9700 Causing Problems

[Alaron]

I just installed my Powercolor 9700Pro, and it seems to be causing some problems on my system. It has slowed down dramatically, taking a few seconds to even open Instant Messenger. I am going to defrag and hope that helps, but it seems the new video card is the culprit. Is there anything I can do? Could the power supply, 300w Heroichi, not be giving my system the juice it needs, because of the new card? Also, I have run DxDiag, and I passed all tests (9.0a), and have run a virus scan.

EDIT: I updated my drivers to the new Catalyst 3.4s and it seems to have fixed the problem. No more slowdowns. :)

[MonkeyBlitch]

Good to hear you fixed the problem. Enjoy that card!

[Brown Hornet]

just got a powercolor 9700 non pro worked fine for 2 days now when i play bf1942 the smoke fx are rippled and have a purple and green color.where as before with my old geforce 4 mx 440 the smoke fx were smooth and not discolored.i still post 13450 on 3d mark 01 and 4165 on 3d mark 03.i have checked settings on the game but nothing.all settings on the vid card are stock settings.and i have the latest 3.4 driver.i look forward to your help


almost forgot my new system is

a7n8x
xp 2400
40 g hd
512 corsair xms 3200
9700
phillips cdrw
liteon dvd