wickedwelk Posted January 24, 2010 Member ID: 84 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 23 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 493 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 2695 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 12/31/1967 Share Posted January 24, 2010 hi there im running a nvidia zotac g force 8800 gts graphics card which has been brilliant for the last year. playing all my games etc on high spec. however over the last three months, when i have been playing i have been getting a problem which is really random ie may happen once a week. or three times in a day. as im playing the game scren locks up and i get a wash of mutli coloured straight lines running in all directions which covers the screen. i am unable to do anything with my somputer and the only way to shut it down is to turn the electricity off at the mains. i will then re start the comp and it will be fine i have all the latest drivers for everything thats in my computer including graphic ones and everything is up to date your help please thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollardogg Posted January 24, 2010 Member ID: 189 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 45 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1388 Content Per Day: 0.26 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 7432 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 10 Birthday: 02/01/1978 Device: Windows Share Posted January 24, 2010 looks like a new card will be bought soon usally happens when there going bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickJames Posted January 24, 2010 Member ID: 58 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 7 Topic Count: 370 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 2552 Content Per Day: 0.48 Reputation: 3 Achievement Points: 16507 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 26, 2012 Birthday: 08/27/1975 Share Posted January 24, 2010 voltage regulator is bad on your graphics card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweatnbullets Posted January 24, 2010 Member ID: 213 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 11 Topic Count: 61 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 819 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 517 Achievement Points: 5645 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 3 hours ago Birthday: 06/06/1963 Device: Windows Share Posted January 24, 2010 Start saving now, this happened to me, then BOOM>>>>>>>>>>>>> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
WiZiD Posted January 24, 2010 Member ID: 804 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 446 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 3600 Content Per Day: 0.68 Reputation: 1053 Achievement Points: 24386 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 11/28/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 7, 2020 Birthday: 04/25/1960 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Bake it!!!! http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1421792 You got nothing to loose now!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
7Toes Posted January 24, 2010 Member ID: 87 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 57 Topic Count: 98 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3789 Content Per Day: 0.71 Reputation: 3589 Achievement Points: 27249 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2022 Birthday: 04/02/1871 Share Posted January 24, 2010 lol sweatin bullets is that a 12ga shotty with a deer slug in your sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
7Toes Posted January 24, 2010 Member ID: 87 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 57 Topic Count: 98 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3789 Content Per Day: 0.71 Reputation: 3589 Achievement Points: 27249 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2022 Birthday: 04/02/1871 Share Posted January 24, 2010 doc james i have this pain in my neck can you help me ....and no i cant kill my wife lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
2_MANY_BEERS Posted January 24, 2010 Member ID: 96 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 107 Topic Count: 1048 Topics Per Day: 0.20 Content Count: 8812 Content Per Day: 1.64 Reputation: 3298 Achievement Points: 62176 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 29 Birthday: 06/30/1954 Device: Windows Share Posted January 24, 2010 Good by the time you get up and running again I might have taken the explosives metal back from you. LOL J/K. Hope you figure it out Welk. Blow you up later. BEERS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChknFngr Posted January 24, 2010 Member ID: 922 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 72 Topic Count: 149 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 3472 Content Per Day: 0.66 Reputation: 1286 Achievement Points: 23224 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/23/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 16, 2021 Birthday: 10/01/1975 Share Posted January 24, 2010 do u ever clean the dust of ur fans ? artifacts usually happens when u get too much heat cause by dust so before buying a new card, go get a dust-off can and clean the dust while computer is not on and unplugged from power Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
wickedwelk Posted January 25, 2010 Member ID: 84 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 23 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 493 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 2695 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 12/31/1967 Author Share Posted January 25, 2010 ok thanks all for your help, yep i do clean the fans regularly. think ill wait for the big boom and then upgrade i like tha baking idea myself but im a techno fobe and the thought of removing bits prior to the baking process scares the hell out of me lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
$piv Posted January 25, 2010 Member ID: 243 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 75 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 6 Achievement Points: 431 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 08/17/1959 Share Posted January 25, 2010 I agree with CHKN, Clean that bad boy. I just did mine and temps are way down. They are easy to take apart. Apply some new thermal paste, it may help also. The 8800 GTS-GT have been good to me, and i overclock teh shit out of them. BUT. The 8800GTS does not OC that well but still a great card. My 8800GT has been running at 700-950 for years. I never had a vid card go bad yet. But NO JOB so I hope my old 8800 keeps on rollin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
$piv Posted January 25, 2010 Member ID: 243 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 75 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 6 Achievement Points: 431 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 08/17/1959 Share Posted January 25, 2010 What are your gaming temps????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unchileno Posted January 25, 2010 Member ID: 101 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 109 Topic Count: 764 Topics Per Day: 0.14 Content Count: 8133 Content Per Day: 1.51 Reputation: 6747 Achievement Points: 61498 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 27 Birthday: 01/23/1974 Device: iPhone Share Posted January 25, 2010 Maybe you can use it as door stopper...or baked it with some chile on the side..hm..good times..Hope that could help you mate.. Your JackseyGiver friend..UnchilenoXI.... lmao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
X-RayXI Posted January 25, 2010 Member ID: 133 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 77 Topic Count: 602 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 6889 Content Per Day: 1.28 Reputation: 1371 Achievement Points: 44114 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 11:06 PM Birthday: 12/12/1971 Device: Windows Share Posted January 25, 2010 I have one 8600GTX XXX laying here and the first signs was like you have said. Cleaning it isnt going to help you now but try WiZiD link and for sure and I almost bet that the card will be 'dead' in a few months. You might need to check if the card has a newer BIOS to flash in, but in both cases; be careful(of course) http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1709/TechPowerUp_GPU-Z_v0.3.8.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
BoomSlang Posted January 26, 2010 Member ID: 94 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 7 Topic Count: 60 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 554 Content Per Day: 0.10 Reputation: 367 Achievement Points: 3759 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 2 hours ago Birthday: 12/03/1955 Device: Windows Share Posted January 26, 2010 See if you can RMA the card some have a life time warranty. Thats what I did with my 8800gtx. And because the didn't have that card they sent me a 285 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Noears711XI Posted January 26, 2010 Member ID: 238 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 189 Topic Count: 75 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2162 Content Per Day: 0.40 Reputation: 1940 Achievement Points: 19609 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 8, 2022 Birthday: 07/09/1957 Share Posted January 26, 2010 Yeah Bloomslang there are only three Companies out there that sell cards with Life time warranties EVGA, XFX, and BFG. Zotac is not one of them. You might want to replace the the Cooler with a Third Party Cooler do some reseacher and try to buy one on eBay for cheap since it is an older card already. Lots of coolers going around eBay these days for olders cards. I did for a 6600GT I have sitting around the card was artifacting and I replaced the cooler and till this day it still works, I use to test peoples machines to check if there VGA card is fried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
mikey1799 Posted January 26, 2010 Member ID: 559 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 28 Topic Count: 20 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 627 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 47 Achievement Points: 3492 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 16 Birthday: 10/09/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted January 26, 2010 sounds like power problem m8 is you power suply ok.have ya change ya windows (to windows 7) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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