Just got my GTS but it won't work!!! HELP!!

[Tekk]

Ok...I have a Celeron 433 o/c to 550 on a Abit BF6 mobo. I purchased an MSI MS-8815 GF2 GTS 32mb today. I put the bastage in and pressed the power button. When the normal power beep comes on it instead made one long beep and then a few short beeps afterwards. It won't freaking work!! No picture comes up! So I replaced my V3 in there and its working fine now. I don't get it. I thought that the MSI was AGP 2x/4x compatible and I know my motherboard is only up to 2x compatible. If it is only 4x compatible would the fact that my motherboard doesn't support that high be the hurdle? ARGH!!! I finally get enough dough to get the card and now its not working!!! ****!

[AuraEdge]

First step, put the 433 back down to 433, to keep AGP bus speed unoverclocked.
Then try it again, but make sure its all the way in. If the screw for the side of the AGP card doesnt seem to screw in right without force, take the card out and try again.
If your sure that its inserted fully, and still no video, you may just have a defective card.
Any GF2 GTS should work on a BF6

[Tekk]

Hrmmm....thats what I figured...(the AGP thing doesn't seem to be an issue I guess even tho this card only says AGP 4X while others say AGP 4X/2X. And my BF6 only supports 2X according to manual).

What I should have also put is that when I first installed the card..I forgot to uninstall the V3 drivers that I had in there. So basically I had taken the V3 out without doing anything in windows, put the GTS in and booted into windows. It actually worked the first time. THEN, I tried to install the drivers for it. What happend next is weird. It went through a couple of menu optiony things and then when it started to try and install em, it said something like specified device not found. Tried it several times but it still said the same error. So after that I took out the GF2 and put my V3 back in so I could uninstall the drivers and everything and I did that, turned off the puter, put the GF2 back in and tried it. Thats when the beeping and no picture started. Worked the first time but after that it didn't...AND...my system was at "stock" options (meaning that I wasn't o/c it when I first inserted it). Sooooo...maybe it is just defective.

[Nixona]

Reset the CMOS? Actually, turn it on with the geforce in there and hold down the insert button on your keyboard. If it worked once, it should work again unless it's not seated in there, or you exposed it to some big time static somewhere. Try booting without a video card and compare it to the beeps you get with the geforce.

[Sweeper]

I am having problems with my MSI MS-8815 GF2 GTS 32mb card as well. Just purchased it. Had a geforce 2 mx in, and I was using the 12.00 drivers. Running at 1024x768/100Hz. Pulled the mx out and installed the gts and everything went crazy. Couldn't get over 60hz without the screen getting ghost images to the right, which made it really blurry. Tried all sorts of fixes. Uninstalling the drivers. Cleaning out the registry. Reinstalling new drivers from Nvidia. Nada, nothing worked. Blurry, ghostly shadows, looked terrible. So, I pulled the GTS out and put my MX back in and everything looks perfect using the same drivers that the GTS was running on. MSI might have some defective cards out there. I am taking this one back. I tried all I could to get it to work. Never did get past 60Hz without it going bonkers and getting sever ghostly anomolies.
My system:
MSI K7T Pro 2A (MS6330)
850 Athlon/T-Bird (not overclocked)
256 PC133
Sound Blaster live (value)
Maxtor 7200 UDMA66 13.6 gig HD
cardexpert geforce 2 mx 175/166

[Hellmund]

Sweeper, even though the MX and GTS both use detonater 12.00's they actually have different drivers.If you right-click on the desktop and go to properties and adapter it'll probaly still say MX. Just change the adapter,put the same directory as where you got the driver from the Det12's and it'll say GTS. That should fix that problem.
Tech, I've got a BF6 lying around and it's had a GTS in it running fine, it's not the board. There is a CMOS discharge jumper , it's right next to the chipset which is near the lithium battery. If you reset the CMOS and you still get one reeeeaaaaal long beep the card is more than likely defective.

[Sweeper]

Hellmund
Actually it did pick up the GTS card and told me to restart. When I restarted it showed GeForce 2 GTS/GeForce 2 GTS Pro for the adapter instead of MX. But, the screen is still real blurry. Ghostly shadowing of everything. And I can't get higher than 60Hz or it gets so bad I can't even see. I put the MX in and it detected it , did a restart and all is well again. Crystal clear. ???

[Nixona]

With some setups you have to change the video card to "standard vga" and uninstall the current video card drivers, turn off the computer, switch to the new video card, turn it back on and install the drivers. If it auto-detects when you bring it back up, then it may be using that old driver still. Have you tried this?

[Sweeper]

Yes. Switched to standard vga then rebooted and loaded the nvidia drivers. Still no go. Everything is still blurry. It looks like all the letters and even graphics have a shadow extending about .88 mm to the right. The higher the resolution the worse it gets.

Sweeper

[Hellmund]

Try the Detonator 6.50's of the NVIDIA Website and see if that makes a difference, the 12.00's may not like your board. Might also try Re-installing DX8, that might do it come to think of it.