Problem 9800 GT graphics card

[GAFNA]

When I try to install the driver for my graphics card PNY 9800 gt 512 mb the screen turns black circles in the middle of the installation. it force me to do a reset to restart the machine. I tested a lot of driver downloaded from the site of PNY and NVIDIA's 181.22 to 169.21 and still the same result. I do not know what to do. It runs by default in plug end play.

Config :

Antec Atlas - Box way tower with 550W power supply

ASRock P45TS (Intel P45 Express) - ATX

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 - Dual Core! Socket 775 FSB1333 cache L2 6 MB 0045 micron

Kingston HyperX 4GB (kit 2x 2 GB) DDR2-SDRAM PC8500 CL7

GeForce 9800 GT - 512 MB TV-Out/Dual DVI - PCI Express

Serial ATA hard drive 160 gigabytes

Thanks

[Fidelma]

Looks like a driver issue to me but not sure on which. Check the Gigabyte site for BIOS and driver updates I own a GA-X38-DQ6 and really happy with it.

[Maceo]

It is a must that you are running bios version F14 (which you can get HERE) for that board in order for the system to run the X2 9850 stably, so if you haven't done so, update the bios. After that load the default bios settings once that's done, and redo whatever necessary settings you need.

[Ettan]

As for the power supply, if I remember correctly the 9800GT requires a minimum 400 watt power supply. This doesn't mean the card needs 400 watts as it's a suggestion that includes overall power drain. Since the card draws more power during 3D applications, the fact that you are getting crashes while trying to do so can be indicative that there is not enough power to run the system, however you would normally not get blue screens, but rather the system would simply either shut down, or restart completely.