Graphics card dying & can i use
 

looks my Gr card is dying, the screen goes black and the monitor keeps going into standby every couple of mins ..requiring a restart..

if i buy a new pc (sata) is there anyway i can use my ide drives with it? lots of movies and stuff on them

Mart

it looks like its the card.... had a bsod pointing to the hardware...

ive knocked the bitplane setting down and its running again, but for how long i dont know...

mind you the charred section of the mobo near the front usb ports possibly accounts for the burning smell :D

anyone got an agp graphics card thats obsolete? ;)

mart

my cctv machine at work has just killed its GFX card and i had a look under my bed, found a 32mb geforce 2 mx200 with no fan :D

http://www.gearxs.com/gearxs/images/DA720.jpg

i think its agpx4 only? (no idea where it even came from :D )
how i was surprised when it not only worked :eek: but it worked fine with two x 4 channel DVR cards installed in the machine (running 8 cameras) :eek:

all this technology and no fan :lol:

It was only last year when I stopped using my Pheonix Voodoo Banshee (pci) card...Although recently I dumped it in my current system when I fancied tring out a 3 montior video wall and was short of a graphics card :lol1:

It worked! and seeimingly better than the poxy pile of rubbish that is my 7600GS which won't play HD video properly :mad:

Anyhoo, you can get SATA mobos with EIDE interfaces, mine has 4 SATAs and 3 IDE channels (so thats 6 IDE drives ).

Which is fine apart from the HDs I connected to the interfaces controlled by the ITE8211F interface chip threw a hissy fit every 10mins. Not tried them since I changed the OS so fingers crossed

For that I DO NOT reccomend a Asus P5LD2, which has to be the most unstable motherboard I have ever owned...thats ignoring the catostrophic RAM chip failure that wrecked my original OS install and the gfx glitches :mad:

Rant off. :)

It doesn't necessarily follow - BSODs are often RAM , and sometime software.


As for the motherboard, all current ones have at least one IDE port (i.e. two IDE devices) but many ONLY have one.


Personally I'd replace the m/b first if part of it is scorched. Mind you, that will mean a gfx replacement anyway unless you can track down a motherboard with an AGP port.


M