geforce 5700 ultra probs

Zong

I just bought the geforce 5700u from newegg.com. I run one crt monitor (monitor 1) and one lcd monitort (monitor 2). This setup ran fine on my old card never had one problem, so of corse the new card has major probs. I thought it had something to do with the power supply so i got a new one. That was not the prob so now i come here asking for help. Heres the deal, it seems to be only in games, I will be playing then all the sudden monitor 1 goes blank and it does the power off self test. while that happens monitor 2 goes wack the screen looks kind of like what nintendo games did when the game did not read right. I think this might be cuz of the hurtz setting on monitor 1 is 85 and monitor 2 can only handle up to 75 hurtz (meaning i think the settings from monitor 1 try to go to monitor 2 and screws it up just a guess though). After monitor 1 goes blank the only thing i can do is hit the reset button. Is this a bad card should i try to rma it. o yea here is my system......500watt psu, amdxp 1800, gigabyte ga-7vrxp (4x agp card is 8x), 768megs of ram. thanks for any help.

Yallrun

Have you tried running a single monitor in different mhz and DPI to see if it will do the same thing? And make sure the card is not overheating, that will shut a monitor down and or lock your system up.

Let me know what you find out, I plan on going back to nvidia with the same card.

Yallrun

Son_of_Thunder

the whole "nintendo" looking stuff sounds like major artifacts/a video glitch. i'd say the problem rests w/ your video card rather than the hz settings. like yallrun said, check to see if it's overheating. also try adjusting agp speed settings and running drivercleaner. if you had a radeon before this, drivercleaner could be the tool you need to fix it.

Wiredzero

Ya know...I used to have that problem when I used Windows ME Oh so long ago.. For some reason, ME wouldn't register when I was playing a game...and it'd try to enter power save mode, or hibernation while playing a game. Eventually I just turned off all that powersaving crud as well as ME's Hibernation feature. I suppose that could be happenning here. As stupid as it sounds, It COULD be your answer.

Zong

well i ran the driver cleaner.....the card is not overheating....after i reboot i get a serious windows system error, says something about faultrep.dll, i tried to look this up but the only place i could find an answer want to to pay money. I have tried to run the monitors at a diff hurtz that didnt work either.....bout the only thing i have not done is try one monitor but if i have to do that i dont want this card. thanks for help

Zong

update....it crashes with one monitor too.