Just installed a Geforce FX 5900 and all games crash

[Sully]

I installed a Geforce FX 5900 and all my games crash. I like to play SOF2 on line and it locks up after a few minutes.
This happens with CS also.
Original card was a Geforce TI4600
I -updated my motherbooard bios
2-updated the sound card drivers
3-undated video drivers , even tried 44.65 beta

Do I have to reformat?

 

[TourGuide]

What video card did you have before you installed the FX?

If it was ATI, then I'd recommend running one of the driver cleaner programs before a complete reinstall, you can get them from guru3d.com.

 

[Sully]

My original card was a geforce TI4600

 

[stardust]

did u remember to uninstall ur ti4600 before u installed ur 5900? because your system will still think there is a virtual 4600 in ur computer if u didn't uninstall it. My suggestion is putting back ur ti4600, clean the drivers from the hardware manager, then clean with a tool u can get from www.guru3d.com and reinstall your 5900 from scratch.

 

[TourGuide]

Have you tried reinstalling your Ti to see if it is the card itself?

This should be a relatively easy thing to do. Go to the device manager and uninstall the card. Remove the FX and reinstall the Ti. The embedded drivers should reinstall for the Ti and if it works, then I'd say you got a bum card. Time to return it. If not, then move on to other things like RAM timings.

 

[wicktron]

Methinks the problem is between the monitor and the seat. That being said, follow everything that these people have said, you should be fine.

 

[Mem]

You can try Driver Cleaner 1.8 from here ,follow the readme file for instructions ,next what PSU do you`ve?

Also check your video card is not overheating.

 

[Sully]

I removed the old driver with drive clean and reinstalled driver no luck

 

[Viper96720]

SOunds like a bad card since you don't have to install a new driver since one driver works for all nvidia cards.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

It sounds more like the GPU is overheating than a driver problem.

Is the fan on the card working? Is the heatsink on the GPU attached properly? Is there a hardware monitoring program available from the vendor so you can keep an eye on the temps?