ATI Video Card suddenly works

Hello..

I have an ATI Radeon 7000 VE dual display video card (32MB) in my
system. For years I've had problems with this card in my computer..the
display would become garbled, the monitor would consistently "lose
signal" with the graphics card, only to gain it a couple of seconds
later. The problem seemed to be resolved a few years ago when I booted
off of my smaller 2GB HD with Win XP already installed, instead of
booting on my larger 40gb. Now the problem reappeared about a month
ago.

Another strange thing happened more recently when Windows XP could not
copy files to my hard drive during installation, even when I replaced
it with a newer 200GB HD. So I investigated further...I replaced my
256 MB DDR Micron memory with some 256 MB DDR Kingston and all my
problems appear to be solved.

My question is could my bad Micron memory have been causing my graphics
card to malfunction? I bought a new card to replace it, but if it
turns out that memory is the culprit, I might sell that new graphics
card.

Andy

The video card driver and motherboard chipset drivers reside in system RAM,
as do all the Windows graphics elements like icons and wallpapers. Bad RAM
(or *badly-seated* RAM) can definitely cause garbled video or signal loss.

Normally, Micron RAM is supposed to be reliable. Are these Micron/Crucial
branded sticks, or just generic sticks with Micron chips?

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<maverick791.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello..
>
> I have an ATI Radeon 7000 VE dual display video card (32MB) in my
> system. For years I've had problems with this card in my computer..the
> display would become garbled, the monitor would consistently "lose
> signal" with the graphics card, only to gain it a couple of seconds
> later. The problem seemed to be resolved a few years ago when I booted
> off of my smaller 2GB HD with Win XP already installed, instead of
> booting on my larger 40gb. Now the problem reappeared about a month
> ago.
>
> Another strange thing happened more recently when Windows XP could not
> copy files to my hard drive during installation, even when I replaced
> it with a newer 200GB HD. So I investigated further...I replaced my
> 256 MB DDR Micron memory with some 256 MB DDR Kingston and all my
> problems appear to be solved.
>
> My question is could my bad Micron memory have been causing my graphics
> card to malfunction? I bought a new card to replace it, but if it
> turns out that memory is the culprit, I might sell that new graphics
> card.
>
> Andy
>