Graphic's card problem

A

adham

I have been having problems with my Radeon 9550 256 mb graphics card
made by Sapphire. Sometimes when im browsing the internet, i notice
that when i click a link, or on a picture, the screen goes black
because it is not recieveing a signal from the graphics card. I know
that because shortly after a "no signal" msg is displayed. Then i
began to download a few games from my direct to drive account. The
first game i had trouble with was swat 4. When i finneshed installing
it and attempted to play, i nocticed that loading took long for an AMD
3200+, 2000 MHz, 1 gig ram computer. When the menu finally came, all
the text was disfigured in the sense that they would contantly be
flickering and changing. The background picture was fine. Then when i
tried to play a game, it would take its time to load, again with the
disfigured text. When the game would load, it would usually play for
about a minute and then freeze. Then id have to restart my computer.
this happened every time i played it, and my computer had more then
the minimum hardware requirements to play the game. I then downloaded
Return to castle wolfenstein, and when attempting to play the
multiplayer game, the computer would freeze, and the screen would go
black because there is no signal. While this was happening the
background music would continue to play for about 30 seconds more,
then id have to restart it. Then i tried with Star Wars knights if the
old republic, and this time there was no disfigured text, but all but
the quit option on the menu would appear. when i tried to play the
game, it would play for a while, and then go into the same state, with
the monitor going black because of the graphic card. My mother board
is not more then 4 months old, and my graphic card is even newer. I
tried downloading the new driver, but it wont install due to an NSIS
error. Can anybody help please?
 
A

adham


Thank you for replying, but i downloaded the software straight from
the amd/ati website, twice, and it still gave me the same error. could
it be that the driver supplied by the manufactorer is corrupted. dont
really care, just want to get this problem fixed. Some suggested it
could be an ocerheating problem, but i felt the graphic card, and that
does not seem the case. Any other suggestions.

regards
 
J

JS

Also note that if there is a separate power connector for the video card it
must make good contact, I had a bad one once and this caused similar issues,
you might want to use a different power connector if one is available.

JS
 

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