Your video cards aperture settings in the bios are they set to 256mb or
showing this for the card..? You might try using your old video card to see
if the problem goes away, your call..?
It might be your mainboards AGP slot is limiting the new card or the new
card is too fast for your system..? |Supports AGP 8x up to 2133MB/sec. and
AGP 4x up to|
|1066MB/sec. bandwidth for 3D graphics applications | See if in Everest,
under motherboard, chipset, AGP controller, see aperture size, is it 250mb..?
Also, see display, GPU and look at the bandwidth..?
Look in the manual to make sure your DFI mainboard and the PSU completely
conform and comply..

As far as overall temps go in the case, try opening the side and use a
household fan to disperse heated air, see if any change occurs. Did you use
thermal paste on the CPU before fitting the CPU's fan housing..?
If there is an air space between the CPU's surface and the fan plate mount,
it won't disperse heat properly either..
Food for thought..
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas..
j;-j

"Jerrye" wrote:

> It freezes at random times not everyday or every time I leave it alone, but
> always freezes after extended period of time. I have checked power shutdown
> settings and they are all set to "never" and no screensaver selected. I will
> check usb settings. thanks for your help.
> --
> Old Airforce
>
>
> "Jerrye" wrote:
>
> > Yes this is a possibility......I will check it.....but I would think that
> > the card would fail if I made it work hard and I cannot get it to fail
> > on demand, it continues to be random and mostly after a long wait of
> > inactivity.
> > --
> > Old Airforce
> >
> >
> > "Bob I" wrote:
> >
> > > Looks to me like graphics card is possible overheating, try popping the
> > > cover. And is the fan on the card still working?
> > >
> > > Jerrye wrote:
> > >
> > > > I recently installed a FX5500 256mg Graphics card and have had random freezes
> > > > eversince, I thought it might be the power supply and I installed a Ultra
> > > > ULT31558 500w supply, I still get random freezes.....any other ideas or is
> > > > the Ultra not a good power supply, it seems stable on -- using HwDoctor.
> > > >
> > > > DFI AD77 mobo
> > > > Amd XP 2gig
> > > > 768 Ram
> > > > 2 hard drives
> > > > 2 DVD drives
> > > > FX5500 256 Graphics
> > > > Ultra Xconnect 500W Power supply
> > > >
> > > > Old Airforce
> > >
> > >