FX-5200 hell

Hi

I have a fairly new Dell Dimension 4550 (P-4 2.4 GHZ) running XP, and I
decided that I needed a 128 MB video card, so I replaced the Geoforce MX-
420 that came with the machine with an FX-5200 (both AGP). No problem at
first, I used the driver from the included CD, and it worked fine.

A few days later, I power up, and the display is screwed up, multiple
images, unreadable text etc, even during the POST. I can't troubleshoot it
in Windows because I can't see what I'm doing. I called Nvidia tech
support, and got the expected "get the latest driver" speech. It didn't
help. If I use the old card, everything is great, and I don't have another
machine to test the new card in. Nvidia said to return the card, as I
figured they would.

Can anyone help? Has anyone seen this before?

Thanks.

jb

RMA the card
"JB" wrote in message
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Hi

I have a fairly new Dell Dimension 4550 (P-4 2.4 GHZ) running XP, and I
decided that I needed a 128 MB video card, so I replaced the Geoforce MX-
420 that came with the machine with an FX-5200 (both AGP). No problem at
first, I used the driver from the included CD, and it worked fine.

A few days later, I power up, and the display is screwed up, multiple
images, unreadable text etc, even during the POST. I can't troubleshoot it
in Windows because I can't see what I'm doing. I called Nvidia tech
support, and got the expected "get the latest driver" speech. It didn't
help. If I use the old card, everything is great, and I don't have another
machine to test the new card in. Nvidia said to return the card, as I
figured they would.

Can anyone help? Has anyone seen this before?

Thanks.

jb

I had the same basic problem on a friends GeoForce 256...the card was
fried..if you change it out and everything is fine RMA it back.

"dino" wrote in news:nRjPa.16785$Tx.811609
@news20.bellglobal.com:

I had the same basic problem on a friends GeoForce 256...the card was
fried..if you change it out and everything is fine RMA it back.

Thanks everyone. I returned the card.

jb