new graphics card causing crashing??

[Atomic645]

Ug. I'm having a major problem, and I'm too clueless to fix this.

I recently bought a new graphics card (GEFORCE 4 TI4600) and all works well for a little bit, but then my computer starts crashing randomly, especially when I play games.

When it reboots, I get a message saying that there was some sort of problem, with something's drivers (the graphic card's, obviously, because it started doing this, the second I installed it)

Can anyone help? I really know next to nothing, about graphics cards, and drivers.

oh, and also, I did not get the CD, with this graphics card.

oh, and I am running:
Windows XP Home
Athlon XP 2600+
512 MB RAM
GEFORCE 4 TI4600

[Faustus]

First off make sure its the latest driver from nVidia.

If not use the system restore tool to roll back to before you installed the drivers then try the latest ones.

What size is your power supply? The TI4600 shouldn't be a huge power drain but it could be bigger then the old card.

If its the powersupply it will cause alot of random crashes havign to do with the video.

[Atomic645]

First off make sure its the latest driver from nVidia.

If not use the system restore tool to roll back to before you installed the drivers then try the latest ones.

What size is your power supply? The TI4600 shouldn't be a huge power drain but it could be bigger then the old card.

If its the powersupply it will cause alot of random crashes havign to do with the video.

I have rolled back. I used the latest drivers, but it keeps crashing, and the windows error report thing says it's something to do with drivers.

And as far as power stuff goes, I know nothing about my power. I suspected that it might be a power thing, but I didn't want to buy a bigger power supply, and find out it's not the power. If I was having a power problem, would the windows error report thing still say that theres a problem with the drivers?

Also, I'm not sure if I'm using the right drivers, or anything. ackack.

[Faustus]

No if its power and the video card it may indeed look like a video card hardware or software issue. Find someplace with a good return policy and get a good brand (Antec, Enermax) PSU from them. Test your system out with it then just return it.

It sucks but at least that way your not out any money if its not it. If it is the powersupply find one cheaper online or from a store with better prices and a bad return policy.

Or if there is a Fry's in your area go there, they ususally have both teh better local prices and the liberal return policy.