Inigo_Montoya
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I had been having problems with my nvidia geforce 6800 256mb graphics card. My system would freeze up and give me no response. I would eventually have to push the reset button to get any response at all, just to have the problem happen again in 5 mins. After some investigation (updating drivers, checking nvidia forums) I decided to try a new card, so i got a geforce 6200. This one works 90% of the time. The problems arise when I am gaming. When running warcraft or similar games, the graphics will sometimes go haywire, and I will have to restart the game. If I simply play though it the system will eventually hang.
I have also tried a different brand graphics card (believe it was ATI) and had similar problems.
My next idea would be that the problem is with my motherboard, but I don't want to do a board swap unless I am positive. Suggestions?
list of things I've tried:
Updating all drivers (graphics, motherboard, etc.)
Updating directx and using their troubleshooting procedures
3 different graphics cards, all with similar results
What I'm running:
XP home SP2
3.2 Athlon Pentium 4
1024 ram
Motherboard is intel
I have also tried a different brand graphics card (believe it was ATI) and had similar problems.
My next idea would be that the problem is with my motherboard, but I don't want to do a board swap unless I am positive. Suggestions?
list of things I've tried:
Updating all drivers (graphics, motherboard, etc.)
Updating directx and using their troubleshooting procedures
3 different graphics cards, all with similar results
What I'm running:
XP home SP2
3.2 Athlon Pentium 4
1024 ram
Motherboard is intel