Recently I replaced my old NVIDIA 5500 Geforce graphics card with a friends old 5900 graphics card. Now at first everything was going great.
A few days later I tried playing Indigo Prophecy on my PC (Note: I already ran it beforehand after I installed the new card and everything worked fine). Soon into the game, strange green vertical dotted lines appeared on the screen. Eventually the game crashed. Afterwords, trying to open Indigo Prophecy yet again gave me the error message that my card was not directx 9.0c compatible. I checked NVIDIA's site, had double checked that I had the latest drivers, uninstalled the card, reinstalled, uninstalled directx 9.0c, reinstalled, etc. etc.
Now what really concerns me is that this doesn't just appear to be a graphics card issue. Now even my computer will refuse to start up at times. In fact sometimes the first boot up screen will have red vertical dotted lines (not green???).
So now it takes forever for me to even start up the computer to fiddle around!!! This is driving me crazy.
I have messed with dxdiag, but I can get no explanation for any of this.
Please if anyone can help me, it'd be very much appreciated.
Specs:
Windows XP Home Edition (Current Updates)
Pentium 4 2.40GHz
NVIDIA 128 MB GeForce 5900
512MB Ram
And someone mentioned I may have an outdated BIOS so I'm posting that as well...
Phoenix - Award WorstationBIOS v6.00PG
A few days later I tried playing Indigo Prophecy on my PC (Note: I already ran it beforehand after I installed the new card and everything worked fine). Soon into the game, strange green vertical dotted lines appeared on the screen. Eventually the game crashed. Afterwords, trying to open Indigo Prophecy yet again gave me the error message that my card was not directx 9.0c compatible. I checked NVIDIA's site, had double checked that I had the latest drivers, uninstalled the card, reinstalled, uninstalled directx 9.0c, reinstalled, etc. etc.
Now what really concerns me is that this doesn't just appear to be a graphics card issue. Now even my computer will refuse to start up at times. In fact sometimes the first boot up screen will have red vertical dotted lines (not green???).
So now it takes forever for me to even start up the computer to fiddle around!!! This is driving me crazy.
I have messed with dxdiag, but I can get no explanation for any of this.
Please if anyone can help me, it'd be very much appreciated.
Specs:
Windows XP Home Edition (Current Updates)
Pentium 4 2.40GHz
NVIDIA 128 MB GeForce 5900
512MB Ram
And someone mentioned I may have an outdated BIOS so I'm posting that as well...
Phoenix - Award WorstationBIOS v6.00PG