hi guys i have a asus p5vdc motherboard with VIA chipset 3.0 Ghz Pentium 4 Processor 1 GB DDR2 RAM 512 MB Nvidia Geforce2 AGP Graphics Card Creative Sound Blaster 5.1 sound Card 500 GB Seagate SATA Drive DVD 16X R/w The problem i have been facing for a long long time has been that during Booting, the PC starts showing blank(Black) screen...this happens when XP logo comes and u are about to get the blue screen where u put in login id and password this started to happen when i started using programmes which use good amount of memory like AutoGK ripping, or CRYSIS game.. it hangs and when i restart , i cannot get to the blue screen so i have stopped using memory intensive software... now a different problem has arisen as soon as i turn my PC on, the first screen of BIOS comes, and it gets stuck at this place doesn't move a inch forward pressing 'delete', F1 or anything else doesn't help i tried removing graphics card, change CPU fan, removed sound card, unplug-plugged all cables again, removed and again put the 2 RAM sticks.. nothing helped.. so i finally removed SATA cables... i was able to get into BIOS then i tried using IDE hard disk... BIOS detects IDE Hard Disk and DVD rom, once in every 3-4 tries... now somehow i have managed to install XP in IDE but i tried using SATA again.. and it still gets stuck at BIOS page I have lot of data saved on SATA drive now ...does anyone know, how can i get out of this problem..(don't say funny things like throw MB, kick processor etc..:-( ] this motherboard BTW earlier used to give problem too...as soon as u switch on,,CPU fan starts running and stops within 5 seconds.. i tried putting foam in between the MB and Cabinet.. it has stopped the occurrence of this problem to 90% times..
I'm not really sure what to make of your hardware specs, as there is no such thing as a 512MB Geforce 2, and the Geforce 2 wouldn't even install Crysis, let alone run it. This sounds like a faulty component, but it's not easy to tell what. it could be a faulty graphics card, motherboard, RAM or power supply. I would try changing the RAM first as it's the easiest to test.
Could also be faulty onboard harddrive controller (think its on the south bridge) May be worth your whilst getting a PCI SATA/IDE card. With those specs, would highly doubt crysis would run in a playable way. I had probs with a Geforce 6800 and a AMD x2! Would recommend a new PC
get rid of the foam as not supposed to be there between motherboard & backplane. try clearing the cmos to see what happens which i don't think it will work. are the ide drives jumpered same or different as sounds like possible conflict? sata controller might be going bye bye as had similar issue with a customer's till i replaced sata hd with ide hd.
i dont exactly remember the model of graphics(will see when i go to home)...probably 7300gt, AGP, 256 mb and probably overclocked to 512 but leaving that as it is the condition now is this.. the IDE has also started giving problems... the OS doesnt move from windows XP screen to login/pswrd screen.. it hangs at the small duration of transition , when the screen is blank..and the screen remains blank (black) forever i was checking hardware monitor..and the 3.3V was running at 2.866 something... is this also an issue...(whilst all other voltage like core etc were perfect) so at this moment i am stuck with nothing but a faulty PC.. just want to make it sure that nothin can be done??? the only hitch i am having disposing it off is..the graphics card i had bought is still completely new and i wont get any new MB which has AGP slot.. can anyone suggest any idea on how to make board work...
Then a faulty power supply is definitely part of the problem, have it replaced, preferably not with a cheap tacky unit either, cheap PSUs can cause severe problems.
read this on how to overclock graphics card http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/overclock-graphics-card,1916.html http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/overclock-graphics-card-minutes,1731.html
brother , i aint that good a techie.. so have asked a question a techie who sold me card ..said that G.Card all coming now (at that time) are 256.. what companies do ...is they overclock it and sell it by saying that it is 512 MB..in fact it is still 256 MB so i took it as it is.. clear me on this.. now on i will quote whatever u will tell me anyways .thanks a lot.. i m planning to try other PSU this sturday.. if it doesn't work then new PC is coming (wow).. this is config.... tell me if its ok? processor - i5-750 2.66 GHz p55 chipset 4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz RAM 1 GB Nvidia Geforce GT220 500 GB SATA thnks again
It is impossible to um.. overclock to add more RAM? That's like saying you downloaded more RAM. It's not possible.
Narwal: Then whoever you spoke to is an idiot. Put simply, overclocking increases the MHZ of something (clock speed). This effectively decides how fast it works. The MB on a graphics card is the memory, i.e. how much it can do at once. Unless you run out of graphics memory, having more doesn't make any difference to performance. You can overclock mhz as that is simply like turning the speed up, but you can't 'overclock' memory, as that's a bit like trying to overclock a 32" TV into a 50" TV - it's something that physically isn't there. Graphicsc cards that come with say, 512MB or 1GB of RAM, have exactly that, 512MB or 1GB. That's not an overclock, it's just how much memory they have. For the record, the i5 750 is a good CPU, but the GT220 is one of the worst graphics cards ever made, it can't play any games because it's just too slow.
thanks a lot brother.. now i got it... so if gt220 isnt good.. then which graphics card should i buy... (assuming p55 express chip set with i5 750 .=2.66 Ghz processor is good) just one thing .. it shouldn't be way too costly..
and ya .. my requirement is that graphics card shd be below 150$ (below 100$ is more better ) and should be compatible with my board till now i was planning to buy it from Dell.. now i rethinking to assemble it it would be great help if you tell me the configuration like which motherboard i should buy for p55 chipset so u guys pls tell me apart from p55 chipset and core i5 750 what all things i shd buy to make a good PC...
