Saga Lout said:
Two bits of information please. One, what was the nature of the hardware failure before the new graphics card went in and two, what is the Wattage rating of your power supply unit? It should be printed on the outside without needing to open the case.
Thank you for the reply...
Nature of the hardware failure. First the mouse had a group of four lines in a rectangle shape behind the cursor. Then the screens had random rectangle discolored shapes that progressively got worse all over the screens. It does not seem like I can upload a screenshot from my desktop to this message to show you. IT guy said it was a hardware failure.
Research on the internet had a couple of possible fixes that did not seem to work very well. There appeared to be items in Adobe Flash called ActionScripts that can alter mouse settings. Uninstall of Adobe Flash did not fix issue. Another suggestion was to enable cursor trails. This seemed to remove most of the cursor corruption symptoms, but was not a fix. Seems to be a common issue with dual monitors and with gamers. I do not game but I have dual monitors (Gateway FPD2275W 22.3"). This issue has been reported for many years, but just recently affected me.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
It is a IWP300A2-0 and it looks like the maximum power is 300W?
ATI FireGL Z1
http://www.xpcgear.com/freglz1.html
System requirements
•Intel® Pentium® 4/Xeon™, AMD Athlon®/Opteron™ or compatible CPU
•AGP 8X/4X bus
•128MB of system memory (256MB or more recommended)
•Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
•300 watt or greater power supply (recommended)
The following is a list of specifications about my computer you may need...
Operating System new – server roles
Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1 (build 7601)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United States)
Installed: 12/11/2011 11:32:57 AM
System Model
Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor a
3.00 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
8 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Hyper-threaded (2 total)
Main Circuit Board b
Board:
http://www.abit.com.tw/ IC7/IC7-G(Intel i875P-ICH5) 1.0/1.1
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 03/30/2004
Drives new – drive encryption
250.05 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
130.54 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
SONY DVD RW DW-U14A ATA Device [Optical drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
WDC WD2500JB-55REA0 [Hard drive] (250.06 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WCANK9110908, rev 20.00K20, SMART Status: Healthy
Memory Modules c,d
2560 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'A0' has 512 MB
Slot 'A1' has 512 MB
Slot 'A2' has 512 MB
Slot 'A3' has 1024 MB
Bus Adapters
Intel(R) 82801EB USB Universal Host Controller - 24D2
Intel(R) 82801EB USB Universal Host Controller - 24D4
Intel(R) 82801EB USB Universal Host Controller - 24D7
Intel(R) 82801EB USB Universal Host Controller - 24DE
Intel(R) 82801EB USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 24DD