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- May 4, 2004
Well I hope someone have 5 min for reading this story cause I really need it:
I have a really really good friend of mine, and he bought a used radeon 9500 np sapphire video card, and put it on this system:
- Motherboard: Aopen AX4B Pro-533 (Bus 533)
- CPU: P4 2.66 Ghz (Bus 533)
- 1 x 256 Mb DDR300 and 1 x 512 Mb DDR266
- 2 x 80Gb Maxtor HDD and 1 40GB Maxtor HDD
- A standard 300W PSU
- LG Studioworks 775n 17” Display
* All of this hardware has almost a year…
So, when he was using the sapphire card for 5 months, suddenly some day after buying a new LG 900B 19” Display, the card didn’t work anymore, the system doesn’t saw it. After testing the card on others PCs, we take the conclusion that it was broken.
So, now, I sold him a HIS Excalibur Radeon 9600 Pro Video Card in perfects conditions, and with no problems, with this hardware changes:
- Motherboard: Asus P4P800-VM (Bus 800)
- CPU: P4 2.8 Ghz (Bus 800)
- All the others are the same
After a month of normal and non intensive using (I mean no hard gaming use), the card stat to show artifacts, at any time, in the POST screen, in the boot screen and in windows, … conclusion: It’s broken…
Now I think, that something it’s wrong with this PC, I mean the new 19” display or the PSU because as I said before he changes de MB and the CPU.
So I need to know any opinion of anyone here I really need to help this friend…. Please help me!!!
I have a really really good friend of mine, and he bought a used radeon 9500 np sapphire video card, and put it on this system:
- Motherboard: Aopen AX4B Pro-533 (Bus 533)
- CPU: P4 2.66 Ghz (Bus 533)
- 1 x 256 Mb DDR300 and 1 x 512 Mb DDR266
- 2 x 80Gb Maxtor HDD and 1 40GB Maxtor HDD
- A standard 300W PSU
- LG Studioworks 775n 17” Display
* All of this hardware has almost a year…
So, when he was using the sapphire card for 5 months, suddenly some day after buying a new LG 900B 19” Display, the card didn’t work anymore, the system doesn’t saw it. After testing the card on others PCs, we take the conclusion that it was broken.
So, now, I sold him a HIS Excalibur Radeon 9600 Pro Video Card in perfects conditions, and with no problems, with this hardware changes:
- Motherboard: Asus P4P800-VM (Bus 800)
- CPU: P4 2.8 Ghz (Bus 800)
- All the others are the same
After a month of normal and non intensive using (I mean no hard gaming use), the card stat to show artifacts, at any time, in the POST screen, in the boot screen and in windows, … conclusion: It’s broken…
Now I think, that something it’s wrong with this PC, I mean the new 19” display or the PSU because as I said before he changes de MB and the CPU.
So I need to know any opinion of anyone here I really need to help this friend…. Please help me!!!