X700 Le

[Synthetic]

Hello Everyone, I would first like to say this is my first post here, so I hope I will find this a good experience .

I recently built my own PC, and as the title says the GPU is a X700LE(http://www.abit-usa.com/products/graphics/techspec.php?categories=2&model=250).

I was playin world of warcraft today and then it minimized and I got some error message something along the lines of 'driver not receiving messages/responding'. I clicked 'OK' or w/e and went back to playing. A few minutes later, the whole computer completely crashed, and the monitor said 'no signal' as if the computer was not on.

I DL'd the new drivers and I think I installed them (Sidenote: Can anyone tell me how I install them ) Since then there has been no problems. (Hours later)

So what it boils down to, is, does anyone have any ideas what to do:
* Is this some fluke?
* Did the drivers fix the problem (note: not really sure how to install)
* Is the card dying? (if so I am incredibly angry, since its like 3 months old )

Thanks for reading, hope to get some advice soon... Since if this is broken, Santa's gettin' a new list

EDIT: Is there any surefire way to check is my VidCard is OK? After drivers are properly installed, etc.

Synth

 

[Synthetic]

/bump

 

[Geoff]

The drivers should be an EXE file. Go to www.ati.com and download it from there, then simply double click on the file and it will install. It seems like it's just a software problem, there shouldnt be anything wrong with the hardware.

 

[Synthetic]

My bro told me I needed to uninstall the other drivers first, is this true? And if so, how.

 

[Greg J.]

You can use this program to clean out your older drivers. After you install and run this program, go to "Tools"--"Live Update" to get the program updates. Select "ATI" from the drop-down list and click "clean".

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Uninstallers/Driver-Cleaner-Professional.shtml


Don't worry if Windows complains about system changes. Allow the changes. Let the program clean out the current drivers. Reboot (program may prompt), and let Windows load it's generic video driver.

Go to the official ATI site and download and install the newest drivers for your video card.

 

[Synthetic]

Thanks for the help everyone. BTW, is there something I can do, after installing the new drivers to some how prove for sure my VidCard is OK?

 

[diduknowthat]

play some other game and see if it works, also, run some 3dmarks and see if the scores come out right.