FX 5200 Problem. Please help me !!!!!

On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 21:46:30 +0000, Paul wrote:

On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 20:59:02 GMT, "Daniel"
wrote:

No, I'm not able but I've noticed something I changed drivers
yesterday (55.0345.23),since yesterday no problem at all !?
I will keep observation. Cheers!!!!!
Are you able to try the card and drivers in another system ?

It can be a pain, but a good way of knowing if it is the card/driver

Daniel


"Paul" wrote in message
. ..
First I 'll describe me computer:
Windows XP pro
300w PS
XFX GF 5200 128 MB DDR TV-out (I'm ashemed, I don't know why i bought
this ****)
768MB of RAM Crucial PC 2100 DDR
Monitor 17'' Belinea 10 30 22
Creative soundblaster 4.1 Digital
Maxtor 60 and 250 GB
Liteon CD-RW 52x32x52x
Motherboard Asus A7N266-VM


My problem is:
My system continually crash after installing my new XFX graphics card.
I found answer there
http://www.xfxforce.com/faq_view.php?id=42

I've got latest drivers for me motherboard and graphic card installed
3.13 for m. and 53.03 for gc. Latest Bios.

But I've noticed something while I'm surfing on internet or doing
something on me computer and playing music from me computer at the sme
time after few minutes computer just hang and screen goes black but
while I'm just surfing and doing things on computer it's OK?! If you
know How and What please HELP!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!



after 1 week observation I've noticed this:
I have not turned me computer off since last sturday (03 Jan) and was
fine until I did it today morning. Me problem has returned like
boomerang and hit me teribbly on back of me head ha ha ha!!!!!!!!
If you are ( Martin) reading this can you recommend any good PS? In
future I'm gonna buy another 250GB hard drive and DVD-RW.Best regards
PAUL!!!!!!!!

Hi Paul/All

Exactly the same problem as you:
Win XP sp1 and updates
With or without DirectX 9
AMDXP 2600+
2x512 MB Twinmos DDR400 (200MHZ) RAM
60 GB HD
CD ROM
Asus A7N8X Deluxe rev2.0
Gainward GeForce FX5200 with 128MB ddr
JSP TECH 400 Watts from www.jsp-tech.com
- no other drives or cards attached.
- nothing is overclocked
- MB temp on average 28C, CPU 46C

XP rebooted for the first time during setup (installed XP 20 times
before on different system).
After that it reboots and BSOD randomly (and during Windows
update/installation)
Tried all the latest drivers for Graphics card, Nvidia MB chipset, XP
sp1 is installed and updated...

It looks like another driver problem, maybe even more serious than
that, however same Graphics Card (we bought 2 at the same time),works
fine on my brother's similarly specd machine (but with KT400 chipset)
and MSI motherboard.

I firmly believe it isn't the power supply.

ANy other ideas before change to my old Graphics Card and return this
piece of cr.P.
Thanks

Goran



"DaveL" wrote in message ...
Try taking the Sound Blaster out. Your motherboard has onboard Nvidia APU.

Dave


"Paul" wrote in message
...
First I 'll describe me computer:
Windows XP pro
300w PS
XFX GF 5200 128 MB DDR TV-out (I'm ashemed, I don't know why i bought
this ****)
768MB of RAM Crucial PC 2100 DDR
Monitor 17'' Belinea 10 30 22
Creative soundblaster 4.1 Digital
Maxtor 60 and 250 GB
Liteon CD-RW 52x32x52x
Motherboard Asus A7N266-VM


My problem is:
My system continually crash after installing my new XFX graphics card.
I found answer there
http://www.xfxforce.com/faq_view.php?id=42

I've got latest drivers for me motherboard and graphic card installed
3.13 for m. and 53.03 for gc. Latest Bios.

But I've noticed something while I'm surfing on internet or doing
something on me computer and playing music from me computer at the sme
time after few minutes computer just hang and screen goes black but
while I'm just surfing and doing things on computer it's OK?! If you
know How and What please HELP!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!

On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 19:42:32 +0000, Paul wrote:

On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 21:46:30 +0000, Paul wrote:

On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 20:59:02 GMT, "Daniel"
wrote:

No, I'm not able but I've noticed something I changed drivers
yesterday (55.0345.23),since yesterday no problem at all !?
I will keep observation. Cheers!!!!!
Are you able to try the card and drivers in another system ?

It can be a pain, but a good way of knowing if it is the card/driver

Daniel


"Paul" wrote in message
...
First I 'll describe me computer:
Windows XP pro
300w PS
XFX GF 5200 128 MB DDR TV-out (I'm ashemed, I don't know why i bought
this ****)
768MB of RAM Crucial PC 2100 DDR
Monitor 17'' Belinea 10 30 22
Creative soundblaster 4.1 Digital
Maxtor 60 and 250 GB
Liteon CD-RW 52x32x52x
Motherboard Asus A7N266-VM


My problem is:
My system continually crash after installing my new XFX graphics card.
I found answer there
http://www.xfxforce.com/faq_view.php?id=42

I've got latest drivers for me motherboard and graphic card installed
3.13 for m. and 53.03 for gc. Latest Bios.

But I've noticed something while I'm surfing on internet or doing
something on me computer and playing music from me computer at the sme
time after few minutes computer just hang and screen goes black but
while I'm just surfing and doing things on computer it's OK?! If you
know How and What please HELP!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!



after 1 week observation I've noticed this:
I have not turned me computer off since last sturday (03 Jan) and was
fine until I did it today morning. Me problem has returned like
boomerang and hit me teribbly on back of me head ha ha ha!!!!!!!!
If you are ( Martin) reading this can you recommend any good PS? In
future I'm gonna buy another 250GB hard drive and DVD-RW.Best regards
PAUL!!!!!!!!

Now something funny since yesterday no problem at all
!!!!!!!!!?????????
and I've noticed this:
I've cleaned me AGP port and so far no problems??!!
maybe it was it( DUST!!! I hate you!!!!!!)

On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 10:47:56 +0000, Paul wrote:

First I 'll describe me computer:
Windows XP pro
300w PS
XFX GF 5200 128 MB DDR TV-out (I'm ashemed, I don't know why i bought
this ****)
768MB of RAM Crucial PC 2100 DDR
Monitor 17'' Belinea 10 30 22
Creative soundblaster 4.1 Digital
Maxtor 60 and 250 GB
Liteon CD-RW 52x32x52x
Motherboard Asus A7N266-VM


My problem is:
My system continually crash after installing my new XFX graphics card.
I found answer there
http://www.xfxforce.com/faq_view.php?id=42

I've got latest drivers for me motherboard and graphic card installed
3.13 for m. and 53.03 for gc. Latest Bios.

But I've noticed something while I'm surfing on internet or doing
something on me computer and playing music from me computer at the sme
time after few minutes computer just hang and screen goes black but
while I'm just surfing and doing things on computer it's OK?! If you
know How and What please HELP!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!

OK, I got new PS ( Q-Tec PSU 550W Dual Fan Gold), I'm happy that I
bought that but It have not resolved The problem still Crashes
sometimes. It must be something with drivers. Thanks Martin guite good
PS and cheap.

Paul wrote:
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 10:47:56 +0000, Paul wrote:

First I 'll describe me computer:
Windows XP pro
300w PS
XFX GF 5200 128 MB DDR TV-out (I'm ashemed, I don't know why i
bought
this ****)
768MB of RAM Crucial PC 2100 DDR
Monitor 17'' Belinea 10 30 22
Creative soundblaster 4.1 Digital
Maxtor 60 and 250 GB
Liteon CD-RW 52x32x52x
Motherboard Asus A7N266-VM


My problem is:
My system continually crash after installing my new XFX graphics
card. I found answer there
http://www.xfxforce.com/faq_view.php?id=42

I've got latest drivers for me motherboard and graphic card
installed
3.13 for m. and 53.03 for gc. Latest Bios.

But I've noticed something while I'm surfing on internet or doing
something on me computer and playing music from me computer at the
sme time after few minutes computer just hang and screen goes black
but while I'm just surfing and doing things on computer it's OK?!
If
you know How and What please HELP!!!!!!!!! Thank
you!!!!!!

OK, I got new PS ( Q-Tec PSU 550W Dual Fan Gold), I'm happy that I
bought that but It have not resolved The problem still Crashes
sometimes. It must be something with drivers. Thanks Martin guite
good
PS and cheap.

Hi Paul,

Sorry to hear you still have a problem. At least you now have a heavy
duty PSU.

There are a couple of other things you could try.

Remove the Nvidia driver altogether using the following utility to
ensure no remnants of what was there before still lurk somewhere;

http://www.guru3d.com/detonator-destroyer/

Then install your new driver from scratch.

DaveL may have hit on something when he mentioned your sound card. You
might want to try this in a different PCI slot - preferably the one
furthest from the AGP slot your video card is in. Creative do not
follow the normal PCI standards, so it's just possible that there is
some conflict. You could of course just try removing the soundblaster
and trying the onboard sound just to see if it cures the problem...

Good luck mate - keep posting back.

Martin

OK, I got new PS ( Q-Tec PSU 550W Dual Fan Gold), I'm happy that I
bought that but It have not resolved The problem still Crashes
sometimes. It must be something with drivers. Thanks Martin guite good
PS and cheap.

Paul
From the beggining this didn't sound like a PSU problem.
One question, how confident are you that your memory (768 MB RAM) is
100% compatible with your motherboard?
Go and download microsoft's free memory tester (Windows Memory
Diagnostic)program from
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
Put it on a floppy and boot your PC of the floppy. It will start all
the tests immediately. Click T to run extensive tests. Leave it to run
for a while (2 hours or more) and let it complete at least 4 loops.
If after a while you can still see "No errors found" message at the
bottom half of the screen, your memory is fine, sorry to waste your
time.
If however, you get failures, go to your bios, reduce memory speed and
change to less aggressive settings. Run Windows Memory Diagnostic, and
play with the bios settings until you have no more memory failures.

Load windows XP, check whether you FX5200 still failes.
Please let me know if this helps in any way. It worked for me.

Regards
Goran Krajnovic
Belgrade, Serbia

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:57:15 -0000, "Martin"
wrote:

Paul wrote:
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 10:47:56 +0000, Paul wrote:

First I 'll describe me computer:
Windows XP pro
300w PS
XFX GF 5200 128 MB DDR TV-out (I'm ashemed, I don't know why i
bought
this ****)
768MB of RAM Crucial PC 2100 DDR
Monitor 17'' Belinea 10 30 22
Creative soundblaster 4.1 Digital
Maxtor 60 and 250 GB
Liteon CD-RW 52x32x52x
Motherboard Asus A7N266-VM


My problem is:
My system continually crash after installing my new XFX graphics
card. I found answer there
http://www.xfxforce.com/faq_view.php?id=42

I've got latest drivers for me motherboard and graphic card
installed
3.13 for m. and 53.03 for gc. Latest Bios.

But I've noticed something while I'm surfing on internet or doing
something on me computer and playing music from me computer at the
sme time after few minutes computer just hang and screen goes black
but while I'm just surfing and doing things on computer it's OK?!
If
you know How and What please HELP!!!!!!!!! Thank
you!!!!!!

OK, I got new PS ( Q-Tec PSU 550W Dual Fan Gold), I'm happy that I
bought that but It have not resolved The problem still Crashes
sometimes. It must be something with drivers. Thanks Martin guite
good
PS and cheap.

Hi Paul,

Sorry to hear you still have a problem. At least you now have a heavy
duty PSU.

There are a couple of other things you could try.

Remove the Nvidia driver altogether using the following utility to
ensure no remnants of what was there before still lurk somewhere;

http://www.guru3d.com/detonator-destroyer/

Then install your new driver from scratch.

DaveL may have hit on something when he mentioned your sound card. You
might want to try this in a different PCI slot - preferably the one
furthest from the AGP slot your video card is in. Creative do not
follow the normal PCI standards, so it's just possible that there is
some conflict. You could of course just try removing the soundblaster
and trying the onboard sound just to see if it cures the problem...

Good luck mate - keep posting back.

Martin


This tool doesn't support XP,does it?

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:56:09 +0000, Paul wrote:

On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 10:47:56 +0000, Paul wrote:

First I 'll describe me computer:
Windows XP pro
300w PS
XFX GF 5200 128 MB DDR TV-out (I'm ashemed, I don't know why i bought
this ****)
768MB of RAM Crucial PC 2100 DDR
Monitor 17'' Belinea 10 30 22
Creative soundblaster 4.1 Digital
Maxtor 60 and 250 GB
Liteon CD-RW 52x32x52x
Motherboard Asus A7N266-VM


My problem is:
My system continually crash after installing my new XFX graphics card.
I found answer there
http://www.xfxforce.com/faq_view.php?id=42

I've got latest drivers for me motherboard and graphic card installed
3.13 for m. and 53.03 for gc. Latest Bios.

But I've noticed something while I'm surfing on internet or doing
something on me computer and playing music from me computer at the sme
time after few minutes computer just hang and screen goes black but
while I'm just surfing and doing things on computer it's OK?! If you
know How and What please HELP!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!

OK, I got new PS ( Q-Tec PSU 550W Dual Fan Gold), I'm happy that I
bought that but It have not resolved The problem still Crashes
sometimes. It must be something with drivers. Thanks Martin guite good
PS and cheap.
And another thing Martin ASUS PC Probe show me +4.999 V instead of
+5V is it correct value? Me old PS got actually more than +5V.

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:56:09 +0000, Paul wrote:

On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 10:47:56 +0000, Paul wrote:

First I 'll describe me computer:
Windows XP pro
300w PS
XFX GF 5200 128 MB DDR TV-out (I'm ashemed, I don't know why i bought
this ****)
768MB of RAM Crucial PC 2100 DDR
Monitor 17'' Belinea 10 30 22
Creative soundblaster 4.1 Digital
Maxtor 60 and 250 GB
Liteon CD-RW 52x32x52x
Motherboard Asus A7N266-VM


My problem is:
My system continually crash after installing my new XFX graphics card.
I found answer there
http://www.xfxforce.com/faq_view.php?id=42

I've got latest drivers for me motherboard and graphic card installed
3.13 for m. and 53.03 for gc. Latest Bios.

But I've noticed something while I'm surfing on internet or doing
something on me computer and playing music from me computer at the sme
time after few minutes computer just hang and screen goes black but
while I'm just surfing and doing things on computer it's OK?! If you
know How and What please HELP!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!

OK, I got new PS ( Q-Tec PSU 550W Dual Fan Gold), I'm happy that I
bought that but It have not resolved The problem still Crashes
sometimes. It must be something with drivers. Thanks Martin guite good
PS and cheap.

I've done test for memory it's fine, Detonator-destroyer doesn't work
for me and I've uninstalled soundblaster. I've installed latest nForce
drivers for motherboard 3.13 and drivers for graphic card 55.03. I
made test: I was running Nero ,TMPGenc,Winamp,Internet explorer,
Agent, eMule,and Copying files from one folder to another ,and 2
opened windows.I was switching between them with no problemsat all.
Maybe it was soundblaster, idon't know but I've installed drivers
diffrentlly, someone in diffrent group told me that I should not
unistall display driver (after I've installed drivers for motherboard)
before I'm gonna install drivers for graphic card but I did.
And after I've installed motherbord driver I went to Fx 5200
properties and I've noticed driver 52.16 already
installed????????!!Strange.I don't remember that. So I uninstalled
that driver then installed latest one. That is it. I will keep
observetion. If everything's gonna be fine I'm gona install
soundblaster.OVER!!!!!!

OK, I got new PS ( Q-Tec PSU 550W Dual Fan Gold), I'm happy that I
bought that but It have not resolved The problem still Crashes
sometimes. It must be something with drivers. Thanks Martin guite
good PS and cheap.
And another thing Martin ASUS PC Probe show me +4.999 V instead of
+5V is it correct value? Me old PS got actually more than +5V.

+4.999v is perfectly fine. Having a higher voltage than spec is no
advantage, it's when it drops too much under load you have a problem.

Regards

Martin