The problems started a couple of days ago while playing Call of Duty 4 online. Every couple games or so. My graphics would randomly start freezing (the sound would still work) and I would see everything turn weird colors or it would just turn black all together. A couple of times I was able to alt tab out but the majority of the time I would have to force reboot my comp. Afterwords, it would work again for a couple of games and the same problem would occur.
Yesterday the problem continued and but started to happen every game. Today, it began to freeze immediately after loading, often time turning multi colors and not being able to load. I tried to load another 3d intensive game and it froze upon loading that one as well.
After reading some forums, I reinstalled the nvida drivers in safe mode, updated my bios, downloaded the latest dx9 driver and even tried loading an older nvidia driver (169.44) and nothing has helped. I updated punkbuster, uninstalled and reinstalled rivatuner and attempted to turn down the graphics card, none of which helped either. While loading CoD4, the temp spiked to 75 degrees celsius, and the video card idles at around 64.
My question is, how do I know if the problem is the video card itself or something else?
Here are my comp specs:
Dell Inspiron 530
750w Power Source
Xfx 8800- Ultra
2.33 pentium dual core processor
3g of ram
500gb hard drive
Yesterday the problem continued and but started to happen every game. Today, it began to freeze immediately after loading, often time turning multi colors and not being able to load. I tried to load another 3d intensive game and it froze upon loading that one as well.
After reading some forums, I reinstalled the nvida drivers in safe mode, updated my bios, downloaded the latest dx9 driver and even tried loading an older nvidia driver (169.44) and nothing has helped. I updated punkbuster, uninstalled and reinstalled rivatuner and attempted to turn down the graphics card, none of which helped either. While loading CoD4, the temp spiked to 75 degrees celsius, and the video card idles at around 64.
My question is, how do I know if the problem is the video card itself or something else?
Here are my comp specs:
Dell Inspiron 530
750w Power Source
Xfx 8800- Ultra
2.33 pentium dual core processor
3g of ram
500gb hard drive