About 3 weeks ago I got a new video card, an Nvidia Geforce 4 ti, made by Asylum (basically an unknown brand). At the same time as I installed it, I reformatted my computer. This all happened less than a week after Nvidia released new DetonatorXP drivers.

So I reformatted. And I reinstalled WinXP. And I installed these new Nvidia drivers. And since then my computer has periodically been just restarting itself due to a "bugcheck". Sometimes this happens when I'm in DirectX applications, while other times it's when I'm multitasking a lot. I kept thinking it was the latest drivers and that they were buggy or something. I really didn't have time to play around or tweak because I was very very busy with school and other stuff.

I just downgraded to the standard windows Nvidia drivers, and still the same thing. Which is making me think that it's the actual card. It seems like it's a bit too late to try for a refund or exchange. Do you think it could be anything else? (e.g. maybe just a bad Windows intall? Other software conflicts? etc)

When I go into the Event Manager it says "the computer has rebooted from a bugcheck" but nothing more detailed. Any ideas?

Try This Dani might help might not. Someone I know had the same problem well simliar.

What version of Direct X are you using?

Does this happen on all games or just that one game?

In the games does it happen with Direct3D instead of using OpenGL?

Have you updated Windows XP?? SP1 and other updates?

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=winxp-2k_41.09 you download new drivers for GeForce Card?

have you tryed Direct X 9?

Try all of those tell me what happenes

Doesn't just happen w/ DirectX. Happens all the time ... sometimes just when browsing the web! Happens more often when gaming though.

Yes, XP SP1. The latest version of DirectX. The latest GeForce drivers. I think I ran out of ideas ... it is the video card, isn't it? ugh

8xDirect x or 9 x?

Shoot Dani everything you said.

info@nvidia.com - contact them tell them what is going on now lets go to the troubleshooting part.

http://www.geforce.com/view.asp?IO=nvdvd_troubleshooting - there is there trouble shooting page cant find anything better contact them.

Nvidia won't help me either. I'm using some off brand manufacturer for the vcard. Nvidia is only driver-related. They'll just say to call the card manufacturer.

Aside from that, I'm still not perfectly sure that the video card is the problem at all. As I said, it started happening when I reformatted.

Does this problem happen on your other computers?

This does happen with other Operating Systems? Who is the maker VisionTek

http://jimmyfreewilly18.netfirms.com/BugCheck.jpg

The maker is Asylum (weird brand). Nope, just this PC since I reformatted and installed the card.

What type of computer is this? Does it have an onboard video adapter as well? If so, have you disabled the onboard adapter and/or selected NOT to allocate certain reserved memory to the onboard adapter?

If you remove the video card and test without it, do you still have the problem?

If not, then possibly it's the card or reserved memory address conflict which has to be disabled in bios.

RX

It's a computer I built based on an AMD Athlon XP 1900+. Nothing in the system has changed except for the video card and a reformat (don't recall installing anything new or different although I might've), and it worked perfectly before the new card. Nope, no onboard video.

Right now it's constantly restarting itself, down to the point where it's barely functional. But I just bought a new processor and motherboard which are being delivered next week. So I'm not toooooo worried until I put the video card in the new "system" and see if it works. Only a week to go!

Hopefully it's not the card!!