Bad graphic card?

[papapanda]

I recently reinstalled Windows XP (Home Edition SP2) on my computer. Everything was going fine untill I tried to load up a game. At that instant my computer froze. I thought I needed to download the latest driver. So I went to Nvidia.com and downloaded and installed the new driver. I reset my computer then tried again. Same thing. It wouldn't even get me to the login screen. Is it a bad graphics card or is something worse wrong with my computer?

 

[badge]

I recently reinstalled Windows XP (Home Edition SP2) on my computer. Everything was going fine untill I tried to load up a game. At that instant my computer froze. I thought I needed to download the latest driver. So I went to Nvidia.com and downloaded and installed the new driver. I reset my computer then tried again. Same thing. It wouldn't even get me to the login screen. Is it a bad graphics card or is something worse wrong with my computer?

I have seen bad RAM cause this very thing. Try removing one stick at a time. Or try other RAM. HTH.

 

[Bazukaz]

You may want to try to set AGP(You have an agp slot ?) speed from 8x to 4x , if possible.

 

[papapanda]

Nope no AGP. Only PCI Express.

 

[racerboywonder]

I'm not sure why it might work for you, but lately my 9600XT has been freezing almost immediately (generally on the menus) if I play in full-screen mode on most of my games. If I try it in windowed mode, it seems to work--it sucks--but it works. Try running in windowed mode and see if you can get to play until you find a permanent fix.

 

[papapanda]

I'll have to try that when I get home tomorrow. But is there a way to change the video options w/o running the game? Because my computer freezes almost immediatly after loading the game. I can't even get to the main menu. Also does the slot the ram is affect it at all? I just put some heat spreaders on both RAM sticks but I think that won't affect it...

 

[racerboywonder]

Depends on the game...almost everything I play has a graphics configuration separate from the executable for the game. Check your Start panel and find your game's folder in All Programs...might be under "Setup", or "Configuration", or "Configure "[name of game]". If it's there, you'll hopefully find a "Run in windowed mode" option, or something similar.

I don't think the heat spreaders would do anything, unless they somehow shorted something out...never heard of that happening though. Maybe someone else might know a little more about the chances of that occuring. It is possible that you have a bad slot however...try a different one and see what you come up with.

 

[papapanda]

Ok I changed the slots where the ram was and it worked... For about 15 mins. Then the same thing happened. Totally forgot about putting it in Window mode. But now when I load Windows I get this "SLI Multi GPU Rendering Has been disabled" I only have one graphics card and the SLI card is switched to normal.

 

[drcroubie]

...Windows XP...
...is something worse wrong with my computer?

*cough*






:roll:

 

[IVXIFiReFlY]

This sometimes happens with wrong memory timings even if they are default thay could be wrong, i see u use AN8 Fatality but what about ram..... try to modify latency and see if anything changes, mostly this problems appears if you use standard (ussual) memory.....

 

[racerboywonder]

Ok I changed the slots where the ram was and it worked... For about 15 mins. Then the same thing happened. Totally forgot about putting it in Window mode. But now when I load Windows I get this "SLI Multi GPU Rendering Has been disabled" I only have one graphics card and the SLI card is switched to normal.

Try windowed mode!!