Is the video board dead?

[Mazi_mvatav]

Hi. I have a Gigabyte 7600GT Silent-pipe 2. It worked perfectly for the past 2months. Suddenly while playing nfs carbon the system got stuck... After a restart i got the bsod and an instant reboot...(and again for a couple of times). Reinstalled the OS (WinXP sp2 32bit), checked the hdd for bads..none, tried to install the video board (the latest gf7 driver from nvidia.com for the exact O/S) and it crashed midway. Got back in Win the driver was not installed (in add/remove prog.). This is the video board i am using right now.. just default windows resolutions and only software rendering. The image sometimes appears to be bad (some lines in a somewhat pattern on low res and in win i get matrix-type green dots ... what gives?).
After a while it got back to normal... installed everything... and it worked perfect... but crashed again (. I uninstalled the driver in safe mode to be able to use the comp (and not get the bsod while loading windows). Now i can install the driver(won t crash midway) but after the restart i get the same thing.
The video board and motherboard appear to be ok(nothing burnt/broken...)
Please reply and thanks in advance.

 

[r_manic]

Are you able to try the video card in another motherboard, or another video card on your motherboard? Also, are you sure you installed the card properly?

 

[Mazi_mvatav]

Couldn't try anything of the like yet... Everything is well in place and fastened properly. Everest is able to see my card and all its properties. However gpu-z doesn't (maybe cuz the drivers aren't installed). I saw that i could change the frequency between the mobo and the video card (an option in the bios). By bios default it shows me 100(?). Thanks

 

[Onus]

100 is correct. Your card is sufficiently old that an ATI HD4650 or nVidia 9600GSO would be nice but inexpensive replacements for it.

 

[coozie7]

Are you getting something like this problem mate?

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/forum2.php?config=tomshardwareuk.inc&cat=15&post=263992&page=1&p=1&sondage=0&owntopic=1&trash=0&trash_post=0&print=0&numreponse=0&quote_only=0&new=0&nojs=0

 

[Mazi_mvatav]

As a matter of fact i tried to play something without the drivers... GTA-VC said that it couldn't find the video memory... So this wraps it up... 10x for everything