Hey guys..PC seems to have failed once again..
Errm, playing Fallout 3 earlier tonight, game starts crashing and holding up my PC...graphics driver telling me it stopped responding and has recovered successfully..okay..I thought it was Fallout 3 being screwy.
Anyways, after a few restarts I notice my desktop has wierd...blue pixels everywhere..then my monitor just goes black for around 30 secs and I get hit with a blue screen. PC reboots..tried a few times, same result.
So, I fire it up in safe mode, no problemo - just uninstall the current graphics driver and then reinstall it...I bring up the installer and it tells me I don't have the compatible hardware ...what the fuck??
So after trying a few times, I let windows 7 boot up without a driver, figuring it can find one itself...so I boot it up and it does. It then asks to restart and then I get the same black screen to bluescreen bullshit telling me about a driver corruption - no shit!
Anyways...after pulling my hair out and trying some older drivers, my PC starts getting wierd blue and yellow pixel streaks down the screen on the startup screen...all the text is fucked up and it's not even legable...
Sometimes it will bluescreen saying something about page_file something I can't really see the error message it moves too fast.
Occasionally I can get an option to try windows repair, that fixed the bios corruption once but as soon as it restarted again it came back and the 2nd time i tried to use the repair it told me it couldn't find an automatic solution...
Can anyone help me? This is looking seriously fucked..
I'm running win 7 32bit
4gb Ram,
1tb harddrive with win 7 on a seperate partition and
geforce 8800gts
Your graphics card has fried.
That's all there is to it. :(
If this is anything else, I'll eat my sock.
I'm really hoping it's not, that would be super ghey.
Even if it were the case however, why would it affect the bios and startup, i thought they were independant?
Graphic card failures sure do affect Bios or anything graphics related.
Even the slightest.
Hrm...okay, I always thought it had it's own little thing going on over at the motherboard for when you have a PC without a graphics card installed or driver-less..
Well it's late as fuck now.
Tomorrow I'll probably try re-seating everything but any tests to double check it's indeed graphics card anal rape?
The graphics card failing causes EVERYTHING it displays to look fucked up. No matter what or where it is. This includes the BIOS & POST screens.
If your motherboard has a built in video port, I recommend removing your 8800, and try using the built-in to see if anything looks alright.
If it does, 8800 is dead. If it doesn't, then it's most likely much worse (probable motherboard failure).
:'(
Fuuuuuck..I'm pretty much boned..either buy a slightly better card for a reasonable price but already on the outdated side and be pretty much a waste of money or buy a new card that will be good for a few years to come but then that would most likley mean getting a faster CPU otherwise it's just going to get bottle necked...
FUCK IT..man PCs fuck me off sometimes
What CPU do you have?
Off the top of my head it's something like a dual core 2.5ghz 2600 or around about..maybe a little less
have you tried reflowing it?
only do it if the card is out of warrenty
No idea what that even is..
As for the card, think I've had it for 1 or 2 years.
Maybe it's not broken but overheating? Get a separate graphics card fan and see if it works. GPU overheating can cause artifacting etc.
Edit: like this
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=576&name=VGA-Cooling[/url]
I can check tomorrow...i have no fan for the graphics card but its own internal fan thingy. Can't see it overheating from just getting from bios to boot up though.
Not that I know anything :(
[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;21950466']have you tried reflowing it?
only do it if the card is out of warrenty[/QUOTE]
That isn't a solution to everything, only a highly specialized problem. Stop suggesting it.
-snip-
I still have no idea what it is hah
[QUOTE=Kilgore 2nd;21950610]I still have no idea what it is hah[/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflow_soldering[/url]
Ah balls to that, sounds like more effort than it's worth lol but thanks for the info
It's an 8800, I've seen many of those die, I wonder if it's a sorta common problem.
If you're going to upgrade, consider the "lower" ones in the ATi Radeon HD 5xxx series. Those are the cheapest, and they aren't really bad at all.
[QUOTE=ChaosUnleash;21957061]It's an 8800, I've seen many of those die, I wonder if it's a sorta common problem.[/QUOTE]
I always see people having their 8800's die on them, happened to me too. It's pretty damn common.
Well my dad woke me up this morning dragging it all downstairs.
He's taken it apart and cleaned it, plugged in some really old peice of shit VGA cable thingy which caught fire LOL yea nice one pops :D
So yeah. Probably just going to have to use my old 6600 for a while.
Not sure if I want to buy a new pc just yet.
Well, balls I bought a new graphics card seems to have fixed it, thanks for the help guys :D
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