Hello All. I need some help desperately. I just purchased an Asus V-7100 GeForce2 MX video card at a local computer fair (I got the pure version, no tv out). I took it home and installed as per the manufacturer's instructions. It did nothing but crash my system. Long story short, after crashing the machine enough, I wiped the hard drive, and did a fresh install of win 98 SE (I was planning on doing that anyway, as I was running an older win 95 build) with the new video card installed.
The thing runs now, but I am having problems with visual artifacts, the kind you would expect from an overclocked sytem or video card (neither of which I have done). The artifacts ONLY show up on my windows desktop. The machine runs quakeIII excellently. I have replaced the motherboard drivers (updated the via 4 in 1 driver), the video card driver, etc., tweaked the bios settings, the driver settings, etc. Nothing fixes the problem.
Just as background, I am running a new Asus PSV4X mobo, with a 550 coppermine. My previous video card was a voodoo3 2000 PCI, which ran fine. I also was not having any other heat related problems prior to this.
I think the answer is that I purchased a defective card. Anyone disagree? Is there anything I have missed here?
The thing runs now, but I am having problems with visual artifacts, the kind you would expect from an overclocked sytem or video card (neither of which I have done). The artifacts ONLY show up on my windows desktop. The machine runs quakeIII excellently. I have replaced the motherboard drivers (updated the via 4 in 1 driver), the video card driver, etc., tweaked the bios settings, the driver settings, etc. Nothing fixes the problem.
Just as background, I am running a new Asus PSV4X mobo, with a 550 coppermine. My previous video card was a voodoo3 2000 PCI, which ran fine. I also was not having any other heat related problems prior to this.
I think the answer is that I purchased a defective card. Anyone disagree? Is there anything I have missed here?
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