Thanks for the guide, was having some issues with some GTX 295. I didn´t tried the vga audio tip, so i´m disabling it now. Hope I have less errors tight now.

Hello,
I have installed the 8400 GS and have yet to get it to work.  I've emailed back & forth with customer support and followed their instructions as best I can, but to no avail.  Can someone please help me?  Computer noob here!
 
I have:
Dell inspiron 530
Windows XP
530v power supply
upgraded from nVidia 8300 GE which went dead
 
I've installed Driver Fusion, deleted drivers, etc., and each time I reinstall the downloaded EVGA driver, my colors go nuts.  I have to reboot into safe mode and remove all the nVidia drivers just so I can have the screen back to normal.  If you have advice, please write in "Computers for Dummies" speak.  Most of this stuff is a foreign language to me!
 
Thanks in advance!

larabrazell

Hello,
I have installed the 8400 GS and have yet to get it to work.  I've emailed back & forth with customer support and followed their instructions as best I can, but to no avail.  Can someone please help me?  Computer noob here!

I have:
Dell inspiron 530
Windows XP
530v power supply
upgraded from nVidia 8300 GE which went dead

I've installed Driver Fusion, deleted drivers, etc., and each time I reinstall the downloaded EVGA driver, my colors go nuts.  I have to reboot into safe mode and remove all the nVidia drivers just so I can have the screen back to normal.  If you have advice, please write in "Computers for Dummies" speak.  Most of this stuff is a foreign language to me!

Thanks in advance!

check all connections, but you may need to contact evga. Sounds like a faulty video card.

Since this is a sticky:
 
Wouldn't a clean install accomplish this anyway?

 
Nice guide. Thanks.     

I have a new EVGA 8400GS 1MB card. It works great with my Linux OS but not with my Windows 7 OS. I dual boot.
When the HDMI cable is plugged into my Samsung HDMI TV, the computer screen briefly turns black and then returns to the desktop
wallpaper. However, there are no longer any icons or mouse cursor on the screen and I cannot do anything at all. No keyboard commands work
and I cannot do anything until I pull the HDMI cable out of the graphics card. It seems weird that it works with Linux (not recommended by EVGA)
but not Windows 7.
I have installed the latest drivers as well as older drivers but the result is exactly the same. 
I need to use Windows because I want to use Dish Sling which doesn't work with Linux.
Anybody have any suggestions or similar problems?
Thanks in advance.
 

NVidia drivers 314.22 always worked for full SLI plus SLI Surround with 3 HDTVs on my 560s in SLI. I use these to check and see if its a the drivers or lack of support . They are my truth meter.

Hi - I am new to this computer repair forum stuff. I have a few computers in my house that have always been "adequate". I am not a gamer or anything. I use them for email, word processing, connecting to my printer, some research of mechanical topics, facebooking and some buying and selling on ebay. One of my desktop computers which was about a 2007 version with Windows XP SP2 had crashed a while ago and I had no time or money to fix it. I decided to get it running again, so I installed an XP upgrade and repair so it now has SP3 in it. My plan is to make this machine suitable run windows 7 or 8/8.1 (for obvious reasons in this day and age). Windows upgrade advisor said that I needed to deal with several items as follows:  
1. More space on a hard drive (I could swap the position of the 60gb drive but why?)
2. A graphics adaptor with at least 256mb of RAM
3. More on board RAM (1gb minimum)
4. A different email program (which is not a hardware issue)
5. It was not a listed item but I installed a CD/DVD RW drive.
 
 I installed 2gb of RAM (the max it will accept). It works a lot more smoothly. I talked nice to one of my tech friends who has some lines on a few good used low priced 500gb - 1tb hard drives (the machine presently has 2 drives with 20gb & 60gb that are only about half full) - One will be in my hands soon. Finally, I recently obtained a new eVGA GeForce 6200 AGP 512mb video card for a low, low price. It is this last item which has given me the grief.
 
After installing the adaptor, I looked at the BIOS and reset a few values AGP 3.0 was supported so I set the aperture to 1gb and 8X for the speed, I guess. I could not find a reference to the original onboard graphics adaptor anywhere in any feature on the BIOS. It appeared to have "self-diabled" upon installation of the AGP adaptor. The computer fired up okay and it went through some kind of search for a driver which it seemed to find. The device manager shows a number of 6.14.11.7519 NVIDIA for the version of the driver. I then installed the driver from the CD in the package. It all seemed to install okay and needed a reboot in order to take effect. After the restart, the machine would go through the procedure and get to the the page where I had to choose my name and log in. At this point, the operating system froze. I let it sit for about a minute but it did not unfreeze. I finally had to push reset to restart the machine. I repeated this several times and was able to get a minute more of running time or less than the first attempt - it seemed completely random. I managed to get the task manager up on one attempt which showed no huge RAM usage (1700mb free) and 83% CPU usage...normal for startup on this machine. The screen locked so I could see the numbers. This has recurred at least a dozen times since I first tried. 
 
I ended up booting into safe mode and the computer works. I uninstalled the driver at about failed start #6 and tried starting again in normal mode. It appeared to start okay and not freeze so, I reinstalled the drivers again...After restart - the same problem...and over and over again. I began looking for answers online. I tried several things. Uninstalling the driver, installing an older one - same thing...Uninstalling that driver and installing another yet older one....same thing and maybe worse) but all through it - every time in safe mode, no problems...Reading about nvidia drivers seemed to indicate that, unless a clean sweep is somehow made when removing the drivers, there are, in all likelihood, other files that did not get removed that can conflict with the next installation. I manually searched for every instance of evga, geforce and invidia and deleted them. After booting up again, it still froze after a minute, which required a reset and reboot into safe mode for another inspection - where I found out the present driver. I left the computer running and, after about one hour, there is no lockup in safe mode. I have no other drivers to try so, I am at a loss. Can anyone hepl me with this one?
 
Computer info follows:
MoBo - MSI ms7222 1.1  PM8PM-V Series (MS-7222 v2.0) Micro-ATX Mainboard. (Supports AGP 3.0 8X/4X)
VIA® P4M800Pro chipset & VIA® VT8237RPlus chipset
Intel Pentium 4/ Prescott (LGA 775) processor socket w/Intel Celeron 3.06gb CPU
2gb 240 pin DDR2 RAM
Optimax Titan PSU Model ATX 450PS (input 115-230V @ 6A) outputs +3.3V @ 28A, +5V @ 35A, +12V @ 22A,
                                                     -5V @ 0.5A,-12V @ 1A, +5Vsb @ 2A
Windows XP Build 2600.xpsp_sp3_qfe.130704-0421:
Netgear WPN311 WiFi Adaptor
HDD 1 - 20gb Maxtor 7200 rpm IDE drive with OS and several other programs and utilities 14gb+ used, 5gb+ free
HDD 2 - 60gb Maxtor 7200 rpm IDE drive with older (XP)OS, many gb of files and programs 32gb used 23gb free.
(From the MoBo Manual) The AGP slot allows you to insert the AGP graphics card. AGP is an interface specification designed for the throughput demands of 3D graphics. It introduces a 66MHz, 32-bit channel for the graphics controller to directly access main memory. The slot supports AGP card for 8x/4x at 1.5v (3.3v is not supported).
The heat sink on the card is running at about 41 - 42C (measured with an infrared non contact thermometer)....
 
My question is now - What could possibly be going on in this computer - hardware or software related - that would cause this? Did I just end up with a video adapter that "does not play well" with the chipsets on my MoBo?....any ideas on what I should do to fix it? (and the obvious answer is get a newer computer, but there is no money for that right now).
Thanx 
 
 

More to my VGA problem. I have, to date, received no responses from anywhere (I posted variations of this in three places on the internet).
Further reading had indicated that the nvidia drivers with differing numbers may well not be completely uninstalled after unistallation and that I needed to manually search for and remove for all instances of nvidia files. I did this and, after doing so, I reinstalled the card and let the computer install whatever driver it wanted. It reinstalled the original old 6.14.11.7519 driver and the computer ran on it for an hour or so. I played with word processor files, pictures, pdfs, and the internet. While looking through facebook, I started to see odd stuff....task manager kept showing ever rising amounts of RAM usage by IE8 - up to 900mb. I exited and tried the same with google chrome and it too showed a slow but steady rise - to 870mb+ - I opened a posted video which ran for a few minutes and then my computer froze - again. A few more restarts kept allowing me to run - unless I opened a video. It did not matter if it was adobe flash on the internet or windows media player and a saved mp3 file....3 to 5 seconds and the computer would freeze. T also tried streaming radio for "fun" (to use up RAM space mostly) and then ran pinball (which is the most advanced game I own) simultaneously ...It ran okay for 10 minutes or so with no freeze up..... 
 To me, this indicates that there seem to be no real hardware conflicts anyway...
So, what then? Does the card need the newest driver in order to recognize the card's onboard RAM...and, if so, does anyone know how to install the newest driver while simultaneously sweeping the old driver and all of its related files and registry entries?
 
 

It could be bad RAM. Have you run Memtest86+ overnight to check for errors? http://www.memtest.org/
It could be heat also. When was the last time you blew the dust out of your heatsinks? When was the last time you applied fresh thermal compound to your CPU or video board?