this n00b again

i think not. when i had my 7900gt it worked fine.

+ if i buy a new mobo i will want to build a new system, i'd rather avoid that.

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kurei

were u able to boot after taking out the 4850 and switching to onboard gfx...? are you getting any beeps during post...?

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Errrm. Get the earthwatts. Go crazy.

And give me your 4850 i will test it in my machine for you

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Kurei, I believe everything worked fine until he switched to a 4850. His 7xxx series video card worked perfectly without the shutdown problems.

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kurei

i hear that... but just to test.... its not that ulikely that he might have messed something up while plugging in the card.... i know someone who was installing a card and managed to bend a mobo capacitor so much that it was shorted...

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Does Vista have some Event Viewer like in XP?

Also, you said you ran Driver Cleaner... but have you choose to remove both Nvidia and Ati/AMD drivers?

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this n00b again

well i ordered an antec 550 watt modular PSu since it was a good deal and backup psu was needed.

tried it out in the machine and yet with another 90 watts, it still does the same thing. i think it's safe to say the PSU is not the problem here.

event viewer?

i removed the Nvidia display driver.

i did not remove the chipset driver, as my chipset is nvidia.

but just in case that was the case i gave it a try, and downloaded the latest drivers and reinstalled. still no fix.

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Vista's Event Viewer.
Does that show any problem in you system related with you card (either Applications or System)?

You could try that...
* Uninstall the current driver.
* Boot in safe mode.
* Uninstall all leftovers from Nvidia and Ati/AMD video drivers.
* While in safe mode, reinstall the latest amd driver.

If that doesn't help, than it's not a driver issue.

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thlnk3r

This n00b again, crazy question here but do you happen to have another machine local that has a PCI-E slot that you could test this card in to see if the problem reproduces itself?

Good luck

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