• Screen turns purple when playing any game!?
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When playing any game I own be it Starcraft 2 or Counterstrike, everytime I get past the menus and into the game it will be perfectly normal for 2 or 3 minutes maximum and then just crashes to a glitchy broken up purple or green screen. This happens everytime and is very annoying as I haven't been able to play games for weeks now. These are my specs: Q6600 @ 2.4 - CPU Gtx280 - Gfx Corsair 2Gb x 4 - RAM 2 x 320Gb - HD;s Hope someone can help.
What are the temps on the graphics card? It sounds like it is overheating and artifacting. Also is it overclocked?
[IMG]http://i34.tinypic.com/2ywam2p.jpg[/IMG] It's not overclocked either. I thought it would be overheating as well but I don't think it's running too hot?
If that is idle then probably not, do you have any load temperatures during a game?
I can't get into a game long enough to be able to take a temp reading before it crashes, if we assume it is temperature then what can I do about it? I've had the computer nearly a year and don't see why it would start doing this now when it hasn't had a problem with temp before?
Have you given the inside of the computer a dusting? If you can get hold of a can of compressed air then spray everything inside to get rid of the dust. 2 Tips; Don't turn it upside down and spray and don't spray into the fans without restricting their movement as they will spin very very fast and could break. [editline]04:46PM[/editline] Another thing you can try is to download [URL="http://www.geeks3d.com/20100419/tool-furmark-1-8-2-available/"]Furmark[/URL], enable temperature logging and see how far you can run this and see the temperatures which are on the graph on the screen.
I did the furmark thing and it went to 87 degrees within 3 minutes, is that normal?
Reading some articles it seems like that is normal for your card. The only other thing I can suggest is a reinstall of drivers.
87 degrees is still pretty hot for a card though. Whether it normally heats up to that isn't really the issue, you should be trying to keep it as cool as possible.
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