djdanska
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| Bad video card? Computer freezes up.
Hello. I currently have an athlon x2 3800+ dual core processer with an msi k8n neo 4 (possibly ultra) board. 4 gigs of pc 3200 memory and an ati x1300 video card with 256mb of memory. My machine is for the most part stable. (I just can't use high performance in the power management or my machine will overheat. Thats another issue entirely). This is my issue:
I was able to get a chaintech GeForce 8500 GT pci x16 video card. I put it in the computer. boots into windows and right before it's finished, the computer freezes up. Won't respond to anything. It was even before it installed the graphics drivers! I went into safe mode and installed the video drivers. No big deal. Booted back into regular mode and the video is back to normal. (things are not huge. Good resolution). It boots back into windows and goes a little farther. I was able to verify it actually is using the nvidia drivers. and suddenly, it freezes up again! I uninstalled ultravnc, my antivirus, and just about any other program that might cause an issue with it! Still, no luck.
I gave up. I installed windows vista on a separate hard drive. Fresh copy. Installed fine. Booted into windows the first time. You know when it does the vista rating scale? It froze up! I reboot again, it bypasses the vista ratings thing this time and boots into windows. No freezes. I use the machine for about 1 hour. Updating drivers, etc.. And during a file transfer between hard drives, it froze up again!
Is this a bad video card? I checked the event viewer but couldn't find anything unusual. (but i don't know if i know what to look for). I would really like to keep the video card but if i have to return it, that's fine. I can do that. It's from newegg.
Is there a program out there that can monitor the boot and tell me what part of the boot it freezes up at? Maybe a driver conflict? Any help would be appreciated!
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···14145156
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Sounds like faulty/failing hardware. Especially since the problem exists when using two different OS's.
You can start by checking event viewer and seeing if Windows is logging any issues. otheriwise, it's now time to start swapping hardware. I would start by removing everything that isn't essential to operation (extra HDD's, memory, addon cards, etc.). Then boot and see how it works. If the problem goes away, then add the other components back in one at time until the issue returns. If the problem continues, then you will need to start swapping the parts still in use...starting with the video card.
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