Is my graphics card crippling my system?

[TheRoni]

Hey! I have a question. I installed a GeForce 4 PCI graphics card in my Dell 2350 recently to replace the onboard video. Unfortunately, it seems to have caused some driver/device problems of some kind. My computer takes WAY longer to boot, I can't have my Compaq wireless USB card plugged in when I turn on the computer or there will be a "BUGCODE USB ERROR," and whenever I install or unstall software that requires a reboot, ANOTHER blue screen/error occurs. Even my captured video turns out choppy and loses around 170 frames in 30 seconds of video capture! It's so frustrating! 😕

Does anyone know what to do? Should I pull the graphics card out? That's all I can think of that could have done this. Thanks in advance! You guys sure know about computers! 😀

 

[TheRoni]

Some system specs are:

Dell 2350

XP Home
30gig HD
120gigHD
BFG Technologies Asylum GeForce4 MX 440 SE 64MB DDR PCI Graphics Card
512 DDR ram
DVD+RW

 

[T3C]

get a diffrent card is what i would do

 

[TheRoni]

Any particular card you recommend?

 

[TheRoni]

Also, I have noticed something else. Because my Dell had the onboard video, I had to disable it in the BIOS and then on device manager. However, there is a driver still in add/remove programs for it. Should I delete that and see what happens? It's restorable from the Dell driver disk, I'm assuming.

Edit: Just removed it. Maybe there will be an improvement of some kind!

 

[TheRoni]

Oh no. After removing the graphics card driver for the onboard graphics, I can't right-click on the desktop without a Windows Exploror error... good thing there's restore point!

 

[TheRoni]

I'm still having the problems even after reinstalling the Nvidia drivers. Could it be that my computer just simply can't handle having an Audigy 2 on the PCI with the geforce4? This is getting so frustrating...:disgust: