GeForce3 TI 500 crashes

[Guest_imported]

I've been using my card for almost 5 months, with no real problems. Recently I had to reformat my hard drive due to various corruptions. After reinstalling everything, I am unable to play certain games without fatal crashes; games I played through fine before the reformat. Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Serious Sam to be specific. I am able to play for a few minutes sometimes, then the whole system freezes and i have to restart my machine.
XP is claiming my video card is the problem

currently running on WinXP, though win98 gives the same problem.
Asus a7v266-E via kt266a ddr motherboard
NVIDIA GeForce3 TI-500

i've installed all the latest drivers i can think of to no avail. tried 16 and 32 bit colors. tried running the games on different resolutions. nothing is helping.

 

[Guest_imported]

ok, nm. i just did some checking and my fan on the video card is not running. but now i have a new problem. the fan wire doesn't reach anyplace on my motherboard. I guess i'll have to try and find an extension or something

 

[paparazi]

The graphics card fan usually gets it's power from a connector on the graphics card and not the motherboard?
I know some use the new AGP PRO slot for power?
You have definately found your problem either way. Martin Just trying to help, sometimes falling short, I am only human after all.