Video Card? or Motherboard?

I just purchased 3 new parts for my computer:

An ASUS A7V8X-X MOBO, PNY geforce4 ti4600, 512 MB 333mHz KINGSTON DDR RAM

Everything seems to work fine...until a certain point where my monitor will just shut down into standby mode and the computer pretty much freezes (or will restart on its own)

Then during reboot, the display colors are all messed up.

I pop in my own video card (geforce4 mx440) and everything seems to work fine again.

I have the latest video drivers, directx 8.1 (I don't think I need 9.0a because the ti4600 is only 4x).

Is it my video card or motherboard that might be busted?

 

Ok here's the problem...everything good when my geforcemx440 is in....

I "ll put in the geforce4 TI4600...XP will automatically load the driver...everything good for a few mins...then it will just crash...

I cant' get back into windows...only in safe mode.

I switch video cards back..all is good.

Could this be an incompatibility issue with my motherboard and video card?

Here is the error message when my old video card is in and xp boots:


"The display driver for NVIDIA Geforce4 Ti 4600 seems to be responsible for the system instability. The driver for the display device was unable to complete a drawing operation.

send error report/don't send

 

Are you using the XP drivers or the GForce drivers? If XP, install, the drivers that came with your card. Also, can you bump your AGP voltage up a bit? Lastly, have you installed DirectX 9.0 yet?

 

At first...XP drivers were automatically installed.
That was the first time around before I formatted because I couldnt even get as far as installing the detonator drivers, the computer would just lock up and it would never be able to get back into windows.

Second time around (after 2nd format)...I actually made it around to installing the latest detonator drivers, I was able to browse the net a bit...play a game for about 30 mins...then it would just crash again, and you guessed it, couldn't get back into XP.

I'm about 50% sure that the problem was in the BIOS...because the instant I put the vid card in...I would start getting these problems, when switching back to the old one...NO problems at all. I tweaked the UC/USWC function in BIOS to UC(uncached)...and switched that option off in my display properties
in XP. So far so good...no crashes yet...if I can make it past an hour of usage without getting the vertical yellow lines down my display...I think I may have solved my own problem.

Rockster: How would I bump my AGP voltage? In the manual for the motherboard, it says to use 1.5V AGP video cards.

 

Should be a bios setting for AGP voltage unless you are using auto settings. You'll also find core voltage and I/O voltage. Quite often, a slight bump (like to 1.6) will resolve this kind of a problem without causing any ill effects. If you wanted to overclock your memory, you could go quite a bit higher but this will add heat to both the component itself (in this case memory) and the system.