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My computer is buggin' out on me
Cognisseur
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So I've got a pretty nice desktop, and it's been working pretty well for me. Until... I recently upgraded to a Nvidia 275, and had to buy a new 800 Watt power supply to juice it. And since then, I've been having some problems.
Naturally, I uninstalled the drivers before adding the new video card and installed latest drivers into this one. I've checked for Motherboard drivers and sound card drivers, and I'm not sure what else to look for. My computer isn't over-heating, I've checked that out too. And I should have enough RAM-- 2GB.
Symptoms:
-Say I want to play Titan Quest. If my computer has been on for a bit and I've been on the Internet or Word or anything, it'll freeze if I try to start Titan Quest. Screen blinks black every 10 seconds, otherwise background isn't changing, I can move my mouse around until I press a key or click my mouse at which point it's completely frozen.
-So instead, I need to restart my computer and start Titan Quest as soon as Windows starts. This has a 50% chance of success, and 50% chance of the above happening. However, that's a lot better than 0% with the above scenario.
-If I try to play a movie on my hard-drive, same thing occurs as with Titan Quest
-If I watch movies or play flash games online, I can watch to my hearts' content
-Half the time when I turn on my PC, my sound system, mouse and keyboard turn on but my monitor just stays in Powersaver mode and doesn't really turn on, and my desktop doesn't beep in protest that there's no display attached to it (which there is but no signal seems to go from desktop to monitor).
So what's going on? Why can I watch online videos but not downloaded videos? Why can I play my game sometimes at start up but never past that if it's not a temperature issue? What else should I download or what other drivers should I check for?
Naturally, I uninstalled the drivers before adding the new video card and installed latest drivers into this one. I've checked for Motherboard drivers and sound card drivers, and I'm not sure what else to look for. My computer isn't over-heating, I've checked that out too. And I should have enough RAM-- 2GB.
Symptoms:
-Say I want to play Titan Quest. If my computer has been on for a bit and I've been on the Internet or Word or anything, it'll freeze if I try to start Titan Quest. Screen blinks black every 10 seconds, otherwise background isn't changing, I can move my mouse around until I press a key or click my mouse at which point it's completely frozen.
-So instead, I need to restart my computer and start Titan Quest as soon as Windows starts. This has a 50% chance of success, and 50% chance of the above happening. However, that's a lot better than 0% with the above scenario.
-If I try to play a movie on my hard-drive, same thing occurs as with Titan Quest
-If I watch movies or play flash games online, I can watch to my hearts' content
-Half the time when I turn on my PC, my sound system, mouse and keyboard turn on but my monitor just stays in Powersaver mode and doesn't really turn on, and my desktop doesn't beep in protest that there's no display attached to it (which there is but no signal seems to go from desktop to monitor).
So what's going on? Why can I watch online videos but not downloaded videos? Why can I play my game sometimes at start up but never past that if it's not a temperature issue? What else should I download or what other drivers should I check for?
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I would probably find a driver cleaner (googling nvidia driver cleaner should produce tons), boot to safe mode, uninstall the hardware, run the driver cleaner, and then boot to normal and let it reinstall from scratch.
I'm running Windows XP Professional, and I ran DriverCleaner between switching video cards. If my monitor refuses to turn on half the time I turn my computer on, but the desktop doesn't see a problem with this (doesn't think there is no monitor), is this indicative of a problem deeper than Windows-stuff? Could it be faulty hardware, or something BIOS I should update?