• Artifacts appear everywhere (broken GPU?)
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3 days ago when I was playing TF2 suddenly the game froze and everything was weirdly colored and fractured. I turned my PC's power off (nothing else worked) and after playing 5 minutes it happened again. I restarted and it happened 5 seconds after I logged in. I went to sleep and my PC worked without any problems... until 1 hour ago. I was surfing the internet when the colors fucked up again, I couldn't do anything and everything was wildly misplaced. I restarted and it happened during the "Windows didn't shut down properly"-dialog. The PC still responded (I could move the selection), but the text was partially unreadable and misplaced (some parts were too high, some too low). I restarted (again...) and it happened during POST. I suspect my video card (8800GTS 512MB) died. Is it possible that something else broke or can I be 100% sure that it's my GPU? I would use my old video card as a replacement, but it's fan is broken, is there anything I can do to fix it? I just makes a very loud noise, maybe the bearing is damaged.
What are your temps? [url]http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php[/url]
I checked right after I restarted after it happened the second time and my CPU had somewhere between 40°C and 50°C (as always), my GPU 70°C (as always) and my northbridge had 48°C (as always). Didn't check my harddrives.
Dust out your GPU, that is pretty high for a 8800 on idle.
It worked like that for over 1.5 years. [B]Edit:[/B] And I dusted out my whole PC when I got my new CPU. That was 3-4 weeks ago. [B]Edit2:[/B] I'm using my notebook now and connected it to my main monitor using a VGA cable and I can't set my monitors resolution of 1680x1050. Only 1600x1200 and some resolutions lower than my native resolution. Can you help me with that too? Windows 7 RC Geforce Go 7600 179.67
[QUOTE=Robber;17249432]It worked like that for over 1.5 years. [B]Edit:[/B] And I dusted out my whole PC when I got my new CPU. That was 3-4 weeks ago.[/QUOTE] My 8800 ultra runs hot on idle too, 72 C.
[QUOTE=Robber;17249432] [B]Edit2:[/B] I'm using my notebook now and connected it to my main monitor using a VGA cable and I can't set my monitors resolution of 1680x1050. Only 1600x1200 and some resolutions lower than my native resolution. Can you help me with that too? Windows 7 RC Geforce Go 7600 179.67[/QUOTE] I'm sorry, but I can't help you on that because I am not familiar with nVidias drivers, and Win7.
I didn't really get an answer to my question: Can I be sure that it's my GPU's fault?
your GPU could be failing.. does it work fine in xp or what, then for sure its the drivers. XTreme-G has some notebook drivers, headover there
If you would have read the OP you could have seen that it happens before I even load Windows. Last time it happened during POST.
GPU = Starting to die.
A friend just told me it could be the PSU. After thinking about it for a few minutes it makes more and more sense. Because it behaved like a temperature problem, but I checked all the temperatures, except I couldn't check the PSU's temperature and it makes sense that the GPU behaves weird if it doesn't get enough power. Do you think this is possible? I already sent my GPU in, so that would suck....a lot.
PRobably overheating, might be a result of dust build up, even minimal amounts can raise your temps quite a bit, happened to me a while back. Clean out your computer first, see if that fixes it, if not then it could be the PSU supplying too high a voltage to your GPU, will increase the temps a bit.
resistors/capacitors are going there is no cost effective way to fix it other than a new gpu
Seems like you 2 didn't read my last post. I know it COULD be the GPU, if it is, in fact, the GPU I can easily get a new one since I still have warranty on it. But if it is another component 1. I don't know which one, 2. I already sent my GPU in and 3. I don't have warranty on anything, but the GPU and CPU and secondary hard drive anymore.
[QUOTE=Daniellynet;17262834]GPU = Starting to die.[/QUOTE] I agree, it's likely that it's beginning to fail after running at 70 degees for so long. My 9600GT is overclocked and it still only hits 60 on load. How long have you had your PSU?
I think two and a half years, but I'm not sure, could be much more/less. It's a Tagan 700W PSU.
Could easily be the PSU if you run your PC full-time. Degradation starts to occurr after a while.
Fuck. I hope it's the GPU.
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