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General Category => Hardware => Topic started by: bLaCk0uT on December 19, 2007, 02:55:46 PM

Title: Video card problems
Post by: bLaCk0uT on December 19, 2007, 02:55:46 PM

Okay, so i've been playing a bit of WoW lately, and it would lag when i got into big cities. Most likely its because i'm running it on 256MB of RAM, but it could also be my 7 year old video card. I told my friend and he told me he had a nice 4 year old card that was top of the line back then and he didnt need it anymore. He gave it to me and it has the right slots, and everything fits fine. I put it in last night and it ran WoW decently, definately better than before, but there was still a bit of lag. I thought i should install the driver for it and it would run things more cleanly because that would let the computer take more advantage of the card, so i went online and found the driver STRAIGHT from the manufacturer's website, so I KNOW it's not corrupted. Right after that, i tried running WoW again and I start it up and my monitor goes into standby mode and it wont kick back on, so i have to turn off the computer/monitor power and restart it....Any suggestions?

Title: Video card problems
Post by: guestolo on December 22, 2007, 10:48:58 AM

Operating system?
Did you uninstall old video drivers before installing new ones?

What is the Exact model of Video card you installed?
What was the old one you removed?

Title: Video card problems
Post by: zayrael on February 18, 2008, 02:54:11 PM

Hey that happene'd to me i've an nvidia geforce fx 6600 256 mb of vram i was playi'n quietly then my pc Froze'd
tried to reboot but the pc got stuck with no signal after loadin' xp then i tried to enter troubleshooting mode and my pc was displayin' this way_ (http://www.mediamax.com/yadrt/Hosted/Nuevo%20Imagen%20de%20mapa%20de%20bits.gif)

Title: Video card problems
Post by: jigolo666 on February 19, 2008, 06:55:58 AM

[quote name=\'zayrael\' post=\'422009\' date=\'Feb 18 2008, 01:54 PM\']Hey that happene'd to me i've an nvidia geforce fx 6600 256 mb of vram i was playi'n quietly then my pc Froze'd
tried to reboot but the pc got stuck with no signal after loadin' xp then i tried to enter troubleshooting mode and my pc was displayin' this way_[/quote]

i think you video card video card driver has been corrupt or infected by virus.. try to install the video card driver, if nothing works... scan your PC with your updated antirus... /smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':)\' />

Title: Video card problems
Post by: excalise on March 17, 2008, 11:13:02 AM

well as questsolo says you have to uninstall previous one before installing another driver =/