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Jay Cousins
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      9th Feb 2004
Hi, I am having a problem with my video card after an upgrade. I have
just upgraded to a new MotherBoard an CPU. The new MB is a Soyo
Dragon Lite. and the processor is a P4 2.8 GHZ with a 533MHZ FSB. I
also upgraded to 1GB of DDR400 RAM. The video card stayed the same.
It is a BFG Asylum GeFroce4 TI 4200 w/ 128MB of RAM. When I hooked
everything back up, all seemed fine. Then I tried to do something in
3D. It locked up the computer hard. Even the 3D pipes screen saver
locked up the system. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the NVIDIA
display drivers, and have uninstalled and reinstalled the AGP driver
for the MB. The only thing that I haven't tried is uninstalling and
reinstalling DirectX 9.0b. Should this make a difference though? Is
there something else that could cause this problem? Please help I am
a little stumped. The CPU is staying steady at 27C.

Thanks,

Jay
 
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      10th Feb 2004
In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
> Hi, I am having a problem with my video card after an upgrade. I have
> just upgraded to a new MotherBoard an CPU. The new MB is a Soyo
> Dragon Lite. and the processor is a P4 2.8 GHZ with a 533MHZ FSB. I
> also upgraded to 1GB of DDR400 RAM. The video card stayed the same.
> It is a BFG Asylum GeFroce4 TI 4200 w/ 128MB of RAM. When I hooked
> everything back up, all seemed fine. Then I tried to do something in
> 3D. It locked up the computer hard. Even the 3D pipes screen saver
> locked up the system. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the NVIDIA
> display drivers, and have uninstalled and reinstalled the AGP driver
> for the MB. The only thing that I haven't tried is uninstalling and
> reinstalling DirectX 9.0b. Should this make a difference though? Is
> there something else that could cause this problem? Please help I am
> a little stumped. The CPU is staying steady at 27C.
>

It could be the PSU thats not rated high enough. You don't say what it
is. Geforce cards don't draw much power until they start running in 3D.


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Jay Cousins
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      11th Feb 2004
Conor <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
> (E-Mail Removed) says...
> > Hi, I am having a problem with my video card after an upgrade. I have
> > just upgraded to a new MotherBoard an CPU. The new MB is a Soyo
> > Dragon Lite. and the processor is a P4 2.8 GHZ with a 533MHZ FSB. I
> > also upgraded to 1GB of DDR400 RAM. The video card stayed the same.
> > It is a BFG Asylum GeFroce4 TI 4200 w/ 128MB of RAM. When I hooked
> > everything back up, all seemed fine. Then I tried to do something in
> > 3D. It locked up the computer hard. Even the 3D pipes screen saver
> > locked up the system. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the NVIDIA
> > display drivers, and have uninstalled and reinstalled the AGP driver
> > for the MB. The only thing that I haven't tried is uninstalling and
> > reinstalling DirectX 9.0b. Should this make a difference though? Is
> > there something else that could cause this problem? Please help I am
> > a little stumped. The CPU is staying steady at 27C.
> >

> It could be the PSU thats not rated high enough. You don't say what it
> is. Geforce cards don't draw much power until they start running in 3D.


Yes, sorry about that. The power supply is an Ultra 400Watt ATX Power
Supply with 120mm Cooling Fan - Gold-Color. I am also running Win2K
Pro. I am even able to get 1.6V to the video card.

-Jay
 
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