Hi, I recently (Tuesday) got a XFX GeForce FX 5200 256MB PCI card, and at first it was running OK, but yesterday and today when the computer has started up, the card has been messing about, not showing Windows, and asking to start it up in Safe mode instead. When I get into windows, it says that the card or drivers are faulty, but the card is in OK, and I have the latest drivers from the Nvidia website. However, I just downloaded them straight away instead of from the CD, and when I went to the XFX website, the drivers it said were newest were of a different version when I clicked on my card (v67.03, compared to on the Nvidia site where they were v71.84), so could it be I downloaded the wrong drivers? The Nvidia site seemed to just ask for Type of product (GFX card) >Make (Geforce, etc) > Operating System (WinXP), so not specific to the card. When I go to my Card settings in Windows, and click 'Update Drivers' it takes me to the Nvidia driver webpage however, so I'm sure they must be the correct Drivers (the ones from the Nvidia site, which I have installed).
The card is locking up for seemingly no reason as well when playing a game, and I have to restart. It restarts fine then though, no problems with it not loading windows or screen going blank. Sometimes it locks up then just crashes to desktop, and seems fine, but obviosuly now the game has shutdown. Just loads up fine and runs smoothly until it next locks up or crashes to desktop.
In short: Help!
My computer is:
Dell Dimension 2350
Pentium 4
512MB RAM
2.5Ghz
When it crashes to desktop, I get this error (see attached). I looked at memory, and I still have 7GB left out of 60GB however, so I doubt it can be low memory as the error seems to suggest.
The card is locking up for seemingly no reason as well when playing a game, and I have to restart. It restarts fine then though, no problems with it not loading windows or screen going blank. Sometimes it locks up then just crashes to desktop, and seems fine, but obviosuly now the game has shutdown. Just loads up fine and runs smoothly until it next locks up or crashes to desktop.
In short: Help!
My computer is:
Dell Dimension 2350
Pentium 4
512MB RAM
2.5Ghz
When it crashes to desktop, I get this error (see attached). I looked at memory, and I still have 7GB left out of 60GB however, so I doubt it can be low memory as the error seems to suggest.