GeForce FX 5500 problem causes monitor to sleep!

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Ok, here's how it started. I used to have a GeForce MX440, until it died a bitter death. I replaced it with a GeForce FX 5500 purchased at TigerDirect, thinking it was a better card. Here's what happens. With the MX440, I was able to play all kinds of games (Warcraft, CSI, Doom) with no problem. When I replaced the 440 with the 5500, I could still load Warcraft, but about 30 seconds into the game, the monitor would shut off. I would have to manually restart the computer to get it back up. So, I tried re-installing drivers for the video card and updating the motherboard drivers. I tried removing the card and putting it back in. Whenm that didn't work, I thought it may be windows related, so I uninstalled XP and formatted my drive and re-installed windows. That didn't work. The monitor kept turning black after about 10-30 seconds.

I read that the onboard sound might be conflicting with the video card, so I disabled that. I disabled the onboard video thinking that that might be the problem. Nada, zilch, nothing. It's gotten so bad now that I can't even load XP (unless it's in Safe Mode) without the monitor shutting off. I'm assuming this is a video card issue, but I can't figure out what the issue actually is. I've searched and searched and I'm two steps way from taking it to a computer place to get looked at, but I wanted to see if I could get help on here first.

Here is my set-up:

CPU Type AMD Athlon XP, 1833 MHz 2500+
Motherboard Name Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394 (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM, Audio, LAN, IEEE-1394)
Motherboard Chipset VIA VT8377 Apollo KT600
System Memory 1024 MB
BIOS Type Award Modular (09/24/03)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM2)
Communication Port Printer Port (LPT1)

Video Adapter nVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

IDE Controller VIA Bus Master IDE Controller
SCSI/RAID Controller VAX347S SCSI Controller
SCSI/RAID Controller VIA SATA RAID Controller
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive MAXTOR 6L040J2 (40 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
Disk Drive WDC WD2500JB-22GVA0 (127 GB, IDE)
Disk Drive IOMEGA ZIP 100 USB Device
Optical Drive SCSIVAX DVD/CD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device
Optical Drive SONY DVD-ROM DDU1621 (16x/40x DVD-ROM)
Optical Drive TOSHIBA CD/DVDW SD-R5372 (DVD+R9:5x, DVD+RW:16x/8x, DVD-RW:16x/6x, DVD-ROM:16x, CD:48x/24x/48x DVD+RW/DVD-RW)
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

C: (NTFS) 238464 MB (89567 MB free)
D: (NTFS) 38170 MB (38010 MB free)
Total Size 270.2 GB (124.6 GB free)

Peripherals:
FireWire Controller VIA VT6306 Fire II IEEE1394 Host Controller
USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller
USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller
USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller
USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller
USB2 Controller VIA USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller
USB Device USB Human Interface Device
USB Device USB Mass Storage Device

DMI:
DMI BIOS Vendor Award Software International, Inc.
DMI BIOS Version F4
DMI System Manufacturer
DMI System Product
DMI System Version
DMI System Serial Number
DMI Motherboard Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
DMI Motherboard Product GA-7VT600 1394
DMI Motherboard Version 15X
DMI Motherboard Serial Number
DMI Chassis Manufacturer
DMI Chassis Version
DMI Chassis Serial Number
DMI Chassis Asset Tag
DMI Chassis Type Desktop Case
DMI Total / Free Memory Sockets 3 / 1



Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
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