SOLVED Problem with Hercules Prophet GTS 64DDR

[Howard]

I just reformatted my hard drive and installed the above mentioned card. I've had other G'force cards in my system with never a problem. When I installed this card I started getting corruption even while installing windows. Thin green vertical lines that appeared on my screen. I proceeded with the install and figured once I installed the drivers the problem would disappear, however it didn't. After I installed the drivers off the CD my system would lock up a short time after my desktop appeared. All I had to do was just click on a couple of things then I'd be locked up. My system was "not" overclocked during install......any ideas?

PIII 700@1030 w/alpha, Abit BE6 II Ver 1.0, 256MB mushkin Rev 2.0, Maxtor 7200, NEC Multisync M700

 

[Placid]

You may have a bad card.
Do you have another pc you can test it in?
Also you might want to try some of the things suggested here:
http://www.tweak3d.net/faq/faq.cgi#hw:gef:troub:startup:startlock

 

[Howard]

Hey Placid, this is the third time I've tried to respond but for some reason it's not posting. This is the second card I've tried. I thought the same thing so I had them send me another card, same problem.

 

[Placid]

If the mfg. is of no help with this.
And nothing at the link above helped then try posting here:

http://www.nvnews.net/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro

Alot of Gf owners there.
When you post give all the info you can.
Operating system, motherboard, etc.

 

[Howard]

Placid (May 25, 2001 10:43 a.m.):
If the mfg. is of no help with this.
And nothing at the link above helped then try posting here:

http://www.nvnews.net/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro

Alot of Gf3 owners there.
When you post give all the info you can.
Operating system, motherboard, etc.

Actually the manufacture has been very helpfull. The first card I couldn't even power up and the second card you already know about. So they're now sending me a "third" card!! Thanks for your help..)

 

[Mictlan]

Is this the GTS or the GTS Pro?

I installed my GTS Pro without to much problem. At first there were some problem with some 3dfx files I didn't delete (they were well hidden) so I fdisk-format-windows my HD and since them no problems.

You should d/l lattest Hercules drivers. If I recall therea a 6.something for ME and 7.something for Win 9x and NT. Also check in the Hercules forums, a lot of helpfull people hang in there.

PIII 550E@731 Iwill BD100+ 384 MB 3-3-3 Siemens, Hercules 3D Prophet II GTS Pro.