PC Slow after graphics card installation

[robertwj]

I am working on a friends computer. it is a pre-built acer aspire sa90.
Specs here :http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/desktop/0000/Acer/AspireSA90/AspireSA90sp2.shtml

However this one has a Intel Pentium D, 3.6GHz, and 1gb of RAM.

Now, i took off vista a few years ago & put XP on. my friend has recently upgraded by purchasing a graphics card NVIDIA G210
Specs here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_210_us.html

Once the card is plugged in it works fine but as soon as i load the drivers it just takes forever to start up and it is so slow that it is not workable.

The power supply is a 450watt so it can handle all the hardware. I am thinking that maybe the motherboard cant handle the card since it is a very basic home built computer?

Suggestions?

 

[Zyraz]

I am working on a friends computer. it is a pre-built acer aspire sa90.
Specs here :http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/desktop/0000/Acer/AspireSA90/AspireSA90sp2.shtml

However this one has a Intel Pentium D, up to 3.6GHz, and 1gb of RAM.

Now, i took off vista a few years ago and now my friend has upgraded by purchasing a graphics card NVIDIA G210
Specs here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_210_us.html

Once the card is plugged in it works fine but as soon as i load the drivers it just takes forever to start up and it is so slow that it is not workable.

The power supply is a 450watt so it can handle all the hardware. I am thinking that maybe the motherboard cant handle the card since it is a very basic home built computer?

Suggestions?

Did you download and install the latest drivers ?
From the chipset manufacture (aka nVidia) or from vendor (MSI , Saphire, Asus etc ) ?
Have you tried the driver from the CD that shipped with the card ?

All your motherboard drivers installed , chipset etc ?

BIOS update ?

GPU fan spinning ?
Temp ?

 

[Pada]

The 450W should be more than enough, even if it can only deliver like 200W.

I would suggest that you run like Process Explorer (from SysInternals) to check for high CPU usage, out of memory (RAM) problems and high hard disc usage.

Windows XP is famous for switching off DMA and using PIO mode instead, which will slow down the PC dramatically. The DMA & PIO modes are 2 ways of interfacing the IDE hard drives & CD-ROM drives. When Windows XP switches to PIO mode, you'll notice in Process Explorer that the Interrupts would have a very high CPU usage for any small activity on your hard drive/CD-ROM drive.

It would also be useful to install HWMonitor (from CPUID) to ensure that all your system temperatures are OK. Any temperature below 80'C is usually OK, but you'd preferably want temperatures below 60'C.

 

[robertwj]

Yes i have tried the latest NVIDIA drivers off the site as well as the drivers on the cd shipped with the card.
All drivers are installed, i have not done a bios update but the system temp is about 35c so it is not too bad.

Did you download and install the latest drivers ?
From the chipset manufacture (aka nVidia) or from vendor (MSI , Saphire, Asus etc ) ?
Have you tried the driver from the CD that shipped with the card ?

All your motherboard drivers installed , chipset etc ?

BIOS update ?

GPU fan spinning ?
Temp ?

 

[Zyraz]

Yes i have tried the latest NVIDIA drivers off the site as well as the drivers on the cd shipped with the card.
All drivers are installed, i have not done a bios update but the system temp is about 35c so it is not too bad.

What happens when you put the graphics card in another pc ?