Hey i've recently started having issues with my video card. Problems started up a couple weeks ago whenever i would play games. I play World of Warcraft and Need for Speed Carbon. My computer would freeze for like 10 seconds and then restart itself, sometimes when i try to zone into an instance or restart a race. It seems to always happen when i trigger it by some kind of event. It's never restarted during a race or just running around.
Most the time when it restarts, my computer loads, shows the Windows XP loading screen, then as it goes to my desktop it blackouts for like 20 seconds, then a fuzzy screen with horizontal lines of my desktop pops up, and i know it's my desktop cuz i can see my AIM program in the background blurred out. When this happens i usually have to boot in safemode and do a system restore and disable pretty much everything and even THEN it doesn't always work.
Oh BTW my comp specs
Shuttle XPC SN95 w/ NVidia nForce2 board.
1024MB Corsair XMS ram
AMD64 3500+
ATI Radeon X800 PRO
Soundblaster Audigy 2 Value
Windows XP Home Edition.
So basically after my reformat i installed my latest chipset, soundcard, network drivers. When I try to install my the latest videocard drivers, setup runs fine through everything. I get the message that on the next restart my drivers will be tested for the first time. So i reboot and after the Windows XP loading screen i get a blackscreen with very few scattered dots and my computer freezes. I gotta restart and boot with last known config to get back to where i started.
Under other devices, in device manager, it lists.
#1 -Video Controller
#2 -Video Controller(VGA Compatible)
I've tried updating the driver manually and finding the driver set to where the .exe extracted it too.
For #1 manual install, installation goes fine and drivers install, it then list itself in device manager as Radeon X800 PRO Secondary, then ask me to restart.
For #2 The drivers start to install and at the end, it stops itself and says "Unable to install, Access Denied" and then i sadface.
Please help what can I do with this video card, is it broke?
I can also be contacted live on AIM, add me "GodHav"
Thanks!
Most the time when it restarts, my computer loads, shows the Windows XP loading screen, then as it goes to my desktop it blackouts for like 20 seconds, then a fuzzy screen with horizontal lines of my desktop pops up, and i know it's my desktop cuz i can see my AIM program in the background blurred out. When this happens i usually have to boot in safemode and do a system restore and disable pretty much everything and even THEN it doesn't always work.
Oh BTW my comp specs
Shuttle XPC SN95 w/ NVidia nForce2 board.
1024MB Corsair XMS ram
AMD64 3500+
ATI Radeon X800 PRO
Soundblaster Audigy 2 Value
Windows XP Home Edition.
So basically after my reformat i installed my latest chipset, soundcard, network drivers. When I try to install my the latest videocard drivers, setup runs fine through everything. I get the message that on the next restart my drivers will be tested for the first time. So i reboot and after the Windows XP loading screen i get a blackscreen with very few scattered dots and my computer freezes. I gotta restart and boot with last known config to get back to where i started.
Under other devices, in device manager, it lists.
#1 -Video Controller
#2 -Video Controller(VGA Compatible)
I've tried updating the driver manually and finding the driver set to where the .exe extracted it too.
For #1 manual install, installation goes fine and drivers install, it then list itself in device manager as Radeon X800 PRO Secondary, then ask me to restart.
For #2 The drivers start to install and at the end, it stops itself and says "Unable to install, Access Denied" and then i sadface.
Please help what can I do with this video card, is it broke?
I can also be contacted live on AIM, add me "GodHav"
Thanks!