Video card blues

After three evenings of messing around, I finally got my "new" video
card working in the kid's computer. I bought a used Nvidia GeForce3
video card from a guy I work with. I was trying to max out my old 1ghz
desktop so the kids could play games that required a 3D video card.
After I installed the card, I installed Halo and tried running it. It
loaded fine, but when I played the campaign, the computer immediately
rebooted with a blue screen. I tried a ton of stuff--uninstalling and
reinstalling Halo, defragging the hard drive, running Norton System
Works, removing memory chips--nothing worked. Finally, I downloaded the
previous five version of the driver from Nvidia's website and installed
the oldest one. That did the trick. Whew!

Both Halo and the Microsoft Train Simulator programs look great.

Moral of the story #1: computers are still a major pain. The average
person would probably had to take their computer in for someone to work
on. The tech. probably would have reinstalled the OS. I'm glad I was
able to figure this out.

Moral of the story #2: it really helps to have a spare computer in case
your system dies. There's no worse feeling then thinking your PC is
gone and you have no options.