I recently bought a new hp pavilion 521n 2.4ghz AMD Athlon PC for gaming.  It was fairly cheap & came with a lot of nice extras at 450.  Anyways, allow me to get to my problem.

I use my Voodoo4500 PCI for gaming so I figured I could take it out of my old PC & just put it into my new one just as easily as I could with my old one.  WRONG.  Windows XP immediately started acting up & crashing me left & right.  I look up some drivers for my V4500 PCI at voodoofiles.com, I eventually find some XP Voodoo drivers.  I disable my onboard card & get to work....

I install the drivers which work, then I plug in my card to the monitor.  I get odd graphical errors when my Voodoo card is plugged into the monitor like no startbar, background icons are missing, windows that pop up are missing, everything is gone except the background, resolution is super huge or small ect.  I'm forced to go back to the onboard card regardless.

I've tried multiple kinds of drivers for results.  Every one of them gives me the same problem.  It won't let me play any of my games in 3D unless it's off of my onboard card.  It drives me insane. 

Only close explanation I've been given from a friend is Voodoo PCIs are notoious for sucking on voltage from motherboards.  Newer motherboards don't let as much voltage flow to PCI cards which might be why the errors are happening with my card.

If anyone has a solution to the above problem or any other ideas please reply.  I'm pretty broke at the moment to buy a new card that would work & I'd like to get my voodoo working again if possible on my new machine.