I've been having many problems getting a stable video card in my computer in the last month or so.
I was running a Radeon 9000 Pro for no problems for about a year before upgrading to an AOpen GeForce 6800GT. When I switched to the GT, I completely reformatted my computer and loaded it up with Win XP Pro SP2 slipstreamed. I was having problems with graphical corruption. I tried many different driver versions and using driver cleaner from driverheaven.net each time I changed drivers, but the problem did not cease. I contacted AOpen and RMA'd my card (which I'm still waiting for ATM).
I put in my trusty Radeon 9000 Pro back in to hold me over until I got my video card back, and that worked fine for a couple of days, but then I was starting to get graphical corruption with that as well. The video card died completely 1 day later, and I even tried it in another system.
With that second death, I put in my friend's old Radeon 7000 and that still works fine with no problems except for lackluster performance. Wanting to build a server with some old components I had lying around and wanting something a bit better performance wise, I bought a 3D Prophet 9100 from compgeeks.com. I put it in place of my Radon 7000, reinstalled the drivers, and everything worked fine until I went into 3d mode, and then my system immidiately shut down with no blue screen, just had a power light on my case and no fans running. I switched off the power supply and restarted, and windows loaded completely, but while opening the start menu, the computer crashed again. I checked the video card fan and it was running fine, and didn't feel hot, but it now refused to even run for more than 2 minutes. I put the Radeon 7000 back in and everything worked fine again (3D games, video, Windows).
Here is my system configuration:
Power Supply: Thermaltake Silent PurePower 560W
Chassis: Thermaltake Tsunami VA3000BWA
Motherboard: Asus A7N8X Deluxe v2.0
Processor: AMD Athlon Mobile XP 2500+ @ 2.3 GHz / 400MHz Fsb @ 1.65V
Processor Cooling: Thermaltake SilentTower CL-P0025
Ram: 2x PMI 3200-512DPH - PC3200, CL2.5 256MB ea.
1x PMI 3200-512SPH - PC3200, CL2.5 512MB
(running in dual-channel for a total of 1GB of RAM)
Hard Drive: Western Digital WD2000JD 8MB SATA 200GB
DVD Burner: NEC ND2500A 8x Dual-Format Recorder
Video Card: AOpen GeForce 6800 GT (Currently RMA'd, other video cards listed above)
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer w/ Apache Apache ADL-201 Digital I/O Daughtercard
Speakers: Creative Inspire 5.1 5200 Speakers
Mouse/Keyboard: Logitech Cordless MX Duo
Monitor: Proview 19" 986N
Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP2
I've checked case temps - 25C system and 38C processor under load
power levels from power supply are quite alright as well (each voltage for 12V, 5V, 1.5, vcore all within 1% difference of rated voltages according to BIOS). Ran Memtest86 for 12 hours, no problems.
Is there something else going on? Mobo dying? Power supply? Just bad luck with video card failures?
Something else? Any assistance would be appreciated.
EDIT: I'm going to try the 3D Prophet 9100 in another computer later tonight and see if it works suitibly or not. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
I was running a Radeon 9000 Pro for no problems for about a year before upgrading to an AOpen GeForce 6800GT. When I switched to the GT, I completely reformatted my computer and loaded it up with Win XP Pro SP2 slipstreamed. I was having problems with graphical corruption. I tried many different driver versions and using driver cleaner from driverheaven.net each time I changed drivers, but the problem did not cease. I contacted AOpen and RMA'd my card (which I'm still waiting for ATM).
I put in my trusty Radeon 9000 Pro back in to hold me over until I got my video card back, and that worked fine for a couple of days, but then I was starting to get graphical corruption with that as well. The video card died completely 1 day later, and I even tried it in another system.
With that second death, I put in my friend's old Radeon 7000 and that still works fine with no problems except for lackluster performance. Wanting to build a server with some old components I had lying around and wanting something a bit better performance wise, I bought a 3D Prophet 9100 from compgeeks.com. I put it in place of my Radon 7000, reinstalled the drivers, and everything worked fine until I went into 3d mode, and then my system immidiately shut down with no blue screen, just had a power light on my case and no fans running. I switched off the power supply and restarted, and windows loaded completely, but while opening the start menu, the computer crashed again. I checked the video card fan and it was running fine, and didn't feel hot, but it now refused to even run for more than 2 minutes. I put the Radeon 7000 back in and everything worked fine again (3D games, video, Windows).
Here is my system configuration:
Power Supply: Thermaltake Silent PurePower 560W
Chassis: Thermaltake Tsunami VA3000BWA
Motherboard: Asus A7N8X Deluxe v2.0
Processor: AMD Athlon Mobile XP 2500+ @ 2.3 GHz / 400MHz Fsb @ 1.65V
Processor Cooling: Thermaltake SilentTower CL-P0025
Ram: 2x PMI 3200-512DPH - PC3200, CL2.5 256MB ea.
1x PMI 3200-512SPH - PC3200, CL2.5 512MB
(running in dual-channel for a total of 1GB of RAM)
Hard Drive: Western Digital WD2000JD 8MB SATA 200GB
DVD Burner: NEC ND2500A 8x Dual-Format Recorder
Video Card: AOpen GeForce 6800 GT (Currently RMA'd, other video cards listed above)
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer w/ Apache Apache ADL-201 Digital I/O Daughtercard
Speakers: Creative Inspire 5.1 5200 Speakers
Mouse/Keyboard: Logitech Cordless MX Duo
Monitor: Proview 19" 986N
Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP2
I've checked case temps - 25C system and 38C processor under load
power levels from power supply are quite alright as well (each voltage for 12V, 5V, 1.5, vcore all within 1% difference of rated voltages according to BIOS). Ran Memtest86 for 12 hours, no problems.
Is there something else going on? Mobo dying? Power supply? Just bad luck with video card failures?
Something else? Any assistance would be appreciated.
EDIT: I'm going to try the 3D Prophet 9100 in another computer later tonight and see if it works suitibly or not. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
