Been having a couple of problems with my pc lately and im looking for some help or advice to get it working again. All help would be greatly appreciated.
About a week ago my computer could no longer run MW2, which i have been running fine since it came out. It would load into a game, maybe let me choose a weapon and then it would kick me back to my desktop, forcing me to quit the game through task manager. One time when this happened an error came up about directx.
Today i came home and things were a lot worse, as getting windows to work is now a problem. 1 of three things would happen.
1. Computer would load to the point where i could choose which user to log in as, and then once i chose one, screen would go black except for some random pixels.
2. Same as before, except screen would go completely black and the monitor would go into power saving mode (as if no signal from graphics card).
3. I would get into windows, maybe even load up firefox, but after a few seconds the screen would freeze and half of the pixels would jump a few cm to the left or right, looks really weird.
Also, everything is working fine in safe mode, which is how im posting this now.
System is:
Nvidea 8800GT
Intel e6750 dual core cpu (2.66gHz)
Abit ip35-e mother board
Corsair hx520 psu
Windows 7 64bit
Also my 500g harddrive is very near full if that has anything to do with it.
I've tried leaving the computer off for a while, and have taken out the video card and put it back in ensuring everything is connected firmly. There does seem to be a lot of dust in the heat sink of the graphics card, but im not sure i want to take that apart to give it a good clean and the fan seems to be spinning fine.
If you need any other info let me know. I suspect graphics card or directx/nvidea driver issues (haven't updated any of these drivers lately), but im not really sure. As said before, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
About a week ago my computer could no longer run MW2, which i have been running fine since it came out. It would load into a game, maybe let me choose a weapon and then it would kick me back to my desktop, forcing me to quit the game through task manager. One time when this happened an error came up about directx.
Today i came home and things were a lot worse, as getting windows to work is now a problem. 1 of three things would happen.
1. Computer would load to the point where i could choose which user to log in as, and then once i chose one, screen would go black except for some random pixels.
2. Same as before, except screen would go completely black and the monitor would go into power saving mode (as if no signal from graphics card).
3. I would get into windows, maybe even load up firefox, but after a few seconds the screen would freeze and half of the pixels would jump a few cm to the left or right, looks really weird.
Also, everything is working fine in safe mode, which is how im posting this now.
System is:
Nvidea 8800GT
Intel e6750 dual core cpu (2.66gHz)
Abit ip35-e mother board
Corsair hx520 psu
Windows 7 64bit
Also my 500g harddrive is very near full if that has anything to do with it.
I've tried leaving the computer off for a while, and have taken out the video card and put it back in ensuring everything is connected firmly. There does seem to be a lot of dust in the heat sink of the graphics card, but im not sure i want to take that apart to give it a good clean and the fan seems to be spinning fine.
If you need any other info let me know. I suspect graphics card or directx/nvidea driver issues (haven't updated any of these drivers lately), but im not really sure. As said before, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers