Video card driver windows crash HELP!

gillmanjr

gillmanjr

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I have an old Dell Dimension 4300s - 1.6 GHz P4, 1GB Ram with Win XP. It had a 64 MB NVidia2 MX video card that came installed factory. I am buying a new 20" HD monitor so I also bought a 128 MB NVidia GeForce TI 4200 4x video card so I can hook up the new monitor with DVI. I just put the new video card in, downloaded the driver from NVidia's website and installed it. After the install I restarted the computer and windows wouldn't start! I had to do a restore to get windows to start back up. I uninstalled the NVidia driver and tried to reinstall it. After I reinstalled it I did NOT restart the computer - it recognized the video card and seemed to be working, but then a few minutes later windows crashed again. Can anyone help PLEASE!?!?
 
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nobody has any ideas???

Well I've been screwing around with this for a while now and I have more information for you...

This is the weirdest thing I have ever seen or heard about a computer doing: When I put the new card back in it again I left the case to my computer open and left it laying down on it's side because I knew I was going to be taking the card back out again. With the case open IT WORKED - the drivers installed correctly and windows started up - everything worked fine. But then as soon as I physically touched the computer to close the case and stand it back up windows crashed on me. It did this twice - is this a hardware issue? Or could it be that I don't have adequate power and the system is just very unstable with that card installed?

btw when windows crashes it gives me the BSOD - the error is an nv4_disp infinite loop.
 
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