MY SYSTEM CAME WITH RADEON X300, I UNISTALL ALL THE DRIVERS THAT CAME WITH. I ALSO WENT TO ATI HOME PAGE TO GET THE MOST UPDATED DRIVERS FOR THIS CARD.

 

BUT STILL DONT KNOW WHY, I'M HAVING SO MUCH TROUBLE WITH THIS CARD. ONE MORE THING. 2 WEEKS AFTER I STARTED HAVING PROBLEMS, I HAD TO RESTORE MY SYSTEM BECAUSE I COULDN'T EVEN START MY COMPUTER. SPOKE WITH DELL TECH REP. AND HE HAD ME RESTORE MY OPERATING SYSTEM.

 

THE ONLY REASON I GOT THIS CARD WAS BECAUSE IT WAS THE LAST ONE AND IT WAS  50 BUCKS.

What video card did you have in your system prior to this install  ?  Did you do a complete uninstall of the old driver, than download a more current ati driver to install for this new card  ? 

 

X700 is kind of low end for that system you have.  You might want to consider something else, if you want to.  Let us know

I THINK YOU MIGHT BE RIGHT, THE CARD COULD GONE BAD, BECAUSE AFTER I RESTORED MY OS I WAS STILL HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM WITH GRAPHICS CARD, SO THE TECH REP SUGGESTED RE-INSTALL THE OLD GRAPHIC CARD AND EVERYTHING STARTED WORKING FINE AGAIN. I ALSO ASKED HIM IF HE WOULD RECOMMEND CARD FOR MY COMPUTER. HE SUGGESTED THE VISIONTEK X1300 PCIE.

 

THANKS FOR ALL YOU HELP.

I had two ati cards for my system, and returned them within days since they gave me problems.  I installed instead the nVidia card, and never had an issue.  Maybe just a bad card, but not 100% sure. 

 

Cannot say for sure what the problem was for those cards.  Sometimes its a problem caused by the owner not knowing the proper procedure, the card going bad or the Dell system is not compatible for that card.  If you properly and firmly seated the card into the slot after uninstalling the old driver and card, than it should boot up without problems, but if it failed to work properly, than it just might be a card going bad. 

 

Try a nVidia card if possible.  It will cost more for a good one, but those two cards ( X300 and X700 ) are not really for gaming, if that is what you wanted to do.  Least I would get would be a 6600 GT PCI-Express slot card, but it will cost you more than $50. 

 

Good luck to you which ever decision you make

X1300 us also lower end.  You might want to consider something better if you are going to game.  If not, thant he x1300 would be OK. 

I ran an X700 pro in my 8400 until I upgraded to an e510.  I pulled it and am now running it in the e510.  I have not encountered the problems that you describe.  I suspect you may have a bad card as mentioned by other posters.  Like them, I am considering switching to an nvidia based card early next year.

 

Good luck resolving your problem.

 

Wayne

 

Dimension e510
940 3.2 Ghz Processor
1 GB 533 Mhz Ram
250 GB SATA 3.0 Hard Drive
Sony DRU-810 DVD +/- RW
DVD/CDRW Drive
x700 Radeon Pro 256Mb DDR3
2007 WFP Monitor

Inspiron 6000
Centrino P4-740
512 Mb RAM
60 GB HD
8X DVD +/- RW Drive

Thanks of the suggestion man really appericate. I was on the phone with dells tech support, and he suggestion I should buy a geforce 7300 or 7600.

 

So I might go to COMPUSA today and look some of these card, because they are having a sale on PNY 7300GS 256 MB PCIE