More problems with NVIDIA chipset motherboard

george_ou@lanarchitect.net — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:18:00 GMT

The NVIDIA 7150 integrated graphics motherboard and chipset is giving me more problems. This is the XFX nForce 630i model MG-630i-7159 motherboard I'm testing which has a lot of potential when I overclocked an Intel Allendale to 2.93 GHz effortlessly.

I really want to love this motherboard and chipset for all its potential at an affordable price, but I still can't get S3 sleep state working and the system locks up after I wake it up and log in. I still can't get a good answer from NVIDIA nor have I heard from XFX regarding the problem. I don't know if it's the motherboard implementation or NVIDIA drivers.

Now I'm having problems with the NVIDIA desktop resize utility which is impossible to use on a DLP screen that overscans the edges. For some reason I can't see all the controls on the resize screen and the continue button is probably off the edge of the screen. Even when I manage to change the settings, it snaps back to the default setting as soon as I click apply in the NVIDIA control panel. I resized the screen to a slightly lower resolution that's about a little more than 1700x900 pixels and that makes it slightly more usable but it's less than ideal.

This is also a good reason to really dislike rear projection screens because they chop the edges off. My particular model is also interlaced even though it claims to be a "1080p" display.

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More problems with NVIDIA chipset motherboard