Hi I am hoping that someone here can help me out with problems I have with my new graphics card, I am not sure if it is a software problem or a hardware one. The computer I have was made up by a friend three years ago and I just felt it was time to upgrade my graphics card! So I got the HIS HD 4670 IceQ 1GB (128bit) 850 MHz DDR3 PCIe a few days ago and loaded it yesterday with the updates that I could find on the internet. However this morning when I started my computer I got to my desktop and while it was loading the computer rebooted itself and has been working ok since. But I got a error warning when I returned to windows and it told me to update my drivers and hardware! I also noticed that in the hardware profiles I have the following with question marks on them; ? ! PCI Memory Controller ? ! SM Bus Controller ! Unknown Device (Sound, video and game controllers) So would these three items be causing my problems or something else? Plus does anyone know how I can resolve these issues? Just in case you need to know what I have in my computer, here is what I think you might need to know; Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Super Mini Tower (With The SmartPower 2.0 450W ATX12V v2.01 Power Supply) 1 Rear 120mm Tri Cool Fan AMD 64 Athlon 3200+ 3 GB of Ram 250GB Hard Drive 500 GB External Drive Windows XP Pro (Service Pack 3) And if you need any more information, please let me know can I can supply it. I appreciate anyone?s help with these problems. Thanks Mark
SOURCE: EA Game ''Spore'' - Videocard & Driver Issue
Well, I can solve it but it is somewhat bad news. Basically your video card is not powerful enough. Here are the ATI specs from the EA website;
and here are NVIDIA
I would recommend buying a new video card. You can pick up a NVIDIA 8400 thru 8600 for about $30 or $40 from Frys.com or newegg.com sometimes cheaper with rebate.
They are fairly easy to install.
Good Luck.
SOURCE: monitor screen freeze with driver...
hi! you don't need to update the driver cause the problem is in your hardware. Graphic seems to be a bit grounded, try cleaning the contact pins of your AGP graphic card with eraser, clean it side by side and then put it back again to an AGP slot, then boot your CPU again. If it still the same, try it in another motherboard that support you graphic card just to be sure before we conclude that its the graphic card has the problem. Anyway if it still under warranty you can claim for a replacement to the store where you bought the graphic card. Have a nice day!
SOURCE: My computer comes up with a black screen
try and start in safe mode
then see if your driver is correct in my computer property hardware devices
SOURCE: Computer restarts on game start
Remove all traces of ATI drivers from add/remove programs and reboot before trying to install the newest Catalyst Control Center. The latest - 9.4 - does NOT have your card listed (they list the PCIe version, not AGP).
Recently ATI removed support for many of their "legacy" cards. 9.3 may be of more use to you.
SOURCE: problem running video with ATI x1300 video card
that is an old budget graphics card not meant for gaming. An Ati 3650 or Nvidia 8600gt or better would suffice for gaming. The minimum specs for games show what is needed just to play the game at the lowest detail and resolution. UPGRADE!
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My motherboard is A8N-E
Hi
My motherboard is A8N-E and yes I have the disc it came wit it.
Thanks for your help
Mark
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I have ran the CD and it said on it Nvidia Chipset Driver Program plus other things I could run, so do I run Nvidia Chipset Driver Program? If so will that have affect the drivers for my graphics card and will I have to reinstall them?
Can I update the Chipset Drivers if so where do I go to find them?
I appreciate your help Thanks
Mark
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Loaded the chipset from the disc - NVIDIA nForce 4 Ultra, I checked my Device Manager and the qustion marks on the PCI Memory Controller
and SM Bus Controller are gone, all that seems to be left to sort out is the unknown device (Sound, video and game controllers) and thanks a million for your help with this!
Thanks
Mark
Hi
When I
go to this item it says the following; The
drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28) - To reinstall the drivers
for this device, click Reinstall Driver.
Mark
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