Video card making PC freeze?

scottmso

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I recently RMA'd a dead AGP GeForce 5900XT to BFG and got a replacement for it. I decided to put it in my brother's computer (Dell Dimension 4550 P4 with WinXP.) I turned it on and loaded Firefox to download drivers. The video output shortly turns off (green > amber LED on monitor) and a few minutes later the PC resets. Seemingly it does the same thing with IE too. But it runs fine with his old card (crappy GeForce4 MX).

What might be the problem here? Might it be a) a bad card, b) compatibility/other hardware problems, or c) software problems? Anyone seen something like this happen before? Any advice appreciated - thanks!
 
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