graphic card problem

[Reza]

I have problem with my graphic card, I have done many
upgrades, 3 time reinstall WinXP Pro, nothing works:
my machine:
motherboard: ASUS P4S533-X, socket 478 (apg 4x)
graphic: nVIDIA, GeForce4 N440SE, 64Mb (agp card)
256Mb SDRAM
230W power suply <3.3v,14A>, <5v,22A>, <12v,8A>, <-
12v,0.8A>, <-5v,0.5A>, <5v Sb,1A>
one Floppy and one CD driver, 20G hard disk, LAN and
sound on board.

I updated BIOS, DirectX 9, Graphic driver(ver. 44.03) and
100 times reboot...
When I reboot the computer with graphic driver enable,
system either freezes or gets problem with refereshing.
so i had to disable the device.
please let me know what might be the problem

 

[Steve Filler]

Did you say 230w power supply? Not sure if it will correct your issue or
not, but you simply must get more power, say 300w minimum, 400w couldn't
hurt. It's possible that you are running out of power, especially on
start-up where a bunch of stuff is happening at once.

 

[Donald Link]

AGP graphic cards can be a bear on some motherboards and sometime the
motherboard manufacture requires a driver to enable AGP prior to installing
the card. I know I have a 2200xp adm chip and a VIA motherboard with on
board video. I disabled the onboard and tried APP graphic cards from ATI
and nvidia chipsets and had more problems than I could stand so I purchased
a PCI Radeon 7500 and it has worked perfect with games and applications.

 

[bob]

Win XP has some problems with refresh, setting it to
60mhz i beleive on some nvidia cards, if so go to
guru3d.com and download a fix for it there, may help may
not.

Good luck