Hello, I have a very weak Dell Optiplex Gxi with Pentium 200 Mhz MMX 32MB RAM. I know my PC is weak as anything, but I wanted to experiment on a weak PC before I moved onto the nice PC I am saving money for. Anyway, I noticed that installing a Geforce2 64MB video card makes my PC realllllly slow. I tried turning off all the enhanced features such as anti aliasing, but my PC is slower then ever. I always tell people that my video card slows down my PC, and everyone just replies "that's weird, I have no problem with mine" Even people with my same specs have nice video cards and it enhances their games.
Doesn't the 64MB RAM in the video card act as "extra" RAM to process more textures? So in result, shouldn't that make my PC load faster then before since it has less "graphics" to focus on? Instead it seems like my PC is 50MHZ now. The reason I ask here is because everyone says that their video cards never slwo down their computers. I know everyone here ALWAYS has the answers, you are all very brillant. Thank you.

You have a conflict from the old graphics.You failed to mention wether you where using on board graphics or another video card before going to the geforce.If it was anouther card,make sure you disable and remove any reference to the old card.If you do not then conflicts between the drivers of both cards can easly cause this problem.Same goes with on board graphics.For on board you need to go into the bios and dissable the it and look for a setting the enables pci graphics.If you dont have any options for these in the bios,look for jumpers on the mobo itself that will change these settings.Check with the manufacters web site for directions on how to do this.after you have dissabled the old graphics and completly removed all old drivers,also remove the drivers for the new video card,reboot,then reinstall.At this point you should be ready to go,if not install old card agine.If everything gose back to normal you might want to consider backing up iimprtant files and reformating hard drive and reinstalling windows with new card in place.If all this fails take the card back for replacment.I doubt it will come to this however.Let me know your results

Ok, I think it would be easier just to format, because the most important thing I have saved on my PC are links to like 3 or 4 websites heh. Thanks a lot man, I will try it now. Just to make sure I understand you, if I format my harddrive, will it automatically use the drivers needed for my new video card, and not the old one? Then that would save time from finding drives and so forth. I will also let you know my progress. Oh another thing, now I have no sound at all in my games! I can still listen to music and here sound efects using the PC, but the games have no sound at all. Common sense tells me it also deals with what you said. Thanks a lot.

Greatgamer, yes try this before doing what I suggested MAYBE this will fix the problem. Also greatgamer to disable your videocard in the bios go into it and disable "feature connector" you will see this on the second page in the bios. What this does is it does not use your videocard and windows will not use it either. Try this first before formatting, you dont really need to format just disable it in the bios then if win2k has a device manger (i'm really not sure) disable it in that to. Also no matter what you do it will show up in windows in the device manger because it's a onboard videocard, so dont worry about it showing up.

Man screw it. I seem to always gain an extra problem after solving one lol. Ok, after I formatted my Hard drive, my PC is at an "acceptable" speed now. However, for some very strange reason, my Geforce Card is causing my PC to forget it's proxy settings! It has been doing this before, but I thought I had fixed it the first two times. Well, I now took the Geforce out, and put it in my closet. I re-installed my 4MB Video Card which is performing 20 times better then my Geforce lol. Why on earth is it disconnecting me from the internet I wonder? Not even my ISP customer service "advanced" technicians couldn't figure it out. They said my signal is good, my PC shows that the IP address and DNS numbers are there, yet I get a message that I cannot connect. Very weird. I am not having any problems with the old rusty mobo video card though.

Unless im not uderstanding you right you asked in your first responce wether reinstalling will use only the drivers for your new card.Well i doubt that windows 98 has any drivers for this card .ME might but you didnt mention what os you are running.No matter what it is you should use the driver disk that came with the card.then connect and go to the web site for updated versions.Bad drivers can cause alot of problems.If this still dosnt fix it then take the card back for exchange.

you's are all wrong. trying to put a 64Mb geforce in a P1 200Mhz is stupid. if you read the box i bet it says it needs at least a pentium 2 to run and also some video cards actually use your processors speed to run so your video card could actually be draining the cpu's speed to use for it's self therefore slowing it down a lot.

i just remembered that at the store i saw a 32meg vid card and it needed at least a Pentium 3 600Mhz