I recently purchased a graphics card, so I could play more modern games instead of older ones with the onboard 64MB one. Its a Radeon 9550, and its giving me a hell of a hard time. I'm getting this problem that randomly occurs after a hour or two after power-on. The mouse disappears, the screen freezes, only to have a small 2x2 CM square full of random pixels on the top left of my screen. Seconds later, the system goes into an unrecoverable standby. Till, I restart the computer of course. I'm not too sure if this is the result of overheating, as I've got over 3 fans installed in the system. One putting the air in on one end, the other pushing it out. Another reason why I think this is because since day 1, when I attempted to install the ATI Catalyst Control Center, the computer wouldn't boot, until I did a system restore in safe mode. Making the drivers of the card uninstalled. I've also tried the most recent drivers. They also don't work. So I'm stuck with the ATI Display Driver itself. Nothing extra. I'm posting on this forum, as I'm needing help as its also affecting some of my games (Also making it going to standby, for example. Command and conquer generals whenever I try LAN Mode or Skirmish. The monitor goes into unrecoverable standby). Which gets very annoying. I am requesting a little help here.
System Specs:
AMD 64 3000+
512MB DDR 400 RAM
GIGABYTE GA-K8VM800M
230V/500Watt PSU
40 GB IDE HDD
DVD-RW DRIVE
CPU COOLER (Keeps it around 30 Degrees Celius)
3 SYSTEM FANS (Unknown System Temperature, although the room itself it pretty cool)
If theres anything missed out, let me know. I'm only 14, With a little knowledge of computing
System Specs:
AMD 64 3000+
512MB DDR 400 RAM
GIGABYTE GA-K8VM800M
230V/500Watt PSU
40 GB IDE HDD
DVD-RW DRIVE
CPU COOLER (Keeps it around 30 Degrees Celius)
3 SYSTEM FANS (Unknown System Temperature, although the room itself it pretty cool)
If theres anything missed out, let me know. I'm only 14, With a little knowledge of computing