It all started oh about 4 months ago when I bought and built my own computer from Newegg.com. The two primary parts for my problem are:
Aopen AK89- Max, with a AMD 64 3000+
BFG 5700 Ultra (purchased at Bestbuy last December)
What happened was when I went into Video Intensive programs; ie Games, the basis of my computer life; the game would freeze and about 2-3 minutes later a blue screen would come up saying in essence, "There is an error in: nv4_disp.dll" (this file is the nvidia Drivers file)
At first I did a number of things, including new drivers and changing video settings and still no fix. I called Aopen Tech support and they told us that it was the video card company, not them. Here is when I first called BFG Tech support (very good and fast), they did something, I am unsure what, the fixed my computer.
However about the begining of this month the error came back, at first I thought it was just a "hiccup" of the system, so I let it slide. Then next week it happened again, and slowly it got worse and worse to the point that it crashed in the first 1-5 minutes of gameplay. So I call BFG once more this time I get a RMA, which came very fast, I might add. Still no fix, I call them again and get a 2nd RMA (after mailing back the first). Once more it doesn't work, so my dad suggests we take it out and switch cards with his system, a XP 2500+ system. His video card is an old Geforce 2 MX 32 MB. First my card works flawless in his system. Then I plug his card into my new one, and guess what the old card works flawlessly. We call BFG once more and they told us to send back one RMA and try some wierd thing, which did nothing.
It appears that my card is totally incompatitable, with my motherboard. Now, me and my dad are going to probably get a new motherboard, as that will probably be cheaper to replace tham the video card.
Does anyone else have a better idea for what to do?
Also, power is not a problem, I have 350 Watts and my dad only has 250 watts in his system, so it wouldn't work in my dads if it was power.
Aopen AK89- Max, with a AMD 64 3000+
BFG 5700 Ultra (purchased at Bestbuy last December)
What happened was when I went into Video Intensive programs; ie Games, the basis of my computer life; the game would freeze and about 2-3 minutes later a blue screen would come up saying in essence, "There is an error in: nv4_disp.dll" (this file is the nvidia Drivers file)
At first I did a number of things, including new drivers and changing video settings and still no fix. I called Aopen Tech support and they told us that it was the video card company, not them. Here is when I first called BFG Tech support (very good and fast), they did something, I am unsure what, the fixed my computer.
However about the begining of this month the error came back, at first I thought it was just a "hiccup" of the system, so I let it slide. Then next week it happened again, and slowly it got worse and worse to the point that it crashed in the first 1-5 minutes of gameplay. So I call BFG once more this time I get a RMA, which came very fast, I might add. Still no fix, I call them again and get a 2nd RMA (after mailing back the first). Once more it doesn't work, so my dad suggests we take it out and switch cards with his system, a XP 2500+ system. His video card is an old Geforce 2 MX 32 MB. First my card works flawless in his system. Then I plug his card into my new one, and guess what the old card works flawlessly. We call BFG once more and they told us to send back one RMA and try some wierd thing, which did nothing.
It appears that my card is totally incompatitable, with my motherboard. Now, me and my dad are going to probably get a new motherboard, as that will probably be cheaper to replace tham the video card.
Does anyone else have a better idea for what to do?
Also, power is not a problem, I have 350 Watts and my dad only has 250 watts in his system, so it wouldn't work in my dads if it was power.