EVGA GeForce 8600 GT hanging - normally with video games

Lyellin · 01-23-2008, 07:38 PM

Hi all,

Hoping I can tap into people who know hardware a bit deeper than I Do. I recently burnt out my old video card, and bought a EVGA e-GeForce 8600GT to replace it. Installed it fine, computer booted up, no issues. Can run anything 2d fine, but when I try to boot up games (I've tried WoW and Supreme Commander), the system hangs completely - no reaction from anything, keyboard, mouse (seems like the monitor froze).

I am running Windows XP pro
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice
MSI K8N Neo4-F

I'm sure it's possible I did something stupid like buying a vid card that won't with my mobo, etc, but I haven't seen it yet. So if it's something like that, or if you have any suggustions on how to fix this, I'd love to hear them.

Tom

Lyellin · 01-23-2008, 08:20 PM

To give a bit more information:

I can operate fine, save for the video games. When I attempt to load WoW, it gives me a blue screen with lots of text VERY quickly, then restarts the computer.

On startup, it asks me to send a windows error report.

01-23-2008, 07:38 PM	#1 (permalink)
Lyellin Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2 OS: XP	EVGA GeForce 8600 GT hanging - normally with video games Hi all, Hoping I can tap into people who know hardware a bit deeper than I Do. I recently burnt out my old video card, and bought a EVGA e-GeForce 8600GT to replace it. Installed it fine, computer booted up, no issues. Can run anything 2d fine, but when I try to boot up games (I've tried WoW and Supreme Commander), the system hangs completely - no reaction from anything, keyboard, mouse (seems like the monitor froze). I am running Windows XP pro CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice MSI K8N Neo4-F I'm sure it's possible I did something stupid like buying a vid card that won't with my mobo, etc, but I haven't seen it yet. So if it's something like that, or if you have any suggustions on how to fix this, I'd love to hear them. Tom

01-23-2008, 08:20 PM	#2 (permalink)
Lyellin Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2 OS: XP	Re: EVGA GeForce 8600 GT hanging - normally with video games To give a bit more information: I can operate fine, save for the video games. When I attempt to load WoW, it gives me a blue screen with lots of text VERY quickly, then restarts the computer. On startup, it asks me to send a windows error report.