- Feb 20, 2013
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Hi all,
My GeForce 280 GTX has very recently begun acting strangely. Whenever I boot a game or visit youtube or any website with streaming video the Graphics card suddenly stops rendering and fills the screen with a garble of pink and green artifacts. 2 seconds after this the monitor goes into standby mode as if the card has ceased outputting at all.
System Information:
Windows Vista x64 Home SP2
6GB RAM
Quad Core Intel CPU @ 2.66 Ghz per core.
I have reinstalled the drivers and this fixes the issue, but the next time I reboot the computer the problem returns until I reinstall the drivers again.
Is this a hardware issue, is this driver related (such as conflicts)?
I will be testing a replacement card in a day or so, but could anyone think of any causes that aren't directly related to faulty hardware (i.e. dead card)?
Your assistance much appreciated.
EDIT: Just to confirm completely removing (via add/remove programs) the Graphics Card Drivers and then reinstalling them clears the error. However, once the computer has been restarted the error returns until the driver uninstall/reinstall provess has been repeated. This would seem to rule out a hardware fault. I have also tried multiple Nvidia driver versions, including Beta drivers and full release-version drivers. All result in this error.
My GeForce 280 GTX has very recently begun acting strangely. Whenever I boot a game or visit youtube or any website with streaming video the Graphics card suddenly stops rendering and fills the screen with a garble of pink and green artifacts. 2 seconds after this the monitor goes into standby mode as if the card has ceased outputting at all.
System Information:
Windows Vista x64 Home SP2
6GB RAM
Quad Core Intel CPU @ 2.66 Ghz per core.
I have reinstalled the drivers and this fixes the issue, but the next time I reboot the computer the problem returns until I reinstall the drivers again.
Is this a hardware issue, is this driver related (such as conflicts)?
I will be testing a replacement card in a day or so, but could anyone think of any causes that aren't directly related to faulty hardware (i.e. dead card)?
Your assistance much appreciated.
EDIT: Just to confirm completely removing (via add/remove programs) the Graphics Card Drivers and then reinstalling them clears the error. However, once the computer has been restarted the error returns until the driver uninstall/reinstall provess has been repeated. This would seem to rule out a hardware fault. I have also tried multiple Nvidia driver versions, including Beta drivers and full release-version drivers. All result in this error.
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