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Hey guys, I'm new here. A few weeks ago I purchased a video card from ebay...nVidia Geforce FX5500 AGP/8x. Installing the card into my system was tough but I got through to making it work. I got to install the driver with the cd it came with, and I even got to use the nVidia control panel and everything.

But when I tried to play any of my games, the computer would freeze or restart when I start it up. I tried all of my games (5 games) so i doubt its the games and most of them r compatible with FX series.

Right now I'm not using the card just the integrated card that came with the computer, which doesn't work with 3/5 of my games. But I really wan't to use this card, because I already bought another card earlier that was for PCI-E which I don't have so I wasted $50 on that, and I spent $45 on this 1. So can any of you guys help me? I'm really lost and desperate right now.

Btw...my computer is an HP Pavilion a420n, Windows XP SP2.

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Hello,I'm a regular user of E-Bay and have been ripped off a couple of times ,was the video card, new or used ,if used, you just found out the reason the seller sold the video card .
Also i would go to the nvida site and get the latest drivers for it and install them next.new ones out this month here is link .just pick the fx series in product series box

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

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_163.75.html

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hmmm...I don't think it's used, it would have said that somewhere when I bought it.

And I already downloaded the latest driver when I was using the card.

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weird

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Hi

It might seem really simple but do you have enough RAM on your PC to support the additional video card as these cards do require a lot of memory to work on graphics for the games. It may be the reason that you may not have enough memory to support this card. in that case you might have to dish out a bit more to get extra ram for ur pc mate.

Good luck

Raj

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