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Vista dual booting XP, doesn't read video card
So I recently partitioned my Hitachi HDD to have 30gb for vista and the rest of the space for files and XP It runs fine. Earlier, I installed 2gb Patriot RAM 9200, I had 2gb of the same already installed, I had to remove my EVGA 8800 ultra superclocked @ 768mb to fit it in because it was blocking the slots, I then put it back in. (I installed vista after this) When I start running it, I go to see my system performance rating, 5.9,5.6,1,1,5.9, So i'm thinking, what the heck? (I have ones in gaming performance/aero performance) I went into device manager, and it says my display adapter is a "Standard VGA graphics adapter" with 14mb physical memory. When dual booting it also gave me the option to do a memory scan, it said there were errors that I would have to contact the company to discover. I went to play Crysis, (running on XP) because I didn't want to bust my vga adapter, it ran okay for a while, then randomly shutdown, I opened it up again, then it froze up and I had to restart manually, afterwards it repeated, I changed my display settings to medium, considering that it might be a power problem (The demo for the game on high ran fine and never crashed) So I ran it on medium, I got BSOD, I uninstalled Vista and merged the partitions, made a new one, and just reinstalled it. I'm having the same problems. Earlier this year I had to replace my mushkin RAM because it quit working. So - I'm thinking either I messed up my video card? (I have a IPR warranty on my entire computer so no worries), Or my MOBO keeps failharding all my RAM and I need that replaced. Thanks lots. -- Munichith ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Munichith's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=38199 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=878244 http://forums.techarena.in |