well i got myself a new motherboard (Asus K8N-VM) and installed my 6800GS on it but for some reason when i installed the display drivers that came on the CD, windows kept freezing everytime i rebooted and came up to the desktop. i had to boot into safe mode and uninstall the display drivers to use the computer. when i got airtel to get me back online again (windows reinstall) i downloaded the latest forcewares and this seemed to have fixed the problem but when i tried installing the drivers for a frontech pci lan card, the same thing started happening again. i have now disabled the lan card and stuff seems to be working fine but i really need it to work as my mom and bro need to access the internet from the other computer which was supposed to be connected to my PC through that. any suggestions? another thing is, i'm unable to get the onboard ethernet port to work no matter what i do... i have tried installing the ethernet driver that came with the mobo cd more than 10 times.. but no luck lol. my modem is now on usb which seems to have lowered my speeds by about 10 to 15 kbps :S. any help would be much appreciated. thanks in advance guys.
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I think you need to install the nforce drivers to enable the onboard lan.(also make sure onboard lan is enabled in bios)
So d/l and install the nforce drivers from nvidia's site. the latest version is 7.13
Things to do -
Update your bios to the latest version.
Download the latest nforce drivers(for your mobo and iirc, also to use the onboard lan).
Also, get the latest drivers for pci lan card.
So d/l and install the nforce drivers from nvidia's site. the latest version is 7.13
Things to do -
Update your bios to the latest version.
Download the latest nforce drivers(for your mobo and iirc, also to use the onboard lan).
Also, get the latest drivers for pci lan card.
update : when i installed the latest chipset drivers, the onboard lan was detected fine so thanks for that dipdude. about the PCI ethernet card.. i'm not able to remove the screw 
the guy who put my mobo in screwed it in way too tight. when i enable it in device manager, it gets recognized as Asound 10/100mbit something and it seems to cause the mouse pointer in windows to stop responding frequently... on reboot the desktop just freezes. is there any way to change the irq without changing it to another slot? i also checked its irq in device manager and it doesn't seem to have the same number as any other device. could it be a driver related problem? however on my older motherboard, this lan card didnt work without the drivers.. but it didnt crash my system either.
the guy who put my mobo in screwed it in way too tight. when i enable it in device manager, it gets recognized as Asound 10/100mbit something and it seems to cause the mouse pointer in windows to stop responding frequently... on reboot the desktop just freezes. is there any way to change the irq without changing it to another slot? i also checked its irq in device manager and it doesn't seem to have the same number as any other device. could it be a driver related problem? however on my older motherboard, this lan card didnt work without the drivers.. but it didnt crash my system either.update #2: one more problem to the list :/ when i right click or shift delete any video file, the screen flickers or goes to black for a second and back before displaying the dialog box or contextual menu. no idea what's causing it.
edit : fixed this by following http://www.slingers.karoo.net/nvidia_gforce_screen_flash.htm
edit : fixed this by following http://www.slingers.karoo.net/nvidia_gforce_screen_flash.htm
I didn't get what you mean by chipset drivers. There are no chipset drivers that are needed to be installed in PCI-E systems. The NV driver bundle has the SMBUS(useless IMHO), Audio(onboard sound if u use) and Network drivers. Could you post the name of the chip on that lan card.
the chipset drivers are what came with the motherboard CD i.e the nforce drivers. i updated that to nForce4_7.13_winxp2k_international_whql.exe and got my onboard ethernet working. about the pci add on ethernet card, i'm not sure what it is but its a cheap frontech one which afaik came with Realtek drivers.
i couldn't fix it to another slot since there seem to be only 2 regular pci slots and they are really close to the pci-e slot and so it gets blocked by the huge 6800GS. i bought another d-link pci ethernet card and installed it.. everything's running great now. thank you guys for all your help. hopefully the computer stays stable from now on 
now i just have to figure out why the fps in q4 and hl2 seems to fluctuate from 30 to 200 :/
now i just have to figure out why the fps in q4 and hl2 seems to fluctuate from 30 to 200 :/
^ The problem I've found with Cheapo NIC cards like Frontech, Intex etc is that they arent actual Realtek chipsets, sadly they tend to be fake chips! Had a similar problem way back too with an Intex NIC which supposedly had a Realtek 8139D chipset .. the Realtek drivers just wouldnt work, and Windows would always load up the Asound Ethernet drivers which would render the system unstable. Much later, I checked the Floppy disk that came with the card and found that the drivers included weren't even Realtek drivers!
Like you, I went out and bought a higher-quality D-Link card that was using the same Realtek 8139 chipset - drivers installed fine, and system was absolutely stable from that day on. Moral of the story, the 50~100 buck difference spent for higher quality NICs like D-Link will save you a lot of hassle
P.S: Shifting this to Troubleshooting section.
Like you, I went out and bought a higher-quality D-Link card that was using the same Realtek 8139 chipset - drivers installed fine, and system was absolutely stable from that day on. Moral of the story, the 50~100 buck difference spent for higher quality NICs like D-Link will save you a lot of hassle
P.S: Shifting this to Troubleshooting section.
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