#1
12th Jul 2016 at 10:04 PM
Is my graphics card the problem?
I just bought a refurbished HP Compaq DC5850 with Windows 7 Professional. It seems to run okay for word processing and online, but is continually crashing after just a few minutes of TS2. I finally managed to locate the graphics card information, which says it has an ATI Radeon 3100. Double Deluxe specifies ATI Radeon 8500 or higher, so am I right in assuming that a 3100 is a lower grade card and does not meet the specs? (That seems logical, but I never know if regular logic applies to computers!)
Some of the BSoD error codes have been d1, fe, and 34. I also had a 5-beep error (I think it was five, but I didn't know at the time that the number of beeps was a code, and of course it hasn't done it since!), and other times it just bluescreens without explanation.
If the problem is just a low-end graphics card, I'll get a new one, but I don't want to open it up unless I'm sure, in case the machine is actually faulty and I invalidate the warranty.