My rig may have died

[[XC] 2long4u]

I have an AMD 2500 mobile on an asus A7N8X-E deluxe. I just switched my video card from a nvidia 7900gts to a X800GTO. Thats when the problems started. I couldn't get any drivers to work properly. Portal says d3d failed to load. Now my computer is slow as hell. It is not just limited to windows. I ran ubuntu off a cd, and that is slow too. It is not just slow. I can boot into windows and load the task manager. There is nothing taking up any resources but applications crawl. Could all the problems be coming from the video card?:confused:

[Jakalwarrior]

You try a different video card?

[informal]

I have an AMD 2500 mobile on an asus A7N8X-E deluxe. I just switched my video card from a nvidia 7900gts to a X800GTO. Thats when the problems started. I couldn't get any drivers to work properly. Portal says d3d failed to load. Now my computer is slow as hell. It is not just limited to windows. I ran ubuntu off a cd, and that is slow too. It is not just slow. I can boot into windows and load the task manager. There is nothing taking up any resources but applications crawl. Could all the problems be coming from the video card?:confused:

Can you try your PC with some other video card,PCI ,like old S3 Virge?

[nick2crete]

Can you roll back to 7900gts..? good luck man!

[STEvil]

uninstall Catalyst Control Center if you have it installed.

ATi Tray Tools will control pretty much everything.

Do you have mIRC running? It can cause Half-Life 2 games to crash.

[[XC] 2long4u]

No mIRC, the 7900 was on loan from a friend. I put in my old 9800pro but with that card the screens don't power on. The 9800 may be junk, my mother inlaw's boyfriend dropped it. I have another 9800 pro and a 9000 pro but I will have to find them. I can't uninstall anthing right now. Just opening the start menu takes 5min.

[xVeinx]

No mIRC, the 7900 was on loan from a friend. I put in my old 9800pro but with that card the screens don't power on. The 9800 may be junk, my mother inlaw's boyfriend dropped it. I have another 9800 pro and a 9000 pro but I will have to find them. I can't uninstall anthing right now. Just opening the start menu takes 5min.

This is also a common issue with one of two things: the hard drive controller on the motherboard going bad, in which case it will eventually just die, or the hard drive starting to fail. If it is possible to boot while enabling the SMART tech in the bios (assuming it is in the bios for your mb), then you can see if a message pops up regarding the HD...

[[XC] 2long4u]

Come to think of it. I booted ubuntu to format the secondary drive and reset the partition. The attempt failed. I would have used a windows based partition tool (partition magic) but the evaluation version doesn't make changes. I would just format the partition but then I would be missing the other 116 gigs.

[Terwin]

I have an AMD 2500 mobile on an asus A7N8X-E deluxe. I just switched my video card from a nvidia 7900gts to a X800GTO. Thats when the problems started. I couldn't get any drivers to work properly. Portal says d3d failed to load. Now my computer is slow as hell. It is not just limited to windows. I ran ubuntu off a cd, and that is slow too. It is not just slow. I can boot into windows and load the task manager. There is nothing taking up any resources but applications crawl. Could all the problems be coming from the video card?:confused:

Sounds to me like you did not properly uninstall the nVidia drivers before you installed ATI drivers and the video drivers are all foobared. Uninstall both, then install the ATI drivers. A computer can "crawl" when video drivers are not loaded correctly.

[[XC] 2long4u]

I uninstalled everything nvidia. Funny because my mobo has a nvidia chipset. Oops. I had to reinstall all mobo drivers also.