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ASUS EN7950 GT 512MB .. pROBLEM!

Hi. My computer is Dell 8400 Dimension, windows XP. bought about a year and a half ago I bought a new card, ASUS EN7950 GT 512MB and tried to install it. I deleted my old VGA driver, (x300) and turned the computer off, plugged the new 7950gt (with auxilary power cables plugged), and turned my computer on. The moment when my computer was on, the monitor got pixilated, with green stripes and purple stripes. most of all, It WOULDN'T GO PAST THE xp loading bar. strange Changing green pattern appears and my computer goes blank, and that blue screen appears saying: something about nv4_disp how the device got stuck into an infinite loop and how the problem might be the hardware itself or the driver in charge of the hardware. I can't even get to setting up the drivers of 7950 cause it can't get to windows XP. I tried VGA and Safe mode, but it doesn't install there. I believe that somehow the drivers of my old ATI card isn't clearly deleted (but i deleted it using control panel and checked with device manager and it was gone) and was clashing with the new nvidia card.. Help please..

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  • Problema Oct 10, 2007

    by the way my computer's psu is crappy 350w...
    maybe this is the problem. But not too sure.

  • Problema Oct 10, 2007

    you mean i should install my x300 and 7950gt drivers at the same time, when my computer's running on x300, then boot up then load the asus drivers and close the system and install the 7950gt and boot up? and then delete the x300 drivers?



     



    is in't it the psus problem? I heard that 7950gt needs at least 400w of powersupply... but i will try your idea.



    thanks for the kind reply



     

  • Problema Oct 10, 2007

    i cannot install the drivers for 7950gt while i'm using x300. It says that it cannot find the correct hardware for the driver...(it should say that cause i'm using x300 at the time of installation..)



    so it doesn't work.



    or am i following your instructions unclearly.  . .

  • Problema Oct 21, 2007

    my BIOS settings don't offer adjustments to  WGA and Plug and Play  settings...



    what should I do..



    should I just replace the card?

  • Problema Oct 21, 2007

    my BIOS doesn't offer adjustments to WGA and PLUG AND PLAY settings...



    what should I do...?



    (IS IT THE ONE THAT I GO INTO BY PRESSING F2 BEFORE LAUNCHING THE SYSTEM?)

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Your PSU isn't the problem.  350W is more then enough to run the video card into windows... Windows isn't 3d accelerated meaning the video card can run in it without the video card's power supply intact. Like Beni said, go into your Bios and disable your old WGA and activate Plug and Play as your main. Hope you get this fixed :D

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U should go to the BIOS AND desable OLD WGA and PLUG AND PLAY must be ACTIVE ( yess )

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    arben pllana Oct 11, 2007

    And try to install driver just from device menager  , do not use setup to install driver...



     



    Tell me if u got help?

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Hi, I think you will need to run the Dell restore disk, install the orriginal drivers and use the dell system to bootup then load the drivers the ASUS drivers then close the system, install the new card and then bootup. on doing this there will be resident drivers for the new card and it should work fine, then delete the orriginal drivers.

Regards mistyman

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