Usual video card problems...

[t_blake07]

I'm having issues with a PNY GeForce GT 220 1GB GPU i'm trying to install. The card is seated properly. I installed it and then turned the PC back on and everything was fine, other than the resolution. So I inserted the Driver CD and installed the driver from it. It asked to restart so I agreed. It wouldn't shut down properly and a blue screen popped up saying something about memory dump. It's hard to read because it only stays on screen for about 3 seconds.

So I restart in safe mode with networking, and download the newest driver and install it. Same result as above. When I first installed the card and booted, Windows tried to find and install drivers with no success. I've also disabled my AV program in the startup menu and turned off Windows Firewall, that doesn't help either.

Windows Vista 32bit
Dell (Foxconn) G33M02 MoBo
Intel E5400 GPU
3GB DDR2 667MHz RAM
WD Caviar 80GB HDD

[Geek-9pm]

Many people heare a re ready yo help you.

 But first
What video card did you have before?
Did you really do the install the way they said to do it?

Does the manual say the you must set the VGA back to plain VGA first, before you power down remove the old card?

Many hardware devices, especially graphics cards, are very picky, picky sabot the exact sequence of things  you do with the installation.

If you mess up the system, you may have to put the old card back in and reboot in last good configuration.

So, did you put the old card in and get back to good configuration in safe mode?

[patio]

New machine or is this Mum's upgrade ? ?
Brand new card ? ?

[t_blake07]

Yeah it's my mother's upgrade. And a brand new card from newegg.

@ Geek-9pm, The system didn't have a video card prior to the one i'm trying to install. Just Intel's Graphic Accelerator/onboard video.

It seems that the driver is conflicting with something, because I can uninstall the driver and not have the issues i've stated above. Only problem is the resolution isn't right and I can't adjust it without the driver being installed.

[patio]

What's the PSU rated at ? ?

[t_blake07]

Well its 585W. +12V @ 20A, and +12 @ 19A. But the card doesn't plug into the PSU.

[t_blake07]

I can get into Windows through safe mode, but I can't "Start Windows Normally". At least not with the driver for the card installed. I don't know what that means.

[cruisin702]

Dell community recommended Driver install instructions

[t_blake07]

Dell community recommended Driver install instructions

So far I haven't had to do any of that. I installed the latest Nvidia driver and after installing and uninstalling over and over I finally thought about the RAM. That seems to have been the issue.