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7900 GT Artifacts only in windows

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Hello.

Last week I recieved my EVGA 7900 GT CO. At first I was very happy. But when I installed
the card it had excactly the same problem as my XFX 6600.

With the 6600 I could not install any other driver then the one on the cd. So after a long search someone said that I had to perform a motherboard bios update. After the update I instantly could install new drivers but then came the artifacts in Windows.

Lucky for me an ATI X800 XL was ordered. With this card i didn't have any problems anymore.


I see that the most people are having problems with playing games. But my 7900 gt performes great when I am playing games.

I dont know what to do and I am already planning to buy a new motherboard.

Does someone have the same problem and/or know how to fix it. Please help. I would be very greatfull.:respect:
 
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its an unusual problem.. not one i have come across..

trog
 
It seems to be the motherboard. It's an MSI RS480 with ATI express 200 chipset.

Maybe it is a conflict between Ati and Nvidia drivers.
 
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