Thanks for the ideas and help. It will give me a good start in the
troubleshooting. I appreciate the help.

Merry Christmas back to you......thanks.....Jerry
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Old Airforce


"Jaymon" wrote:

> 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
> > > >
> > > >