9800pro on the glitch!

[concreteDonkey]

Hey all!

My brand new Connect3d 9800 pro is freakin out!
When I first put it in, in windows, it was doing this weird wipe down the screen like a slow refresh...
then it totally scrambled the picture...
so i reset and it did it once more...
reset again and it was ok, but when i try and play doom3, it does the vpu recover thing.
and sometimes it doesn't do the vpu recover, it just goes black, music carries on for a bit, then the whole system gives up.

The biggest shock was when my system just reset of it's own accord! It sounded like it was powering down at first, but then it came back on.

Now i have a feeling it's my power supply, even though it's P4 approved. I can't remember what power rating it is though. I've got a hard drive, floppy, DVD and CDRW in and i used to have a zip drive too with no problems, but i'm guessing a graphics card wants more juice than a zip drive?

Any ideas anyone?

 

[Smilin]

That graphics card wants about as much juice as your CPU. WAAAAY more than a zip drive.

I've only seen the desktop slow refresh thing with some older bunk drivers.

All the other symptoms point to either insufficient power supply or a bad card.

You're gonna need to find out what that PSU is. You might also rearrange your power layout so the graphics card is on it's own line.

 

[concreteDonkey]

It's only 300W

and that's running my athlon XP, and all ide stuff mentioned above.

what minimum power would you recommend?

any brand recommendations?