Dead-ish box
I've been having troubles with my xp box, I've mentioned it a couple of times. What it comes down to is the machine hangs consistently & the bsod/error report tells me the graphics card driver is failing.
Inspite of trying various different drivers, the problem persists. Today I changed the card all together & the trouble continued. Since I find it unlikely that two cards would have a problem & the drivers arein any case different, I'm beginning to think it's something else. The machine is essentially unusable with the graphics card, but fine without,
Could I be looking at a failing motherboard? It's a five year old Foxconn 6497mb & I would be quite comfortable swapping it out or doing anyhting else for that matter.
Memtest shows no problems & the box is well maintained & protected. Any ideas?
Should mention that i rebuilt it today to ne sure the o/s was not at fault - no change.