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heritagius · July 28th, 2005, 01:03 PM

Hi guys,

I was on a while ago going on about problems with a Sapphire Radeon x700 AGP card that froze my computer on boot-up and scrambled my display, and some kindly souls (Solocama, EXreaction, Njolakoski, duckhunter-deux, rjj7711) gave me some pointers to possible problems, i.e. power supply and disabling PCI simple comms. contollers.

Changing the power supply didnt work, nor did adjusting the comms controllers. I frustration I went and swapped the X700 for a PNY NVidia GeForce 5500FX 256MB card, and slammed that one in. It booted up fine, I installed drivers, rebooted, adjusted my display resolution, device manager says that it's working properly, then when I try and run a game, the screen either goes black with the game noises in the background or totally uniformly green (a rather nice mid-lime shade), with similar nosies in background to tell me the game is running nonetheless.

I'M GOING I.N.S.A.N.E. Can anyone shed some light on what this means? I thought I'd cracked it by switching from ATI to NVidia, at least I didn't get all the scrambling and power-offs like I did with the ATI card, only to have it fail at the last moment. I'm doing everything, completely re-installing Windows XP SP2, and only installing my internet connection before installing the card, but no joy.

The last thread for those deparate to read about the lame adventure with the previous x700 card is at RADEON x700 problems! Help!.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.....

Mark

I'll repeat my specs here:

MANUFACTURER/MODEL: Microstar (MSI) Model PCMT5
TYPE: ME MT 103
(system scan tool at www.crucial.com reveals mobo to be MS6507, specs at http://www.msicomputer.com/product/...6507-L&class=mb)
PRIMARY SLAVE: DVD Rom 16x IDE
SECONDARY SLAVE: CD Rom R/W ATAPI
VIDEO: VGA/EGA
DRIVE A: 3.5 Inch, 1.44 MB
DRIVE B: <none>
BIOS: 1.55 (04/24/2002)
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.2 GHz
FSB/MULTIPLICATOR: 100 Hz * 22.0
CACHE: 512K
SDRAM SLOT 0: 512 DDR PC2100
SDRAM SLOT 1: 256 DDR PC2100
FRONTSIDE BUS: 100 MHz
PSU: 250W max

Running Windows XP SP2

Other: BT Voyager 205 ADSL Modem, USB linked to comp, MITAC LC552 flatscreen, basic (supplied with comp) speakers, own power supply.

July 28th, 2005, 01:03 PM	#1 (permalink)
heritagius Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 6	NVidia GeForce 5500 FX Hi guys, I was on a while ago going on about problems with a Sapphire Radeon x700 AGP card that froze my computer on boot-up and scrambled my display, and some kindly souls (Solocama, EXreaction, Njolakoski, duckhunter-deux, rjj7711) gave me some pointers to possible problems, i.e. power supply and disabling PCI simple comms. contollers. Changing the power supply didnt work, nor did adjusting the comms controllers. I frustration I went and swapped the X700 for a PNY NVidia GeForce 5500FX 256MB card, and slammed that one in. It booted up fine, I installed drivers, rebooted, adjusted my display resolution, device manager says that it's working properly, then when I try and run a game, the screen either goes black with the game noises in the background or totally uniformly green (a rather nice mid-lime shade), with similar nosies in background to tell me the game is running nonetheless. I'M GOING I.N.S.A.N.E. Can anyone shed some light on what this means? I thought I'd cracked it by switching from ATI to NVidia, at least I didn't get all the scrambling and power-offs like I did with the ATI card, only to have it fail at the last moment. I'm doing everything, completely re-installing Windows XP SP2, and only installing my internet connection before installing the card, but no joy. The last thread for those deparate to read about the lame adventure with the previous x700 card is at RADEON x700 problems! Help!. Any help would be greatly appreciated..... Mark I'll repeat my specs here: MANUFACTURER/MODEL: Microstar (MSI) Model PCMT5 TYPE: ME MT 103 (system scan tool at www.crucial.com reveals mobo to be MS6507, specs at http://www.msicomputer.com/product/...6507-L&class=mb) PRIMARY SLAVE: DVD Rom 16x IDE SECONDARY SLAVE: CD Rom R/W ATAPI VIDEO: VGA/EGA DRIVE A: 3.5 Inch, 1.44 MB DRIVE B: <none> BIOS: 1.55 (04/24/2002) CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.2 GHz FSB/MULTIPLICATOR: 100 Hz * 22.0 CACHE: 512K SDRAM SLOT 0: 512 DDR PC2100 SDRAM SLOT 1: 256 DDR PC2100 FRONTSIDE BUS: 100 MHz PSU: 250W max Running Windows XP SP2 Other: BT Voyager 205 ADSL Modem, USB linked to comp, MITAC LC552 flatscreen, basic (supplied with comp) speakers, own power supply.