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Have you tried the latest drivers...from Nvidia?
Yea, did that from the get go. No, the older card is still coming up registered in the system somehow and I haven't a clue as to how to make that go away. The new card is functioning great so far.
7 or 8.1?
You may actually have to uninstall the drivers, reboot and then reinstall them.
Windows 8.1
I'm not sure if it works the same on 8.1, but in 7, I had to put the old card back in, then reinstall the drivers...then uninstall them. Then, shut down the machine and install the new card...then install the updated drivers, after Windows installed whatever version it found for them.
YIKES.... well I think if this old registry entry that keeps showing up in lists is just that I'm not going to worry about it. I did actually uninstall the older NVIDIA drivers and rebooted earlier today but that entry is still showing up in these driver search apps I've been running off and on all day seeing if the different things I kept trying would eventually do away with what seems to simply be some old entry stuff, buried deep in the registry or in some Widows system folder.
Well, if after doing all the reasonable suggestions above it still is giving you problems, you could go to the computer or graphics card help sites to see what they say.
Or, you could try all the stuff above again.
Or you could try a benign Registry cleaner scan to see if it identifies the offending Registry entries. Then you could search your soul, toss a coin, find a 4-leaf clover and try letting it perform the cleaning operations. You could also put your hand in a wood chipper which might be as much fun.
Edited to add:
You said you removed the old drivers. Did you remove them while the card was installed, or after you'd removed the card? I'm always very muddy about driver install/remove operations and just pray to the computer spirits while trying all possible permutations of actions.
What was annoying to me...I was going from one Nvidia card to another one...that used the SAME drivers...and it wasn't until I uninstalled them with the old card in that I got rid of it.
Windows is part pack rat...
I agree.. Windows can be a bit of a pack rat... The card was gone from the system after I uninstalled the drivers so maybe that's part of it still showing up... I booted up no issue at all this AM.
I have this card! I haven't tried IRAY yet, how does it handle it?
Funny you should ask. I just did my very first render using it.... OMG... This same scene with my older card was about 15 minutes total.. this was about 35 seconds.... AND the render looks better. I see on the flooring that the shadows are playing along with the reflection (which I DID NOT set up, it just happened).
This is Hivewire's Dusk, Hero Hair also from Hivewire and my Groovy Bells I've been working on for him (there are other parts to the set but just trying to get the JCM's and the MCM's done for the pants....). Simple plane for the floor with some background I had, made a bump and displacement out of a grayscale version of that background. The main background is from a pack I have from Designfera called "Cyber" I believe and got those from 'Rosity!
Yup, quite happy so far. Now to dig into iRay a bit more when I have more time.... sigh... which is never! :-/
Awesome! I need to do the same (dig into iray) but I also have no time.
Must be something going around. I was online yesterday reading a forum thread and my screen abruptly went black.
The computer was still running, but without an image I hadn't a clue.
After a few tries and running disk maintenance I find that it will boot normally, but if I try to take it online it blacks out again within 15 minutes. No idea what is going on there. It will also black out if I leave it running Time Machine and go off to do errands for some 3 hours (no idea how long to took to black out under those conditions). If I can get it fixed I'll keep it in a closet to get at legacy software, but I think it's time to retire it from daily use.
Well, it's getting onto 4 years old and has been heavily used for all of them, and I was considering replacing it if it lasted until the end of the year anyway, so I've ordered its replacement. I find the current models can take twice the RAM and have moved from Raedon to NVIDIA. Nice to hear.
Now I just need to port everything over and find out how much legacy software I'm still running that can't be ported.
Something goin' 'round for sure. I turned on my laptop which hadn't been used for a month and it came up and connected to the Internet and told me I needed some Microsoft updates so I let it do its thing and everything installed OK. I let the system reboot and then I left it alone long enough to go into sleep mode, then when I come back I decided to run a new Norton A/V check but now the system says it can't find web pages. Not even Google.com. I try all sorts of things without success. I have other computers in the network that could get out through the router and DSL modem but the laptop wouldn't.
I finally changed the IP address for DNS service from "automatic" to "8.8.8.8" (Google's public DNS server) and it started working and finds all my usual sites OK. Hmmm... I haven't figured out exactly why yet but I'll run it with the "8.8.8.8" server for a while then switch back to "automatic" sometime to see if the problem returns.
Now that the laptop has Internet access I went into "SafeMode with Networking" and downloaded a fresh copy of MalwareBytes. It found no problems. I rebooted to full mode and let Norton get its latest updates and run a full scan of the system. Again, all OK. No proxy's had been set, no other problems with the system noted, but for a while my laptop just wouldn't play well with the DNS server on my local DSL modem. Go figure.
I'm telling you guys... Mercury in Retrograde messes up communications and machines for some reason... SUCKS! lol
So how long until Mercury turns around and starts going forward again?
I'd kind of like it to have done so before I start porting everything over from backup (of course first the replacement computer needs to show up...)
June 12, then you're good until September
Oh good. Apple just sent me email which says it ought to show up then.
Apple knows! lol
Oh, probably. Not that they actually plan it that way...
June 12, then you're good until September
Nope! It's over now! :)
Now, if only Saturn could join that party...