Graphics Card problem (again)

[awelsh]

Right, heres the deal :P

GFX Card: ATI Radeon 2400 PRO AGP

PC Specs: Pentium 4 Processor 2.66GHZ
768MB RAM
Up to AGP 4x Support
550w power supply

Now heres the problem.

When playing anything that uses the graphics card the computer will run it fine for roughly 10seconds, but will then simply lock up the screen then display a blank image. This will either fix itself and reset the graphics card or it willrequire me to restart the PC completely.

This will happen everytim.

The last time it was doing this I thought it was because my PSU was only 250w when the GFX card required 400w power supply as its minimum.

The GFX card is also 8x, however in the control panel it allows me to set it to: Off, 2x, 4x (I selected 4x as thats the highest setting the MOBO supports.

However the card still does the problems of not working properly when it goes to play any sort of games.

I know the machine can handle them because I put my old GeForce2 MX 400 card into the machine and it played the games but in low quality.

Does anyone know a solution to this? or a place to point me to?

Thanks

[Recursion]

Right, heres the deal :P

GFX Card: ATI Radeon 2400 PRO AGP

PC Specs: Pentium 4 Processor 2.66GHZ
768MB RAM
Up to AGP 4x Support
550w power supply

Now heres the problem.

When playing anything that uses the graphics card the computer will run it fine for roughly 10seconds, but will then simply lock up the screen then display a blank image. This will either fix itself and reset the graphics card or it willrequire me to restart the PC completely.

This will happen everytim.

The last time it was doing this I thought it was because my PSU was only 250w when the GFX card required 400w power supply as its minimum.

The GFX card is also 8x, however in the control panel it allows me to set it to: Off, 2x, 4x (I selected 4x as thats the highest setting the MOBO supports.

However the card still does the problems of not working properly when it goes to play any sort of games.

I know the machine can handle them because I put my old GeForce2 MX 400 card into the machine and it played the games but in low quality.

Does anyone know a solution to this? or a place to point me to?

Thanks

The bits in bold, regarding the 4x bit, that sounds like the AntiAliasing mode to me which has nothing to do with BUS speed, so that shouldn't really make a difference and I also assume you changed the PSU to a 400w one?

[awelsh]

The bits in bold, regarding the 4x bit, that sounds like the AntiAliasing mode to me which has nothing to do with BUS speed, so that shouldn't really make a difference and I also assume you changed the PSU to a 400w one?

Yeah, the 8x/4x bit doesnt make a difference :)

Yeah, the PSU is 550w :)

[Stephen!]

I told you some time ago that the card is faulty and it should be RMA'd. Have you done this yet?

[Recursion]

Ok, you had an Nvidia card first, Go get this: http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=745 and clear any Nvidia graphics drivers, then go and download the latest ATi ones for your card, once it has downloaded use that driver program to remove the ATi ones, then reboot and install the new ones you downloaded.

If this doesn't work then yeah, I agree with Stephen, it should be RMA'd.

[awelsh]

I told you some time ago that the card is faulty and it should be RMA'd. Have you done this yet?

What exactly does RMA mean?


Ok, you had an Nvidia card first, Go get this: http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=745 and clear any Nvidia graphics drivers, then go and download the latest ATi ones for your card, once it has downloaded use that driver program to remove the ATi ones, then reboot and install the new ones you downloaded.

If this doesn't work then yeah, I agree with Stephen, it should be RMA'd.

Yeah ive done that, put the Nvidia one back in now because the card was completely blanking the screen at all times.

[Recursion]

RMA means basically in your case, take it back to the shop. LOL

[awelsh]

RMA means basically in your case, take it back to the shop. LOL

Hmmm, thats a pain :(

Shop is about 60miles away, bought it while at my dads house. Bought about a month ago now too, would that make a difference?

[Agnostic Bear]

Hmmm, thats a pain :(

Shop is about 60miles away, bought it while at my dads house. Bought about a month ago now too, would that make a difference?

Not if the card was faulty to begin with.

[awelsh]

Not if the card was faulty to begin with.

Ok, good :)

Ill give them a ring tomorrow about it all then, not sure how im gunna get down there though for them to replace it or give refund.

[Markeh]

Yeah, I'd take it back to the shop

Slightly off-topic, how's the PSU going?

[awelsh]

Yeah, I'd take it back to the shop

Slightly off-topic, how's the PSU going?

Ill try to organise something with them :)

It's good, better than the old one, it has a switch at the back which allows me to turn it off, because previously I needed to unplug the USB's because for some reason the PC still powers them when its off :P loads easier now :) only drawback was I can't use the speakers I used to have because they used a special socket in the old PSU for power, but oh well.