Problem with Graphics card, HELP!

[Zeliah]

I have a Pentium 4, about a week ago the graphics card fan started to make buzzing and staggered sounds, so I took it to Best Buy, and one of the Geek Squad tech told me it was on its last legs, so I bought another one. An ATI Radeon X1300 pro and now my PC keeps getting stuck, it just freezes and I have to press the reset button on my computer to restart it.

HELP!

 

[roadrunnermicke]

Ok, I had also a problem once when my computer freezes when i was playing games.. the problem was that the fan didn't worked to the card.. so it freezed so it couldn't be overheated! And the graphic card I had was also new! start with check the fan

 

[Rik]

Did you remove the driver and any software for your old card before installing the new one?

 

[roadrunnermicke]

The graphic card came with a new computer.. so it was damage from the beginning! The computer was new, so the graphic card!
It was just a tips so u don't waste time on troubleshooting if it was the same simple problem that I had. does your fan circulate?

 

[Zeliah]

Rik

No the old software for the old graphics card was not uninstalled. I checked on Add/remove programs and I can't find the software. I found it on the C drive but there is no way to uninstall it (no uninstall.exe) Incidentally the graphics card is a NVidia G force 4, there is a folder on the C drive named Nvidia but no uninstall app.

roadrunnermike,

The computer had an old graphics card and it was making a weird noise so I bought a new one and installed it, both were on the AGP slot so it was just a change over, the new graphics card is quiet and the computer freezes randomly, and so I never know when its going to freeze.

I also just updated my Windows media player to 11 and when I open the song plays for about 4 seconds then the computer freezes.

I checked the fan and its working fine. I think its a software problem. I'm going to try uninstalling windows media player.

Any more suggestion

 

[agi_shi]

Rik

No the old software for the old graphics card was not uninstalled. I checked on Add/remove programs and I can't find the software. I found it on the C drive but there is no way to uninstall it (no uninstall.exe) Incidentally the graphics card is a NVidia G force 4, there is a folder on the C drive named Nvidia but no uninstall app.

My Computer - Properties - Hardware - Device Manager - "Display Adapters" - <Your Card> - Driver - Uninstall. Then download your card's drivers and install them.

I think your pc is using your new card as your old one (old drivers), and you're locking up.