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Please help me with a video card issue (April 2011) Now resolved

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cranioscopical:
Thanks!

@nudone; good thought, there's no extra power connection on this card
@fodder; I'll check the PSU

cmpm:
I would reset the bios to setup or standard defaults.
Then, if you can get online, update the drivers from Nvidia.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Try option 2 with IE first.
Firefox and that site don't play well together.
For me anyways.

Here's option 1 results for that card and XP.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-266.58-whql-driver.html

Or use another computer to download the correct drivers.

cmpm:
hm, another thought....

Computer - 256 Meg DDR2 SDRAM
Card - PCI Express 2.0 support and 1 Gig DDR3 SDRAM

Will that work?
DDR2 for the computer and DDR3 for the card?

f0dder:
Yeah, no problem there cmpm - the memory on a discrete GPU is separate from the main memory.

cranioscopical:
Thanks for the further thoughts!

The problem card's in an Antec case with a 430W PSU. There are 2 HDDs and a CD-ROM and that's about it for power draw. That ought to be enough ought it not?

Meanwhile, I've ordered an el-cheapo 256Mb DDR2 replacement card and my next step, when that arrives, will be to try that in the machine and see what transpires.

I notice the software that comes with the card to adjust its clock speed etc. doesn't affect anything, so I'm beginning to wonder if this individual ZOTAC card is flaky. Seems unlikely but stranger things have happened to me.

@cmpm; good idea about the drivers, thanks for the link. As it happens, I'd updated to 266.58 almost immediately after installing the card.

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