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About a week ago, I re-installed Windows 7 on my PC. All was going good up until my screen went to 640x480 (like in pictures). I've tried using a driver sweeper and re-installing drivers. The drivers on Nvidia.com (260.99) say that it doesn't support my hardware. I have also tried some older 8800GT drivers, but they don't fix my problem.
Specs:
8800 GT 512mb
Windows 7 64 bit
Q9300 Quad 2.5GHz
250GB HardDrive
750 Watt PSU
When does it start doing that?
Couple days after I reinstalled Win7. I turned it off properly (no updates or anything) and turned it on next day, which is when it started doing that.
Could be that the card is finally going. Have you tried it in a different computer?
Your PSU is vastly overrated for its job.
[editline]4th January 2011[/editline]
Also, put your card in the oven for a bit.
[QUOTE=Thor667;27202577]Could be that the card is finally going. Have you tried it in a different computer?[/QUOTE]
No. I don't have any other PCs or any other graphics cards.
Oops. Douplepost.
This is almost exactly what happened when my 8800GTX died.
I had a similar problem with a dying card, i underclocked it a tiny bit and it fixed the problem
[editline]5th January 2011[/editline]
and forced the fans to 100%
Thanks for trying to help, everyone. I ordered a 470. I was going to buy one in a month anyway.
[QUOTE=dArKnEsS_2;27206139]This is almost exactly what happened when my 8800GTX died.[/QUOTE]
Atleast you had a warning. Mine just died, it stopped posting.
This happened to my old 8600GTS but alot worse. I simply turned off my comp one day, and my video card was fine. The next day my comp wouldn't boot due to my video card failing. Try to see if you can borrow someones video card to throw into your computer and see if that artifacting goes away. If it does, then you need a new video card.
Heres what you do.
Take the heatsink off your card, and place it on a cookie sheet with 4 foil balls on the corners about 2cm tall. MAKE SURE THAT IT IS GPU UP!
preheat your oven to 380 degrees and place the card in the oven. You should do atleast 10 minutes. I did my gtx 280 for 15 last time and its running beautifully.
Good luck!
You want me to put my heatsink in the oven? I don't understand how this could fix my graphics card.
[QUOTE=GunskiMod;27210012]You want me to put my heatsink in the oven? I don't understand how this could fix my graphics card.[/QUOTE]
[url=http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=606658]Here[/url] and [url=http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1421792.]here[/url] are two other places that have stories of some guys doing that, and I've seen it a few times on facepunch if I remember correctly. (Warning- the second link has some pretty big pictures.)
I've never tried it, but from what I understand the oven is heated up just enough to heats up the solder, allowing the card to re-solder itself. If you do it, do it as a last resort and be careful.
Just to make sure, I have to put the actual card (without the heatsink and thermal paste) in the oven, right? I might try this tomorrow. My 470 should be here on Friday, and my PC is pretty much unusable right now.
Edit:
NVM. I watched the video in the second link. Totally trying this tomorrow. Thanks.
It WORKED! Posting pictures in a new thread.
lol, I came to this thread and my monitor started to do similar things.
Atleast mine is a monitor problem, not a GPU problem.
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