08-19-2002, 05:45 PM
My home PC died on me yesterday, and I'm not sure why.
Had an All-In-Wonder card. Everything worked fine for several months. Then, PC refused to play games and would freeze up on multimedia clips. Anything from the opening of the games to a short .mov file would cause the computer to freeze and SOMETIMES reboot. When it did reboot, WinXP blamed it on the video card.
The errors happened more and more frequently, so I figure the card was burning out. On Sunday, it refused to work for more than 2 minutes at a time, or until I tried to open anything with pictures.
So, I pulled out the All-In-Wonder, and put in my old Voodoo Stealth, hoping to at least be able to get internet and word processing working. No luck. Same errors. Just as fast.
So, not sure what's going on. A-I-W is an AGP card. The Stealth is PCI, so I know it's not the slot.
Anybody got any ideas?
Don't know if it's worth spending a $100 on a new card just to try getting it working.
Had an All-In-Wonder card. Everything worked fine for several months. Then, PC refused to play games and would freeze up on multimedia clips. Anything from the opening of the games to a short .mov file would cause the computer to freeze and SOMETIMES reboot. When it did reboot, WinXP blamed it on the video card.
The errors happened more and more frequently, so I figure the card was burning out. On Sunday, it refused to work for more than 2 minutes at a time, or until I tried to open anything with pictures.
So, I pulled out the All-In-Wonder, and put in my old Voodoo Stealth, hoping to at least be able to get internet and word processing working. No luck. Same errors. Just as fast.
So, not sure what's going on. A-I-W is an AGP card. The Stealth is PCI, so I know it's not the slot.
Anybody got any ideas?
Don't know if it's worth spending a $100 on a new card just to try getting it working.
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