I am afraid my good old trusty Geforce 8800 GTX has been broken or at least completely disabled from showing any display. After having some serious problems with Nvidia drivers crashing and then getting recovered (flicking screen, short black screen, then back to normal) I started up the computer one day and card seems to have been either overheated or destroyed.
The drivers installed by windows or myself causes the computer to reboot upon entering windows 7 64bit but can run in safemode or before driver updating. Beyond that I got blue stripes down the monitor.
I've tried:
Driver Sweeper: Which seemed to even have made it worse somehow. It might have been my bad use of the program that started the boot up problem.
Changing around the ram, trying 2 sticks instead of 4.
Changing monitor
Cleaning for dust/filth in the cabinet
Tried the other PCI-e slots in the motherboard
System restore to before the reboot problem, but not the nvidia drivers malfuctioning (or gpu failing).
Updating/resetting/defaulting bios.
System specifications:
ASUS P5Q PRO deluxe
Corsair TWIN2X 6400 DDR2, 4096MB CL5
EVGA Geforce 8800 GTX 756 mb
Windows 7 64 Bit
While I'm pretty positive that its the GPU that's failing, I was just wondering if anyone had ideas to solving it without going out and buying a new graphics card.
The drivers installed by windows or myself causes the computer to reboot upon entering windows 7 64bit but can run in safemode or before driver updating. Beyond that I got blue stripes down the monitor.
I've tried:
Driver Sweeper: Which seemed to even have made it worse somehow. It might have been my bad use of the program that started the boot up problem.
Changing around the ram, trying 2 sticks instead of 4.
Changing monitor
Cleaning for dust/filth in the cabinet
Tried the other PCI-e slots in the motherboard
System restore to before the reboot problem, but not the nvidia drivers malfuctioning (or gpu failing).
Updating/resetting/defaulting bios.
System specifications:
ASUS P5Q PRO deluxe
Corsair TWIN2X 6400 DDR2, 4096MB CL5
EVGA Geforce 8800 GTX 756 mb
Windows 7 64 Bit
While I'm pretty positive that its the GPU that's failing, I was just wondering if anyone had ideas to solving it without going out and buying a new graphics card.