[BNM] Graphics Card Problems

[Dave Child]

I bought myself a new graphics card and tried to hook it up yesterday. I  
uninstalled the drivers for the old card as instructed, swapped in the new  
card, and had problems:

1. When I booted the machine up, the first screen (the one with the  
graphics card logo on it, usually) was all messed up. It was unreadable.  
It looked like it was covered in hieroglyphics, but I could make out the  
"shape" of what was being displayed. I could see colour where the logo  
was, and see the screen changing as the PC detected drives etc.
2. It then booted to Windows, in 4 bit colour and low screen res. I  
installed the drivers and rebooted.
3. It got to the Windows "loading" screen (same thing happened with the  
screens before that - unreadable - but the windows one was readable, and  
in 4 bit colour again). After that, it went black and after a few more  
seconds got to a blue screen. The BSOD said there was a problem with  
nv4_disp.dll and that something had got stuck in an infinite loop. Not  
good.

I read around on the web and tried a few different things. Eventually, I  
uninstalled the card from safe mode and replaced the old one, and that  
still works.

A friend at work who is reasonably knowledgeable says it might be the PSU,  
which is 350W. I was wondering if this was likely to be causing it, or if  
there's something more serious wrong? Any help or advice anyone could  
offer would be great at this point.

Thanks
Dave

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