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GT 240 Installation Issues

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mayakindaguy

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Helping a friend install a PNY GT 240 in his rig and the screen will go black. I think I've narrowed it down to the card being bad or possibly the power supply.

The rig is:
psu: generic Rosewill 550 watt psu
cpu: AMD Phenom II X2
mobo: AsRock A770DE+
RAM: 3x1gb DDR2 800 RAM

He's running everything stock in BIOS. Has it set to PCI-E instead of PCI. On initial install it will boot into Windows but when running Flash video on any browser the screen will go black. Did some googling and disabled Hardware Acceleration for Flash and Flash video will work but that seems to just bypass the issue that the gpu isn't working properly. Once running a game screen will black out again. Different video drivers have been installed with same results. Unfortunately there's not another rig that we can just plug into to check if gpu runs fine on another system.

Is there another way to verify if it's gpu, mobo, psu or drivers?
 
Put another videocard in your PC to see if your current videocard is the culprit. I have a PNY Verto GT 240 and never experienced any issues.
 
try running the live version of ubuntu (download from here) or the mini XP on the hiren's bootcd (download from here). Just run a benchmark program or a game in either and see if it goes black then

Enjoy :D
 
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