ATI connect 3d radeon 9250se compatible with Dell Dimension 4100 or no

[Yammichi]

I have a Dell Dimension 4100 866 mhz system with 256mb ram, I recently bought a Ati connect 3d radeon 9250se 128mb video card, and have had nothing but problems with it, I have taken it back to the vendor, he performed the stress tests, and ran it in another system with no problems, originally what would happen was I would play a game then it would boot me to windows and give me the vpu reovery error, then I updated...well....everything really, the video drivers, the bios, even the chipset drivers, still didn't help, then I went back to the catalyst 3.9 drivers instead of the up to date drivers, it worked for a while but then it started again, I then lowered my agp speed setting in catalyst from 4x down to 1x, now all that happens is after a while the computer will lock up or reboot during a game, and sometimes even at random times like just surfing the net, is their a compatibility issue between the Dimension 4100 and the radeon 9250se, or is my agp slot fried or something. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Krosus]

Sounds like you actually have a Power supply problem to me, dell machines get a genreric PSU with enough power for the specific machine, when you start stressing it out with items drawing a lot of power the rails will become unstable.
The other option is RAM, it is possible to run the machine and never crash with faulty ram *until* you really stress the computer with a game.
Id suggest first of all see if you got a spare PSU if not buy a decent psu 350watt rating and try it out, if it doesnt work then take it back if it does problem solved.
Secondly with ram if you have 2 ram sticks remove one then try the program and then remove the other then try see if it still happens.

 

[Yammichi]

Thanx Krosus, I Doubt it's my ram though I was using 1 256 pc 133 ram stick and switched to 2 128 pc 133 ram sticks and still the same issue, but thanx, I'll try getting a new PSU.