Athlon XP 2000+
MSI KT4 Ultra (P/N: MS-6590 version 1.0)
Old vid card: MSI GeForce Ti 4200
New vid card: Powercolor Radeon 9600 Pro
512MB Crucial PC2100
Last semester I was playing Dark Age of Camelot (semi graphics intensive) and my screen flickered, a bunch of weird colors came up and then the screen went blank. I hit the reset switch and nothing came up on the screen. I heard a succession of beeps, looked in the m/b manual and came to the conclusion that the beeps meant a video problem. Well I didn't have the money to buy a new card at the time, and I had a laptop to use so I kinda put it off.
Fast forward to today. I just received my new radeon 9600 in the mail. I installed it very carefully, taking care to ground myself. I also blew out all the dust in the computer. Everything is going fine and i start to intstall drivers. Then the screen starts flickering.. and it gets worse and worse until it's hard to see where the mouse cursor is. So I freak out and turn off the power. I get up the courage to try again but this time I remove all my other peripheral cards first. Didn't help.
Other thing I tried was setting the BIOS settings back to default. That didn't help. I noticed while I was in there that my System temp was 95F and CPU was 107F but I don't recall if those are good numbers or not. Anyone have any ideas? I'm hoping it's not the motherboard, I'd hate to have to replace that too.
MSI KT4 Ultra (P/N: MS-6590 version 1.0)
Old vid card: MSI GeForce Ti 4200
New vid card: Powercolor Radeon 9600 Pro
512MB Crucial PC2100
Last semester I was playing Dark Age of Camelot (semi graphics intensive) and my screen flickered, a bunch of weird colors came up and then the screen went blank. I hit the reset switch and nothing came up on the screen. I heard a succession of beeps, looked in the m/b manual and came to the conclusion that the beeps meant a video problem. Well I didn't have the money to buy a new card at the time, and I had a laptop to use so I kinda put it off.
Fast forward to today. I just received my new radeon 9600 in the mail. I installed it very carefully, taking care to ground myself. I also blew out all the dust in the computer. Everything is going fine and i start to intstall drivers. Then the screen starts flickering.. and it gets worse and worse until it's hard to see where the mouse cursor is. So I freak out and turn off the power. I get up the courage to try again but this time I remove all my other peripheral cards first. Didn't help.
Other thing I tried was setting the BIOS settings back to default. That didn't help. I noticed while I was in there that my System temp was 95F and CPU was 107F but I don't recall if those are good numbers or not. Anyone have any ideas? I'm hoping it's not the motherboard, I'd hate to have to replace that too.
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