Bad Video Card or MOBO?

[skgarach]

I just built a computer for my parents a couple of weeks ago and after burning it in for ~24 hours the ti4200 i bought for it started displaying orange stripes...so about 2 weeks later I get a replacement fx5200 (i know it sucks, but its for the 'rents) Again, after about 36 hours i'm seeing a lot of artifacting (this is all during bootup). I can't even boot up into WinXP, not even in Safe Mode (in safe mode it just stops at file agp440.drv).....Does anyone know if i've just had some bad luck and have gotten a couple of defective cards or is my mobo or something else causing these cards to bail out on me? TIA.

 

[Fern]

Here's a bump for you.

I've seen this type of situation posted several times, and can't remeber a good answer on how to nail this down. Hopefully, somebody will come along with one.

Good Luck

 

[modedepe]

Everything at stock speeds? What are the system specs?

 

[skgarach]

yes, everything at stock speeds...here's the specs

p4 Prescott 2.4ghz 533mhz bus

2 x 256mb Pc3200 Kingston Ram

MOBO ECS 848p-a

and as for the vid card, i started out w/ a
1) ti4200 64mb Chaintech

2) then i recieved a Megaspeed fx5200 128mb

3) right now i'm running a ati radeon 9000...waiting to see if this will work out (its been just over 24 hours running)




someone recommended me to do a new clean install and install the MOBO AGP drivers first and then install the video drivers. I've done this with a new Radeon 9000 and the system has been running stable for just over 24 hours now. as for now i've asked for another RMA