video trouble, eq2 fault or defective card?Follow

I have had some trouble with my new video card. I have tried the drivers that it came with, newest offical drivers from there website, and now the beta drivers. I have a Geforce FX 5600 card with 256 ram. With the first 2 drivers I was randomly getting the blue screen errors saying my drivers was bad and it would either restart my PC, or change my colors to 16-colors until I rebooted.

I am for the time being useing SOE's recommended drivers which are Beta drivers. I don't know if these errors are due to me having a defective video card, or due to SOE/Verent having bugs in Everquest 2. I would rather hear there are bugs in the game then find out my card is truely bad.

I have not really played any other games on my PC, so its hard to say if other games produce this same error.

I have been useing the Beta drivers recommended by SOE now for a couple of days and so far no trouble. This don't really mean anything though since it takes it several days to actually do this.
Hopefully it will be fine now.

I really don't see how the hardware in the card could truely be bad though, would think if that was the case it would do it more often and not just in game? Every error generally seems to be about drivers it says.

was wondering can you use cd-rom driver or does it have to be dvd-rom? just alittle input b4 i go out and buy a dvd-rom

The error I get isn't a standard Windows error. Its basically the Blue screen of death type deal and it says the name of the driver and that it is corrupted. Sometimes it resets my PC, other times it just puts me at 16 colors. When I re install drivers it works fine again for about 3 or 4 days then it does it again. I have used 3 different driver sets now, includeing the ones EQ recommends. Each time I install the drivers I go into safe mode and make sure to remove the old drivers.

Another thing I didn't mention, but I recently upgraded my Hard Drive. When I did this I just re-installed windows, eq2, drivers, and of course the latest Direct X. I have had this problem before and after the new HD, so I don't think its Direct X causeing the problem.

I have gotten a RMA to send the card back, but Im still not 100% sure the card is even bad. Hate to send it back, cause obviously gotta wait for a new one.

Anybody else know of anything else to try? I have run out of ideas. I would have thought if anything would fix this trouble it would have been the fresh install of XP, drivers, direct X, etc.

Only other thing I can possibly think of is just it being a bug with Everquest 2. I have not really spent any time playing any other games recently, and every time I have a problem it is while playing Everquest 2. However I have talked to people on-line with this card, and my friend even has one and so far has had no trouble.

I did have aproblem somewhat similar to that. I cant remember for the life of me what it was called but it was something like a looping error. It all started for me with updating my video drivers, the computer would frezze, reboot on its own. I would then have to boot into safe mode uninstall the drivers just so I could try and fix it. I ended up taking my video card out and putting it in another computer and had no problems. I also took another card and put it in the computer I was having problems with and the same thing happened. I ended up sending the motherboard in for RMA and the problem fixed it self. You may be experiencing something similiar.