Hello everyone im really stuck and this is getting me down so please could you people with computer knolledge lend me a hand it will be much appriciated.
I recently built a new pc and the graphics card i bought was a gainward 6800 GS, i was using this in my old pc till the new parts came which included a new power supply, a pretty cheap one at 550Wats
In my old pc i was only running a 360 PSU and the card ran fine which im a bit stumped about. But this was a chieftech PSU
Everything seems to be working at the moment apart from the graphics card, i was having loads of problems installing windows getting disk errors so i had to format the hardrive on the other pc so got all that sorted now...
I only put the graphics card in today and it just isnt working atall, windows is fine but when i go to load up a game like battlefeild 2 half way through loading the map the sound goes slightly crackly and it freezes completly. in installed fear and the intro is so jerky and small cloured squares are everywhere and it freezes on the menu...
tryed some 2D games they also freeze
could this be down to a cheap PSU? here is the link to the one i bought...
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NOV-PSU550
the thing i was thinking about was that the requirments say on the box '2 free HDD connectors' which i dont have since this powersupply only came with 4 could this be anything to do with it?
Or is this likley to be my motherboard is faulty? my stats are as followed
P4 3.4ghz 2MB catch 775
Asus P5P800SE MotherBoard
3 sticks of 512 ram, 2 at pc2700 - 1 at pc4000
Gainward 6800 GS AGP
What i also noticed was on the bios my 3.3V under voltage whatever that is, is in red and running at about 2V
if anyone can help thank you so much i have no idea if its the mobo or not since the card was working fine before i changed it.
-Tom
I recently built a new pc and the graphics card i bought was a gainward 6800 GS, i was using this in my old pc till the new parts came which included a new power supply, a pretty cheap one at 550Wats
In my old pc i was only running a 360 PSU and the card ran fine which im a bit stumped about. But this was a chieftech PSU
Everything seems to be working at the moment apart from the graphics card, i was having loads of problems installing windows getting disk errors so i had to format the hardrive on the other pc so got all that sorted now...
I only put the graphics card in today and it just isnt working atall, windows is fine but when i go to load up a game like battlefeild 2 half way through loading the map the sound goes slightly crackly and it freezes completly. in installed fear and the intro is so jerky and small cloured squares are everywhere and it freezes on the menu...
tryed some 2D games they also freeze
could this be down to a cheap PSU? here is the link to the one i bought...
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NOV-PSU550
the thing i was thinking about was that the requirments say on the box '2 free HDD connectors' which i dont have since this powersupply only came with 4 could this be anything to do with it?
Or is this likley to be my motherboard is faulty? my stats are as followed
P4 3.4ghz 2MB catch 775
Asus P5P800SE MotherBoard
3 sticks of 512 ram, 2 at pc2700 - 1 at pc4000
Gainward 6800 GS AGP
What i also noticed was on the bios my 3.3V under voltage whatever that is, is in red and running at about 2V
if anyone can help thank you so much i have no idea if its the mobo or not since the card was working fine before i changed it.
-Tom
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