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PC Broke - Need Some Confirmation
Lorek
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So I was happily playing Oblivion when all of a sudden the game crashes, followed by a BSOD. The file given for the problem was some file starting with an n, can't recall it precisely but it looked like it was probably an nvidia file.
Anyway, after rebooting, there were random blocks of blue going across my bios startup screens. At one point when the bios lists all my devices on their IRQ channels, it just ended up writing garbage characters instead. The PC still managed to boot into Windows 7, but I'm in the default 800x600 resolution, and there a bunch of smaller blue squares in rows all across my monitor.
I let my PC sit off for about an hour to cool just in case, but same problem when I booted up again. I'm about 99% sure my video card just decided to devour itself, but the garbage characters on bootup makes me wonder if that could be motherboard or something... is the video card involved with display at that early a point?
So I guess I'm just looking for confirmation that its the video card or what else it could be. I only have this one PC so I can't really test parts in other machines.
Anyway, after rebooting, there were random blocks of blue going across my bios startup screens. At one point when the bios lists all my devices on their IRQ channels, it just ended up writing garbage characters instead. The PC still managed to boot into Windows 7, but I'm in the default 800x600 resolution, and there a bunch of smaller blue squares in rows all across my monitor.
I let my PC sit off for about an hour to cool just in case, but same problem when I booted up again. I'm about 99% sure my video card just decided to devour itself, but the garbage characters on bootup makes me wonder if that could be motherboard or something... is the video card involved with display at that early a point?
So I guess I'm just looking for confirmation that its the video card or what else it could be. I only have this one PC so I can't really test parts in other machines.
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If you installed new drivers without uninstalling the old ones, take all video card drivers off your system and reinstall a fresh set. Make sure your card didn't become unseated.
Went to Nvidias webpage to grab the latest drivers; the auto-detect said I was using version 0.0; installed the latest driver, but no luck
Just noticed that Windows actually has the device stopped since its not functioning, with a code 43.
No port directly on the motherboard unfortunately. The video card has two monitor ports, but both are doing the same thing.
Un-installed the drivers and let windows install its base set, no change.
Unfortunately, other than buying a new card, the only solution I could find was baking the video card in an oven. I'm not vouching for that solutions validity.
It actually seems to be pretty common in the 8800 series cards, and the best I could figure the issue was is bad video card RAM.
This looks like it may be it; seems to be exactly whats described in that thread, and my video card would be just about 2-3 years old, also like in that thread. I guess its head on over to the PC parts store tomorrow; I guess this can be locked now, thanks everyone.