Nvidia Fx5200 Frequent Problem

[diagoh]

Hello guys;
Well the thing with this fx5200 cards are they suck at very large stage. Sorry for me being a nvidia fan but its the truth that fx cards [not all of them] stinks, and so do this card which i have sold to 1 of my customers its a

Inno3d Tornado Fx 5200 128mb 64bit Geforce Chip card which is as crap as it can be so you see the problem with this is that its running fine when you dont install any drivers i mean fine doesnt make it a good card so here

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/2968/weird1tk1.th.png (http://img396.imageshack.us/my.php?image=weird1tk1.png)

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/8427/weird2ny6.th.png (http://img517.imageshack.us/my.php?image=weird2ny6.png)

So as you see these are the pictures when you dont have any driver installed and you get these artifacts and if i install the drivers these artifacts are gone and the card works fine but again problem after 1 restarts it doesnt boot to windows and weird aitifact on window xp loading screens appears, but i can correct this issue to by just going into the bios and changing the primary display from agp to pci and in windows chaging the cpu to agp controller to pci to pci bus bridge and walla the artifacts are gone and the card works like a charm but i get a biggest problem the standby problem the moniter will work fine and the games will work fine but again the moniter goes to sleep and the computer freezes and i have to restart the whole system to catch a glimpse of windows xp and again the moniter goes to sleep and the pc freezes so i though i should get help from someone who is smart enought o figure it out and so i came here and really believe me i did everything i could but to no avail and i changed the driver from the newest to the oldest but nothing the problem exist ok now i will give you the pc specs

The pc is a

Intel® Desktop Board D845WN
Processor Intel® Genuine Pentium 4 Processor 2.26Ghz
1 Gb Of Ram
80 Seagate Baracuda
1 Cdrom
1 Dvdrw
300w psu with 3.3v+5v=140W and its amperage is 14A

I though to give you every info you need please if you could halp try to help me out and 1 more thing if you have any more question i will be glad to answer it and this card is old :) it has been used for over 1/4 years now and its still working and i even checked it on other pc which is a pentium 3 815e board and it worked good there without changing anything.

[newtekie1]

It sounds to me like the card is either overheating, or is dying.

[hat]

Time for a new card... but you cant do much with a 300w psu

[diagoh]

Time for a new card... but you cant do much with a 300w psu

Well as i said earlier that this card worked best on a p3 system the board of the p3 system was a intel desktop board 815e that as a agp port of 4x with 1.5 volt and the graphic card worked best on that p3 system but when i connect the card with this board its just not going anywhere and may i remind you that i have changed the psu from 300w to 400w which i think is too much for this card.

[CrackerJack]

is the card overclock, looks like the memory speed is alittle bit to high

[diagoh]

is the card overclock, looks like the memory speed is alittle bit to high

Well the card has never been overclocked it has the same core and memory speed as it was packed up by the company but still i checked the clock speed of core and memory with riva tuner and and the speed for core is 400mhz and the speed of memory is 325mhz if you know that whats the default setting then please let me know and one more thing is that i have even underclocked it with riva tuner even i got core speed to 200mhz and the memory to 150mhz but to no avial and the card doesnt overheat at all its like hot but not that hot.

So please any help appericiated

[CrackerJack]

Well the card has never been overclocked it has the same core and memory speed as it was packed up by the company but still i checked the clock speed of core and memory with riva tuner and and the speed for core is 400mhz and the speed of memory is 325mhz if you know that whats the default setting then please let me know and one more thing is that i have even underclocked it with riva tuner even i got core speed to 200mhz and the memory to 150mhz but to no avial and the card doesnt overheat at all its like hot but not that hot.

So please any help appericiated

this is your card right?

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/60/.html

this is the ultra
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/61/NVIDIA_FX_5200_Ultra.html

[hat]

Well as i said earlier that this card worked best on a p3 system the board of the p3 system was a intel desktop board 815e that as a agp port of 4x with 1.5 volt and the graphic card worked best on that p3 system but when i connect the card with this board its just not going anywhere and may i remind you that i have changed the psu from 300w to 400w which i think is too much for this card.

You can't overload your system with a power supply. You could connect that 2KW power supply to your system and it would work just fine (except your video card issue)

[erocker]

The card is toast. The reason it works on boards with lesser slots is because the card doesn't have to work as hard. Time for something else..

[mullered07]

, but i can correct this issue to by just going into the bios and changing the primary display from agp to pci and in windows chaging the cpu to agp controller to pci to pci bus bridge and walla the artifacts are gone and the card works like a charm but i get a biggest problem the standby problem the moniter will work fine and the games will work fine but again the moniter goes to sleep and the computer freezes and i have to restart the whole system to catch a glimpse of windows xp

just turn off power saving options so the computer doesnt go to sleep, not like that systems gonna eat a lot of juice at full load anyway, let alone if its idle, if this is the only way ur card works thats an option if getting a new card atm isnt

[diagoh]

this is your card right?

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/60/.html

this is the ultra
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/61/...200_Ultra.html

Well this is actually confusing well i am not a overclocker maybe the client did overclocked the card much more and thats the problem maybe but as i said this card ramdac is 400 mhz so how the value of the core and memory is so low its like riva tnt2 it doesnt have much than having a 128mb thats the difference between this and riva tnt2 nothing else its confusing though because

and as you can see this is the card and you can see the memory and core frequency which is high the one you specified is lower than the low setting for this card

http://www.inno3d.com/products/graphic_card/gf_fx/5200.htm.

this is my customer card i am talking about.

well i will try the card today with much less clock speed and with the old Detonator Drivers 43.74


hey guys can i ask maybe this is a uncompability between the card and the board what you think the card support 4x but doesnt go handy with some boards so give me some thoughts about it thanks see ya

[Exavier]

Time for a new card... but you cant do much with a 300w psu


I'm running a fx5200 in this Dell rig on a 200w, so it's not that.

[diagoh]

Thanks For all the help and advises guys the card is fine because i checked every thing in this card and in the board.

Well the problem was the board port it was damaged, how did i found that its because i fixed another fx5200 of the same company inno3d and it didnt work either and i tried another fx5200 but from a different company e-Vga card with the same memory and same bus speed and it didnt worked fine, it was even worse then the inno3d card so i returned the rig of the customer to him because it was not the card but the board which was the problem. So thanks once again