Hi everyone,
First here's my setup:
AMD Athlon T-bird 1.4GHz @1.533GHz
Shuttle AK31 rev 3.1 mobo
256MB Crucial DDR RAM
Inno3D Geforce3 Ti200 card w/ Det 23.11 drivers
Creative Soundblaster Live! 5.1 X-Gamer
Windows XP Pro
Now here's the problem: Everything was working fine one day. Then I used windows update and saw there was a new nVidia driver up. So I d/l'ed and installed the driver. Everything was working fine for a couple of hours. I went to class and then when I got back 8hrs later, the machine was dead. The monitor said "Please check signal" so I tried jiggling the cable, etc. Nothing. I turned the machine off and powered on again. Still nothing. There were also some beeps, 1 long and 3 short. I looked up that beep code and saw it relates to a video problem. So I removed the case and everything looked fine. Still, I reseated the vid card and powered it up again. Nothing.
I left the machine alone for a couple of hours and then tried it again. To my surprise, it started up and booted Windows. No unusual beeps this time. I rolled back the driver and removed all traces of both the old 23.11 drivers and the new 23.12 drivers from Windows update. I reinstalled the 23.11s and everything seemed to be stable. I went to bed and when I got up, the machine was dead again. If I power off the machine and leave it alone for a while, it will boot up and run for a while before it goes down. If I try to start up again just after it crashes, I get the beeps again. Anyone know what is going on? Could this be a heat problem? I don't think it's a busted card or CPU b/c they still work sometimes. If they were dead, they wouldn't right? Is this a driver problem? If so, how could this be since I removed all traces of the new drivers and am using the old stable drivers now? Any help would be appreciated, since this is really starting to get annoying.
Thanks for the help and sorry this is so long,
Dominique
First here's my setup:
AMD Athlon T-bird 1.4GHz @1.533GHz
Shuttle AK31 rev 3.1 mobo
256MB Crucial DDR RAM
Inno3D Geforce3 Ti200 card w/ Det 23.11 drivers
Creative Soundblaster Live! 5.1 X-Gamer
Windows XP Pro
Now here's the problem: Everything was working fine one day. Then I used windows update and saw there was a new nVidia driver up. So I d/l'ed and installed the driver. Everything was working fine for a couple of hours. I went to class and then when I got back 8hrs later, the machine was dead. The monitor said "Please check signal" so I tried jiggling the cable, etc. Nothing. I turned the machine off and powered on again. Still nothing. There were also some beeps, 1 long and 3 short. I looked up that beep code and saw it relates to a video problem. So I removed the case and everything looked fine. Still, I reseated the vid card and powered it up again. Nothing.
I left the machine alone for a couple of hours and then tried it again. To my surprise, it started up and booted Windows. No unusual beeps this time. I rolled back the driver and removed all traces of both the old 23.11 drivers and the new 23.12 drivers from Windows update. I reinstalled the 23.11s and everything seemed to be stable. I went to bed and when I got up, the machine was dead again. If I power off the machine and leave it alone for a while, it will boot up and run for a while before it goes down. If I try to start up again just after it crashes, I get the beeps again. Anyone know what is going on? Could this be a heat problem? I don't think it's a busted card or CPU b/c they still work sometimes. If they were dead, they wouldn't right? Is this a driver problem? If so, how could this be since I removed all traces of the new drivers and am using the old stable drivers now? Any help would be appreciated, since this is really starting to get annoying.
Thanks for the help and sorry this is so long,
Dominique
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