Hi guys,
I'm having some problems with an older machine that belongs to a mate of mine.
Specs are
Asus P4S800
Intel P4 2.6Ghz
Radeon 9250 256MB Ram
2GB Kingston Ram
300W PSU
Nothing special at all. Computer was working fine up until friend decided he wanted to play Sims 3, but it wouldn't play with the 9250 due to pixel shader version. So got a cheapo card for him, the GeForce 6800 512MB.
The computer would not longer boot reliably. I say reliably because perhaps 1 in 5 times it will boot successfully into windows. But most of the time what happens is that the screen just goes blank after POST, and nothing happens, fans all stay on, hard drives still spinning, but nothing on the screen it never actually reaches the Windows XP logo screen.
I placed the original 9250 radeon back in and the problems went away, I thought faulty graphics card but why would it boot sometimes and run fine for hours?
I thought maybe it wasn't getting enough juice from the 300W power supply so tried a 550W PSU of my own in his machine, same problem didn't seem to help at all.
Am I right in thinking the graphics cards borked? If it never boot at all I might have thought that but its just random.
Any ideas?
I'm having some problems with an older machine that belongs to a mate of mine.
Specs are
Asus P4S800
Intel P4 2.6Ghz
Radeon 9250 256MB Ram
2GB Kingston Ram
300W PSU
Nothing special at all. Computer was working fine up until friend decided he wanted to play Sims 3, but it wouldn't play with the 9250 due to pixel shader version. So got a cheapo card for him, the GeForce 6800 512MB.
The computer would not longer boot reliably. I say reliably because perhaps 1 in 5 times it will boot successfully into windows. But most of the time what happens is that the screen just goes blank after POST, and nothing happens, fans all stay on, hard drives still spinning, but nothing on the screen it never actually reaches the Windows XP logo screen.
I placed the original 9250 radeon back in and the problems went away, I thought faulty graphics card but why would it boot sometimes and run fine for hours?
I thought maybe it wasn't getting enough juice from the 300W power supply so tried a 550W PSU of my own in his machine, same problem didn't seem to help at all.
Am I right in thinking the graphics cards borked? If it never boot at all I might have thought that but its just random.
Any ideas?