umm you could disable the hardware but without reading that all the way through I dunno. Why cant you just take it out its simple enough. Also have you tried installing an upto date driver for the graphics card... theres a few fixes for you.
umm you could disable the hardware but without reading that all the way through I dunno. Why cant you just take it out its simple enough. Also have you tried installing an upto date driver for the graphics card... theres a few fixes for you.
Reputation: 15Make sure you meet the specs for the card. That happened to me....I had to buy a 350watt power supply![]()
sorry it took a while for me to reply but its a pci slot and I already took it out I didnt try unistalling my old one so ill try that and how do you check the power supply my computer meets everything but im not sure about the power supply.
Download more ram.
you can do that how?
Reputation: 6If you can't install a gfx card correctly how do you even kno that what you bought is actually compatible?
Reputation: 10Those symptoms seem strange as usually if there is a gfx card problem it is either all gfx showing or none. What you are saying is happening is just as if your explorer.exe is crashing on windows. This would lead me to believe its prob some screwy driver situation. As people have stated previously i would make sure you uninstall your previous gfx drivers (but beware, if you do not have these backed up after doing this you wont be able to go back to your old setup) and then run the cd that came with your gfx card. It may be your power supply, but i doubt it for most pci cards are not very power hungry.
As for checking the wattage of your power supply, u can usually find this by looking at the side of the power supply(usually on a sticker) look for a number showing something like 250W or 300W. That will be your max wattage. Most basic cards can run on 250-300, higher end cards are much higher
Reputation: 10This dude's a noob. You uninstall your old gfx drivers in system properties. Than you plug in the CD for the new GFX card. From there it installs it than says to shut down PC and install card. Upon re-boot, everything should work normal.
Not so hard was it?
Reputation: 10300 WATTS?!?!?!?! LOL WITH A 8800GTS!?! dude u should of really look at the requirements before installing that, 8800GTS needs atleast 400 Watts i believe im using the same card but superclocked and i have a 600W PSU, make sure u up that ASAP. but having low PSU doesnt screw with ur windows texture.
Reputation: 16I am going for 8800GT soon and I have 750 Watt PSU muahaha