Help with video card

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Zeppelin1255

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I recently bought a new computer, a Dell Demension 3000, not a new computer but new to me. Its a Pentium 4 3.0ghz, 768 or something like that of ram. Anways, the computer runs fine. The problem started when I was trying to run world of warcraft. The computer opened it fine, and I had a problem where anytime i went outside of a building that i would get a maximum of 4 frames per second. I noticed the computer did not have a video card installed, and I figued if it had on board graphics it probably wasnt enough to handle the game even though the computer specs itself were enough to run it by alot. So i went out and got myself a BFG Nvidia GeForce 6200a 256mb graphics card. I followed the directions step by step, by first disabling the display adapters already there, inserting the new card into the pci slot, and installing the drivers. Now every time i open the game, it either immediately freezes and the computer automatically restarts itself, or it will open the game and let me login and when it does this the frame rate is awesome over 30-40 FPS, so it seems as though the video card is doing its job, but in the cases it lets me open the game usually within a few minutes it freezes up and restarts itself again just like it does when it doesnt let me open the game. Now before i put the new video card in like i said it would run the game, just incredibily slowly at very low FPS, so I dont think it is something wrong with the computer, if anyone has any suggestions please help.

P.S. I forgot to add that I had already tried going to the BFG website and installing the latest drivers, this actuallly made things worse as it doesnt even let me sometimes log into the game before it crashes and restarts.
 
Welcome to Dell...768 of what??? GB...MB...DDR...DDR2...DDR3...or what?
If you are going to upgrade...better be buying your parts from Dell...and pay their higher price.
 
sorry i meant 738mb ram, just putting specs for my comp. for you. also the side of the PSU says 500w max and the card only asks for 250w so that should be fine. I called the BFG tech support and they said to unistall drivers and try 84.21 drivers, i did that and it didnt work, then they said if that didnt work and updating bios and chipset didnt then it was a fautly card and to exchange it, so i exchanged it and same problem with second card, the only thing i dont understand about it is the box says pci 2.0, now i know that isnt pci express or agp, but is there away to tell if my regular pci is 2.0 and if its not would that be a problem? my computer only has 3 pci ports and 1 pci express port i believe as it is the same as the picture on the box that shows what ports look like, and i have no agp, any more help would be appreciated
 
do u have heat problems? could be why the computer is restarting it self? whats ur cpu temps, mobo temps?

could be a bad stick of ram another reason why its restarting? try running mem test or tryin another stick of ram if u have a spare.

try re-installing world of warcraft.
 
ok, its not heat or ram restarting the computer restarting the computer, because i just turned off auto restart on system crash and it doesnt do it anymore, it was just the autoboot, so now instead I get a blue error screen which says the problem seems to be with file NV4.dsp or something like that, i tried reinstalling windows and world of warcraft, and now the times when your dead in the game come out black and white, and about 5 minutes into the game it froze again, still with sound in background, and then the error screen came up and then i had to restart, also since the new installs every time i moved my mouse some weird lines would come up on the screen, only during playing wow though. the only other thing i can do aside from returning the computer, wireless adapter, and video card, since i cannot return the world of warcraft games now that they are open is to try this very old PNY nvidia 32mb vid card i have lying around, but i dont think that will give much performance over what the computer is doing without a video card installed, anyways i think this is my only option unless someone out there has any new ideas, which would be muchly appreciated, thanks.
 
Zeppelin1255 said:
sorry i meant 738mb ram, just putting specs for my comp. for you. also the side of the PSU says 500w max and the card only asks for 250w so that should be fine. I called the BFG tech support and they said to unistall drivers and try 84.21 drivers, i did that and it didnt work, then they said if that didnt work and updating bios and chipset didnt then it was a fautly card and to exchange it, so i exchanged it and same problem with second card, the only thing i dont understand about it is the box says pci 2.0, now i know that isnt pci express or agp, but is there away to tell if my regular pci is 2.0 and if its not would that be a problem? my computer only has 3 pci ports and 1 pci express port i believe as it is the same as the picture on the box that shows what ports look like, and i have no agp, any more help would be appreciated
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Well I don't see why your using a pci card when you have a pci express slot on the machine....
 
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