No 3D?

[Jay Cousins]

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

 

[Conor]

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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Conor

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[Jay Cousins]

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