help random crashes

[ben reed]

I have recently put a new 120gb hard disk in my computer, since i installed
the drive i have been experiensing simingly random crashes some of which are
blamed on the graphics card driver. I have now reinstalled the card
(drivers and phisicly) but this has not helped much as crashes still ocure
no errors are reported the rest of the time. i am stumped and dont want to
re-build my comp so any ideas would be much apretiated.

 

[calypso]

I have recently put a new 120gb hard disk in my computer, since i installed
the drive i have been experiensing simingly random crashes some of which are
blamed on the graphics card driver. I have now reinstalled the card
(drivers and phisicly) but this has not helped much as crashes still ocure
no errors are reported the rest of the time. i am stumped and dont want to
re-build my comp so any ideas would be much apretiated.

Can you please specify which card you own?

My friend has got similar problems, but it's after he installed new video
card (MSI GeForce4 Ti4200)... We exchanged everything (yep, really
everything), and it is still no good... So, I'd like to know your
symptoms, and which drive you own?

 

[ben reed]

i have a GeForce4 Ti 4200 as well (dont think it is a msi) the hard drive is
a 120gb 2mb cash west. dig. drive and seems to work fine very odd might be
my memory is coming loose? i will re build if it happens again!!!!!!!

 

[Ben]

350w should be okay as you say. Since youve put the new hdd as secondary
slave youve not messed with your system much only increased the power
consumption by 12 volts. As modern video cards are power hungry I thought
the AGP voltage may be fluctuating hence the error messages about the
graphics card. Try reinstalling the Via 4-in-1s. Do you have fast-writes
enabled ? That can be unstable (4xAGP should be fine - dont worry about
that) so disable that in the mobo bios. After that I would look at IRQ
sharing IF you have W2K or XP installed.
hth
Ben