Okay so I've been playing Saint's Row 2 quite a bit for the past several days. There would occassionally be glitched models and I wouldn't think much of it. Last night I start doing a side mission when a model glitches. The game gets covered in these strange lines but doesn't crash. I am surprised and continue playing. It happens again and I just close out. Today I was playing and the lines popped up again but this time the whole computer froze. I restart and I'm confronted by this:
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Not my picture but it's basically what I'm seeing. My specs:
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6002)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: Vostro 400
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz (2 CPUs), ~3.0GHz
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Page File: 997MB used, 3342MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
But for display I get this:
Card name:
Manufacturer:
Chip type:
DAC type:
I'd post the rest but it kinda doesn't matter if it's blank. I did find a bit of promising evidence. I went into my device manager and checked the properties. I was relieved to find this:
Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43)
Now I'm not entirely sure how to fix this problem but it's nice to see that it "stopped the device" I am hopeful that this isn't a nice way of saying it completely fried. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Try speccy or hw monitor
If your card is still in warrenty, RMA it. If not, you need to reflow the GPU.
Speccy would just tell me my specs. The computer is detecting the card it's just not using it. Also I don't believe my card is still in warranty and I have no idea what reflowing the gpu means.
Reflowing is the process that heats up the BGA chip (in this case, the GPU) to a very high temperature using hot air to melt the solder under the GPU, which is now a problematic issue as certain solder balls are breaking apart, causing connection issues. By reflowing the GPU, the solder balls will be able to "fix themselves" and your card will work again if the process was done correctly.
If you are not confident to do it yourself, I can offer to reflow the GPU for you, as I have a BGA rework station.
Are you sure that would be the only way of fixing my graphics card? If so I'll have to think about it.
Yes, this is the only cause for your descriptions of artifacts. Other than that, the RAM may be failing, which is very unlikely
Huh it's possible. My computer has been acting a tiny bit slower.
I was referring to faulty VRAM, you know, the ram chips that are soldered on the graphics card.
What is your graphics card?
[QUOTE=Thor667;19645732]What is your graphics card?[/QUOTE]
Nvidia Geforce 8800 gt.
Also to the Vram guy I'm not very tech savvy and if that's the case I think there might be more than just hardware failure at work here.
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