On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:54:38PM -0600, William Robb scripsit: [snip] > Anyway, I am starting to think that the card itself is at fault and so > am looking at replacing it.
You nigh-certainly have a hardware fault. It's very hard to tell from what you get on boot if the hardware fault is in the card or the motherboard. (If I had to bet, I'd say the card; the last couple rounds of Nvidia cards have been having high failure rates due to a bad choice of solder issue.) Ideally, try the card in a different computer before doing anything else, because if the motherboard is part of the problem, no amount of card finagling will fix anything and you'll wind up launching the works into a swamp in frustration. > My motherboard is an Asus M2N32 SLI Deluxe (Socket AM2) which is using > an Nvidea chipset, the present card is an Asus EN8600GTS (also > Nvidea). What I am wondering is, would there be any issues with > putting a Radeon graphics card onto the motherboard, and does anyone > have any odeas about how to cure this without replacing components? If there are issues with a Radeon card, they aren't fixable with that motherboard. That said, there shouldn't be any issues with a single card; you won't be able to run dual cards (the SLI vs Crossfire thing), but any single card should be OK. > Thanks for any advice (other than "buy a Mac"). Switch to Linux? :) -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
