Ok...first off my problem:
I just recieved the Ati Radeon x1600 pro card from a friend yesterday and installed it on my comp and got everything up and running. A few hours of gaming later the screen messed up (much like in the picture below) and rebooted itself. I got back on...no problems....gamed until i went to bed, not thinking much of it. This morning i went to get on and when all the loading screens, windows, etc came up it was just like the picture below...sometimes to the point where i couldnt see anything at all...and was unable to get onto windows. So on one of the time i could see enough to do some things, i uninstalled all the drivers etc and rebooted. It didnt exactly fix the problem...but it wasnt too awful bad. Later on i attempted to reinstall the drivers etc...and the picture below is what happened again. So finally i uninstalled all the drivers....rebooted...and when it came to all the start up screen...it was completely covered with mess....i tried many times, but without any luck. Finally i went and got my old graphics card, put it in, and it ran with no problem at all.
So my question: Whats wrong? lol
I didnt think it was my power supply, but im not completely sure.
To me it looks like the graphics card is mess up, but i dont know for sure.
My motherboard is a Asus p5nsli, with a pent d 950 cpu, 1gb ddr2 ram
I'm pretty sure i have a 400w power supply, although it might be 350...but im almost positive its 400...
anyway
thought i would see if i could get any help....i read some other posts on here about people having sort of the same problem i am...but not exactly like it....so yeah...just thought i'd see if anyone has any suggestions on what to do
(not that great with computers
)
thanks a lot
I just recieved the Ati Radeon x1600 pro card from a friend yesterday and installed it on my comp and got everything up and running. A few hours of gaming later the screen messed up (much like in the picture below) and rebooted itself. I got back on...no problems....gamed until i went to bed, not thinking much of it. This morning i went to get on and when all the loading screens, windows, etc came up it was just like the picture below...sometimes to the point where i couldnt see anything at all...and was unable to get onto windows. So on one of the time i could see enough to do some things, i uninstalled all the drivers etc and rebooted. It didnt exactly fix the problem...but it wasnt too awful bad. Later on i attempted to reinstall the drivers etc...and the picture below is what happened again. So finally i uninstalled all the drivers....rebooted...and when it came to all the start up screen...it was completely covered with mess....i tried many times, but without any luck. Finally i went and got my old graphics card, put it in, and it ran with no problem at all.
So my question: Whats wrong? lol
I didnt think it was my power supply, but im not completely sure.
To me it looks like the graphics card is mess up, but i dont know for sure.
My motherboard is a Asus p5nsli, with a pent d 950 cpu, 1gb ddr2 ram
I'm pretty sure i have a 400w power supply, although it might be 350...but im almost positive its 400...
anyway
thought i would see if i could get any help....i read some other posts on here about people having sort of the same problem i am...but not exactly like it....so yeah...just thought i'd see if anyone has any suggestions on what to do
(not that great with computers
)thanks a lot
