Driver - GA-P35-DS3L (rev. 2.0)
    Thankyou. I've downloaded the audio and chipset drivers. i didn't download the LAN driver, as I won't be using it.

    Many thanks for your help again.

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