Hi all,
I’m looking for some help.
I am currently running a Dell Dimension 8300 desktop (4 years old!)
I decided to try souping up the graphics.
The card is a Nvidia 7300 GT by PNY.
I also upgraded the PSU. However I have had alot of problems. I will list the steps I have taken –
First I ran the card with a new 350w CHEAP psu. This worked fine for 2-3 hours of gaming before the display corrupted and froze.
After this whenever I tried booting with the new card I would get slight glitches on the windows boot screens (some horizontal white lines/dots).
The PC would get to the windows login then display a bunch of black and white stripes.
I figured a high end PSU would fix this problem, so I invested in a 500w ‘Bluestorm II’.
I still get exactly the same errors on booting, the glitches are even in the same location on the screen every time. However I am now able to login to windows;
…only now wherever I move the cursor tiny little red/grey lines appear, then the graphics will start to crash.
I have updated my graphics drivers and even the BIOS.
Is this most likely a hardware or software problem?
If it could be a driver problem, should I format the HDD?
I don’t think the card is damaged as it will display things ok for a while then starts to corrupt.
