e-GeForce FX 5500 problems

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TannerB23

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Ok, I went and bought a new graphics card on Saturday.

I uninstalled the old graphics card, turned the computer off and put the new one in and turned the computer on. It fires up, I pop in the cd that came with it when windows finds the new graphics card. The drivers are installed now. I load up Counter Strike: Source play for about 10 minutes, then the screen goes all red and different colors, I can't see anything and it is lagging amazingly bad. I go to the manufacturers website, download the latest drivers (93.71 I believe) install them. Same problem. So I reinstall the card, ok everything is good now. BAM! Same problem! I installed the new drivers right after installation too. The weird thing is, this only happens when I'm in a full screen game of some sort. I'm perfectly fine typing this message right now.

The card is e-GeForce FX 5500, upgraded from a GeForce 4 440 MX.

Ask for any specs and I'll edit them in.
 
First off, upgrading from a 440 to an FX5500 wasnt that big of a jump.

But anyways, is your card using a fan or a heatsink? It sounds like it's overheating. If it uses a fan, check to see if the fan comes on. If it's on, it may just be going really slow, so I would download RivaTuner and set the fan speed to 100%, and see if that helps.
 
I never said it was a big jump =/

Anyways, it's fan cooled. I even have the side of the case off to try and cool it more. Just running RivaTuner right now and I'll see if that helps.

is 93.71 not the latest drivers for this card?

Edit: All the fans are at 100%
 
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TannerB23 said:
I never said it was a big jump =/

Anyways, it's fan cooled. I even have the side of the case off to try and cool it more. Just running RivaTuner right now and I'll see if that helps.

is 93.71 not the latest drivers for this card?

Edit: All the fans are at 100%
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drivers: not even close to being the problem.
fans: not probable, but possible that there is alot of dust, or something blocking airflow
the card is old, and by todays standards, you couldnt quad sli that thing into a good card. i believe that your only option is to get a better mobo, and upgrade to something like a 6800 or a 1900gt
 
i put in another post how to fix the reboots with that card, all u do is go to device manager and go to system devices and then switch the agp to cpu things to pci to pci standard bridge, this seems to fix the problem 90 % of the time.
 
XanderCage said:
i put in another post how to fix the reboots with that card, all u do is go to device manager and go to system devices and then switch the agp to cpu things to pci to pci standard bridge, this seems to fix the problem 90 % of the time.
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If you do that its not running in AGP mode anymore!
 
I have the same problem when I upgrade coming from an old motherboard, you must have an old board the new card agp must require a higher speed maybe agp8x.
 
The FX5500 is not a high-end card, and therefor most likely wont be bottlenecked much by running in PCI mode (hence why they also make PCI versions of the card).
 
I was looking through that RivaTuner and noticed some odd things. The AGP slot on my mobo is AGP Pro which should run the card at AGP 8x should it not? but it is only running it at 4x. Another little thing I've noticed is only newer games make the card go crazy. I can run the original counter strike but not source or guild wars. I'll try switching it to PCI mode.

Edit: Doing what XanderCage said to do seems to have fixed all the problems I was having. Thanks.
 
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