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| I bought a new video card a week ago. GeForce FX 5900 256 mb, worked great. I tried to install and run Mechwarrior 4 today, kept freezing, so I assumed that it wasn't supported. When I restarted, my system is set to 640X480 4 bit color. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the driver, when there is no driver installed it is set to 800X600 16-bit color, and looks good but I can't set it any higher, and when I reinstall the driver it goes back to the 4-bit crap. I formated my computer, didn't help, then I tried changing out the video card, my old one worked fine, changed them back, worked just fine, but I just rebooted and now I'm back to the same old crap again... anyone else have this problem? Is the Video Card bad? I should be able to return it for a new one if I act quick, I paid $410 and this is really getting to me... Thanx for your help...
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mabey its a power issue? what kinda video card did you replace with this 5900?
which motherboard is it?
OK, so i am Guessing, but i try hard 
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| I replaced it with my old GeForce 3 Ti 200, and its an Asus A7V8X motherboard, wierd thing is that it didn't happen until just recently, also, I have noticed that changing the AGP apeture size in the bios changes things, 64 MB is where I can't change it from 4-bit, 128 MB I can take it whereever I want, but it seem like some icons are missing, or black, and sometimes there are big black squares missing from the display...
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does your system qualify ?
Minimum System Requirements
• Intel Pentium®III, AMD® Duron™ or Athlon™ class processor or higher
• 128MB of RAM
• A minimum 350W system power supply
• An AGP compliant motherboard. Some motherboards violate the AGP specification
and therefore this card may not physically fit
in some systems
• A vacant PCI slot adjacent to the AGP slot. This board occupies two slots: one AGP and one PCI
• An available hard disk drive power dongle (smaller floppy disk drive connector is not sufficient)
• CD or DVD-ROM Drive
• 10MB available hard disk space (50 MB for full installation)
• Microsoft® Windows® 95 OSR2, 98 or higher, ME, 2000, XP, NT4.0 with service pack 5 or 6
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My system info is this
Asus A7V8X motherboard
1024 GB Kinston DDR 2700 RAM (2 512 chips)
Athlon XP 2100+ processor
Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
500 Watt power supply
120GB HD
16X DVD rom
GeForce FX 5900 256 MB
Windows XP Pro (would you suggest I try reverting to 2000 or anything, I have it, just don't use it anymore...)
Like I said, it was working, then I installed Mechwarrior 4 and bam, issues. And they continue even after a format and such. It was working again, and it sorta is now, (many icons appear black). Before this happened there were very rare visual distortions in the desktop that rarely happened when opening expolorer, and only lasted about a second...
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i doubt it is an OS issue. so whether it's 2000 or XP is irrelavent. make sure your motherboard drivers are up to date. that there are no conflicts in Device Manger. then (i suspect video driver corruption) so i recommend driver cleaner (do the cab clean first. read the instructions and follow them to the letter !). it solved my blinking display trouble brilliantly ! get it @ http://www.driverheaven.net/cleaner/
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ya drivers , sounds good to me, but he said he formatted. i think that FULL removal of all drivers prior to installing other drivers sure reduces possible problems with driver mixing and stuff. especially in XP, where the AI repair thing tries to replace and fix stuff, before you even get stuff 1/2 removed. and a format using the XP install disk i am not sure if it completly wipes the disk clean, only because it didnt once on me.
also a ram BIT memory test while still in dos (so ALL memory can be tested) like 'docmem' will test that from a floppy. then a ram heat test, which sisoft sandra free version will do in its burnin tests. because your computer mem does get 'shared' or at least allocated to be shared when you set the AGP memory meg quantity, doing that would insure for ALL purposes that the computers memory is running stable with the settings for the memory in the bios.
so this Mechwarrior4 thing really taxes the video card more than anything you used before?
and the agp at 64 is a problem, is it a problem at 32M?
and does anything change when you turn off 8x agp and go with 4x agp?
OK, so i am Guessing, but i try hard
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