I posted a thread last week saying that I wanted to change my graphics card because it was giving me hell in vista.
here's a picture of "hell":
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/340d2ed093.jpg
I thought the problem was with my graphics card (7900gt). When I first installed windows vista it didn't work properly. I'd get a screen covered with squiggly lines. After some searching I learned that some have solved this problem by overclocking. So I overclocked my card (barely) and it worked. I'd just get a bunch of red dots on the screen when it tured black before loading a game or etc. the problem kept on getting worst. It has started looking like the above picture since last week.
I opened my case today and played around a little. I had 2gigs of kingston DDR2-800 (2x1GB). I also have two sticks of 512MB DDR2-667 kingston which was not installed (I tried using all four sticks when I had XP and windows wouldn't start). anyway I try different combinations with these four sticks (cista comes up with all four installed). It turns out that when I have only 1GB (either with one or two sticks), I will get a minimum amount of "hell"! I mean I only get those red dots I mentioned and sometimes some flickers of "hell", but games are playable.
I'm obviosly not an expert. and right now I have no idea what the problem is..
my ram? my mobo? gfx card?
how can I find out?
here's a picture of "hell":
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/340d2ed093.jpg
I thought the problem was with my graphics card (7900gt). When I first installed windows vista it didn't work properly. I'd get a screen covered with squiggly lines. After some searching I learned that some have solved this problem by overclocking. So I overclocked my card (barely) and it worked. I'd just get a bunch of red dots on the screen when it tured black before loading a game or etc. the problem kept on getting worst. It has started looking like the above picture since last week.
I opened my case today and played around a little. I had 2gigs of kingston DDR2-800 (2x1GB). I also have two sticks of 512MB DDR2-667 kingston which was not installed (I tried using all four sticks when I had XP and windows wouldn't start). anyway I try different combinations with these four sticks (cista comes up with all four installed). It turns out that when I have only 1GB (either with one or two sticks), I will get a minimum amount of "hell"! I mean I only get those red dots I mentioned and sometimes some flickers of "hell", but games are playable.
I'm obviosly not an expert. and right now I have no idea what the problem is..
my ram? my mobo? gfx card?
how can I find out?
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