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KrazyKracka · 10-27-2004, 03:36 PM

Greetings everybody,

Here's my Problem: A bout 3-4 months ago, I helped my friend build a new PC. Two weeks ago, he calls me up and tells me he needs cash badly and asks if I would like to buy the PC. Since I know all the details about it, I said "absolutely". Here's where it gets tricky: After I took delivery, I added 200 gigs of HD space (80 gig master and 120 gig slave disk), added 1 gig of RAM to the machine (PC 2700 SD DDR), My own CD RW drive and a new DVD RW Drive, along with Win XP PRO SP2, and a PCI wireless G card. about 5 Days ago, my system crashed, just as if someone pulled the power plug, and restarted. I restarted, sent an error report, which it told me that the crash was caused by a graphics device driver. It got progressively worse over the next few days, to a point where the system would not even boot.

I formatted the Primary hard disk and reinstalled the OS. The system worked good for 36 hours, where it crashed again and gave me the same error message. To make a long story short, I did this SEVERAL times over the past few days. I ended up diagnosing the graphics card as being bad. The card is a NVIDIA GeForce 5200, with 256MB RAM. I have an older 32 MB PNY technologies card, which I used in its place, and it seemed to work OK. Until TODAY, when it crashed again! This time there was no error report option. I turned down the hardware acceleration to none, and the system seems much more stable. It has crashed once with this card and settings. Has anyone here had any type of problem like this? My 'board is an Elitegroup model K7VTA3, and it runs an AMD Athlon XP 2400 + processor, currently running at 2.10 GHz. If anyone can offer any insight, I would be especially grateful*.

Thanks in Advance!

*gratitude to be returned in backrubs

10-27-2004, 03:36 PM	#1 (permalink)
KrazyKracka Crazy Location: PA	Going Nucking Futs! Need help! (Kind of long) Greetings everybody, Here's my Problem: A bout 3-4 months ago, I helped my friend build a new PC. Two weeks ago, he calls me up and tells me he needs cash badly and asks if I would like to buy the PC. Since I know all the details about it, I said "absolutely". Here's where it gets tricky: After I took delivery, I added 200 gigs of HD space (80 gig master and 120 gig slave disk), added 1 gig of RAM to the machine (PC 2700 SD DDR), My own CD RW drive and a new DVD RW Drive, along with Win XP PRO SP2, and a PCI wireless G card. about 5 Days ago, my system crashed, just as if someone pulled the power plug, and restarted. I restarted, sent an error report, which it told me that the crash was caused by a graphics device driver. It got progressively worse over the next few days, to a point where the system would not even boot. I formatted the Primary hard disk and reinstalled the OS. The system worked good for 36 hours, where it crashed again and gave me the same error message. To make a long story short, I did this SEVERAL times over the past few days. I ended up diagnosing the graphics card as being bad. The card is a NVIDIA GeForce 5200, with 256MB RAM. I have an older 32 MB PNY technologies card, which I used in its place, and it seemed to work OK. Until TODAY, when it crashed again! This time there was no error report option. I turned down the hardware acceleration to none, and the system seems much more stable. It has crashed once with this card and settings. Has anyone here had any type of problem like this? My 'board is an Elitegroup model K7VTA3, and it runs an AMD Athlon XP 2400 + processor, currently running at 2.10 GHz. If anyone can offer any insight, I would be especially grateful. Thanks in Advance! gratitude to be returned in backrubs Last edited by KrazyKracka; 10-27-2004 at 03:38 PM.. Reason: too much content