- Joined
- Dec 13, 2003
- Location
- San Jose, Cali
Well about 2 days ago, I turned on my comp, and it was at 1024/768, and then a popup came up that said something like no ati driver was found (or something like that). Then, I restarted my comp and everything was fine...for a day.
Yesterday, out of no where, my comp. kept hanging and restarting (sometimes). I just installed avast (cause symantec would only work when i'm at school) so I thought it might have something to do with avast and/or zonealarm. So I reinstalled both of those, and no I don't freeze anymore. BUT, when I go into games, my comp will ALWAYS freeze before the game even loads.
Also, one time I restarted yesterday, the bios said "No power cable connected to videocard". So I turned off my comp, and took out the OZ powercleaning cable (can't remember what it's called). I thought something in there might have got messed up when I recently installed a 250gig hd that is right next to the ati card.
Now windows runs great, but everytime I go into any game it freezes before it loads. What can I do to see if the card is shot or not? I was going to reinstall windows, but would rather not, lol.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I also put my 3200+, ram, and videocard back at STOCK to make sure it wasn't anything wrong with them.
Yesterday, out of no where, my comp. kept hanging and restarting (sometimes). I just installed avast (cause symantec would only work when i'm at school) so I thought it might have something to do with avast and/or zonealarm. So I reinstalled both of those, and no I don't freeze anymore. BUT, when I go into games, my comp will ALWAYS freeze before the game even loads.
Also, one time I restarted yesterday, the bios said "No power cable connected to videocard". So I turned off my comp, and took out the OZ powercleaning cable (can't remember what it's called). I thought something in there might have got messed up when I recently installed a 250gig hd that is right next to the ati card.
Now windows runs great, but everytime I go into any game it freezes before it loads. What can I do to see if the card is shot or not? I was going to reinstall windows, but would rather not, lol.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I also put my 3200+, ram, and videocard back at STOCK to make sure it wasn't anything wrong with them.