I just don'T believe it. Got a new card today and guess waht, the same fucking thing. Loads up the XP logo with the blue bar and then when it should go to the blue welcome screen it blacks out and hangs. When I use safe mode it's the Microsoft or the motherboard's VGA drivers that are providing the image, not the Asus graphics card. Maybe I should just deleat every single video and audio driver on my PC to see if that helps? This is really starting to piss me off now. Yakumo
I would do a complete fresh install of Windows (on another HD if you can) and see if that works, if not then it's possible that your motherboard is damaged in someway... Although try going to safe mode and disabling hardware acceleration and seeing if you can select a higher res over VGA, first.
For kicks, check for pooped caps on your mobo? And don't forget to do a ritual dance/song, sometimes an exorcism is needed.
Yakumo try the following which may help as it has for me before. Downloading Driver sweeper from here and install it: http://downloads.guru3d.com/downloadget.php?id=1655&file=4&evp=c14f9f3787877eef9ef4b235b9146e96 Then load up in safe mode and open the driver sweeper program select ATI/nvidia depending on what card you've got then click analyse and it should display a bunch of driver files then hit clean, re-boot then install the newer drivers for the new card you have. That program should get rid of any of driver files you select like your display from the locations on your hdd and in your registry.
Thanks for the help mate but I've already down that. I was reading that the card may be a running on a hight power than my old card. An artical said that at times the card just won't run or it may run for a while then break. THis could be the problem I'm having. If it is than I need to find something along the lines of a ATi Radeon 9700 pro or better since that what I had. yakumo
I don't know what size power supply you have or what power output the 9700 pro and the newer card has but it could be that using the new card may have taken your whole computers power output past what the size of your power supply is therefore you've had these problems.
You could be right,. What's stupid is that it doesn't even say how much power it needs. I'll have to look it up on the net. It also coudl be that this is a AGP8 card although it does say it will run on AGP4 (my PC's motherboard). The Radeon 9700 Pro is also a AHP8 card but that ran fine. Yakumo
at makes sense but this card did work at first. Hmm. Here's a link to the Japanese page: http://www.unitycorp.co.jp/asus/vga/ati/agp/ah3450htp256m/ In the Q/A section is stay that it will work with aAGP 4 slot which is what I have. Time to search from a motherboard BIOS update.
I know you probably did this but just a quick thought. I notice there is a molex connector on the card and just wondering if you connected a spare cable from your power supply to it.
ye, did that. I also updated all the mother board chip set and the bios to the latest versions but still no luck. I guess that first time I got it working was pure luck.
If the card did work at some point, and now doesnt... and IF it is a lack of power... Uhh where am I going with this. How clean is your power supply? Have you let the machine cool off plenty, and does a cold start help (PSU output goes down as the heat goes up). Other than that... this is really tricky!
A 3450 would require less power than the onboard GPU that his motherboard has. It's probably not going to be the PSU.
the PSU is 300w so plenty of power there. Powered from the PSU is the Motherboard, 2 DVD drives and 2 Hard Drives plus whatever is in the USB hub. Nothing that would really stress it out. This really is a crazy mystery. And it's getting worse. now I can't boot in safe mode. Windows just displays a flashing cursor in the top left corner. I know it's loading safe mode due to the hard drive activity but it won't display. I feel as if the devil has put a curse on my PC
Looks like a reformat is in order? I can't remember if you ever did that. Or alternatively, a repair install, I love those. :nod:
I ended up doing a complete reinstall of windows. Even a repair didn't fix the problem and every possible method known to man on deleting drivers also didn't work. Something big fucked up and I don't know what. Windows safe mode wouldn't even load. So a complete new install was needed. The bad thing was that I had to then reinstall all program files but at least I got the card working. Thanks for all the help you guys provided. Yakumo
Never install Windows "over the top". It won't fix the problem and it'll introduce a bunch of others. Good to hear it's working anyway.
