HELP!!! Problems after new vid card installation

[luciddreamerx]

I used to have a 6600gt agp 8x and now i upgraded to a x800gto agp

and I'm having trouble with my system it keep rebooting and when i try to load any games it reboots. or the game crashes. and the screen started flickering on boot.

Any suggestions?

my specs:

athlon xp3200
abit kv7
2gb gskill pc3200
160gb HDD
200gb HDD
lite on dvd rom
lite on dvd burner
saphhire x800gto
and a 350watt psu


any suggestions?


:?:

 

[killer_khan]

i think this must be a RAM problem.try removing da corrupt ram.

 

[Kodiak666]

I disagree, I doubt it is the ram.

It is most likely to be the Power Supply. I don't think you have enough power to run two hard drives and two DVD drives with that graphics card only using a 350 watt PSU.

I think if you replace the PSU with a more powerful one it will fix your problem.

 

[luciddreamerx]

Yeah the ram is brand new and I ran memtest and had no errors

Would a 400w psu do or do you think i need a 450w psu or higher?

 

[HYST3R]

i have a 6600GT and ive seen them pop 400w PSU's before.

i totaly think its your PSU, 6600's require atleast 350w i beleive.

and you upgraded from a 6600 to a bigger card and your running more HDD's then the usual 1 (just to give you an idea) have you added up your total power consumption to see if you have enough power? or how much you will need?

450w might be cutting it close but a 500w PSU will give you some overhead to work with 8)

 

[theboomboomcars]

Did you remove the Nvidia driver completely and totally before installing the ATI card? If not that is probably your problem. Nvidia drivers are not compatable with ATI cards and vice-versa.

 

[luciddreamerx]

Yep I removed the nvidia drivers and reinstalled the drivers off the saphhire cd and the catalyst ones from ati.com

 

[Kodiak666]

A 450w PSU MIGHT be enough, but I would recommend a 480w+ PSU.

I would also recommend buying a decent branded PSU. Cheap and nasty power supplies claim they have the juice, but they don't.

Go for Yesico/Tagan/Enermax/Asaka, or something like that.

I've blown up about half a dozen PSUs and learned the hard way not to skimp on them

 

[luciddreamerx]

I bought an ultra 500 watt psu last night put it in and i can get to windows but it still reboots and games are crashing or they'll make the sytem reboot.


is it the psu? or something else?

 

[theboomboomcars]

If it is only happening with games then it is probably a software conflict. If you haven't cleaned out the ati stuff, sometimes you need to do more than remove the driver.
Does your computer restart during watching/encoding movies, music, or anything else that would put a load on your system without using the 3D drivers? Or even just at random ie. not doing anything?
If it only does it during gaming it's either a software confilict in the driver, or a bad video card.

 

[delanooch]

For &^%* sake put your 6600 back in!!

just kidding man, head over to guru3d.com and see if they have any driver cleanup software for you , you could have some nasty Nvidia cling on dll's or something.

 

[swifty_morgan]

When you were over to ati's site and downloaded the new drivers, did you download and install net.framework 1.1, and install that too ?

The newer drivers require that you do.

 

[luciddreamerx]

I've done a complete format, winxp sp2, installed the net 1.1 from ati and the latest drivers from ati.

I was running fine for 3 days and i get these sysdata.xml errors when it reboots.

I'm thinking it's updates from windows update but i'm not sure.
this is getting annoying


anyone else run into this problem?

 

[luciddreamerx]

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318023

I found this on the microsoft site but it's not help because i've installed the latest drivers and i even uninstalled and used the ones from the saphhire cd.