- Feb 11, 2014
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I have a Sparkle GTX 460 1 gb graphics card.
A while ago, I noticed the computer would "hang" up but it was actually what I believe to be the graphics card freezing. This progressively turned worse as the screen would turn black after 20 seconds into windows bootup on the home screen. I called Sparkle, and was told the graphics card is dying and to send in a RMA.
After 2 months (I know...), I finally received a new graphics card (2 gb instead of the 1 gb I sent in). I inserted it into the PCI slot and away I went. Booted up the computer and bam, same problem. Safe mode or regular boot up, doesn't matter. Windows will boot then the screen will turn black after a short amount of time.
One thing I did notice, however, is that when I unplugged the video cord and plugged it into the other DVI slot (both are on the graphics card, don't have integrated graphics), I was able to see the window home screen for 3-4 seconds until the screen went black again. Can anyone explain to me what is going on?
A while ago, I noticed the computer would "hang" up but it was actually what I believe to be the graphics card freezing. This progressively turned worse as the screen would turn black after 20 seconds into windows bootup on the home screen. I called Sparkle, and was told the graphics card is dying and to send in a RMA.
After 2 months (I know...), I finally received a new graphics card (2 gb instead of the 1 gb I sent in). I inserted it into the PCI slot and away I went. Booted up the computer and bam, same problem. Safe mode or regular boot up, doesn't matter. Windows will boot then the screen will turn black after a short amount of time.
One thing I did notice, however, is that when I unplugged the video cord and plugged it into the other DVI slot (both are on the graphics card, don't have integrated graphics), I was able to see the window home screen for 3-4 seconds until the screen went black again. Can anyone explain to me what is going on?
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