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Dbilacho · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:43 pm Post subject: Hard Drive Issues

I purchased a HD 2600 XT PRO Radeon 512MB GDDR3 Graphics card,

Put it in my API Exoress slot, but found out my Power Supply won't cut it, so I'm getting a new one.

I started my computer up twice with the card before finding out about the power supply, and put my old card back in.

Now my harddrive is screwed and I have to reformat, which I'm doing.

[I'm on my second desktop]

Could putting in a new video card and the power supply not supporting it have anything to do with a harddrive screwover?

Madman · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:45 pm Post subject:

what does it say about the harddrive?

Dbilacho · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:46 pm Post subject:

It says like

'Windows has experienced problems starting up, a recent software/hardware change might have caused that, try last recent good settings/safe mode.'

I tried both, Windows XP Booting screen comes, Blue bar goes through once, then restart my computer, so I'm formatting it.

Madman · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:51 pm Post subject:

dunno... since your already formatting it, I'm not sure what you want to get out of this thread.

Dbilacho · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:52 pm Post subject:

I want to know if the video card could have caused that.

My dad works for Microsoft and says no,
And I don't think it could have.

PSU should arrive on Monday or Wednesday, Tuesday being Christmas,

So I'm pretty excited Very Happy

190 GB Harddrive, 3 GHZ Processor, 2 GB RAM, and Dark XP V3 [modified XP]

Just gotta redownload like 10 games.. x,x

Madman · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:58 pm Post subject:

is the cpu dual core?

and i guess its possible, maybe the psu shorted out the hard drive, if your format fails at some % then thats probably the problem.

Dbilacho · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:58 pm Post subject:

I don't think so,
System info in Control Panel said 3.00Ghz, then 2.99 Ghz..

Dunno if that's dual core?

Madman · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:59 pm Post subject:

well is it an intel or amd proc?

Dbilacho · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:59 pm Post subject:

Intel. Pentium 4

Madman · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject:

k its single core.

Dbilacho · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:01 pm Post subject:

Is that good or bad for gaming?

Madman · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:02 pm Post subject:

if nothing else is running i guess its fine, but dual cores are pretty standard now a days.

Dbilacho · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:03 pm Post subject:

These are the specs of the new video card.

Features ATI CrossFire Ready

API Supported OpenGL 2.0, DirectX

DirectX Support DirectX 10

Graphics Processor ATi Radeon HD 2600 XT Graphics Processor

Core Clock Speed 800MHz Core Clock Speed

RAMDAC Clock Speed Dual 400MHz RAMDACs

Video Memory Installed 512MB GDDR3 Video Memory

Video Memory Clock Speed 700MHz Clock, 1400MHz Effective

Video Memory Bus 128-Bit

Video Memory Bandwidth 12.8GB per second

Stream Processors 120 Stream Processors

2D / 3D Features Microsoft DirectX 10 Shader Model 4.0 Support; Ring Bus Memory Controller; Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture (Double Sided Hierarchical Z-buffer/Stencil Buffer; Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1); Lossless color compression (up to 8:1); 8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support; Physics processing support; Early Z test, Re-Z, Z Range optimization, and Fast Z Clear; High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192); DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression; Fully associative multi-level texture cache design; Up to 128 textures per pixel; Up to 40 texture fetches per clock cycle; 128-bit floating point precision for all operations); Dynamic Geometry Acceleration (High performance vertex cache; Programmable tessellation unit); Multi-sample anti-aliasing (up to 8 samples per pixel); Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA); Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling; Temporal anti-aliasing; Gamma correct; Texture filtering features (2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel); 128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering)

Video Input/Output Xilleon TV Encoder (HDTV, S-Video, Composite)

Audio Playback 5.1 Channel Surround Sound (through HDMI adapter)

HDCP Support Dual-Link HDCP Capable (2560x1600)

Video Acceleration MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, H.264

Ports and Connectors (2) Dual-Link DVI Connectors; (1) Video Out Port (S-Video, Composite, HDTV)

Supported Windows Operating Systems Microsoft Windows XP, Media Center Edition, Vista

Interface Type PCI Express x16 Interface

Power Supply Requirements 350 Watt Power Supply

Peripheral Devices DVD-ROM/CD-ROM Drive

Software Included Drivers & Utilities

Cables Included (1) DVI to VGA Adapter, DVI to HDMI Adapter

Manufacturer Warranty Lifetime Limited Warranty

Madman · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:04 pm Post subject:

looks decent, how much was it?

Dbilacho · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:05 pm Post subject:

180, 50$ rebate which I'm going to send in soon, so technically 130.

Ordered from www.microcenter.com

It was at CompUSA for like, 400$...