JoraniusMinecraft said:
builderbobftw said:
^ Yeh, the other day I was working on a MAcbook Air with an identical problem, the screen just fliped out and make random chades of purple/green/blue and turned out the LCD was totally shatered inside as a resulet of a nasty fall.
Try re-conncecting the VGA cable.
Even if the card is fine, you should consider an upgrade if you have the cash, the GTX 280 still has decent resale value.
Hmm, I'm having the exact same problem as the author of this thread and after reading your posts, I think that you may can help me
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I have no experience in putting computers together at all (all I know is that there's motherboards, processors, optical drivers, hard drives, Air and Watercooling, RAM and Gcards) My Graphic card is a "NVIDIA GeForce GT620", so after what I've been able to read from this thread, it should be a very new Graphic card and I've only had my PC for a year and the warranty says 2, so it's a little weird
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My PC holds an Intel Core i7 3770 Processor, a 1 TB hard drive & 16 GB of RAM. It won't tell me the model of the motherboard without me opening my PC. The only prob I can spot here and now is that I once tested how light the colors of my screen would be if I placed a HDMI cable instead of my DVI cable. Only a few day after started this problem when I tried to play Skyrim. First I thought I had too many mods on, so I switched all mods off, uncept the official DLCs, but it still didn't help. So today I tried to lauch "Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning" but the problem was still there. Idk what's wrong, but you may do
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Thanks for reading all this (or just scanning, I know I write a lot, pretty hard to stop really
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How has it been nearly 4 years since this post?? Crazy how time flies...
Anyhow, that card was utterly hopeless, I ended up selling it on Ebay and the unfortunate buyer had horrible problems with it. The buyer sent it back, I refunded and sold it again for spares and repairs (to which the new buyer said it was fine after he/she fixed it).
So to sum up, the reason for the problems was the faulty graphics card.
As a PC enthusiast, I may be able to help you with your problem - it could well be driver or temperature related. Sometimes when you subject hardware to lengthy periods of use or put them under huge stress, they over heat and freak out.
First of all, make sure you have the latest driver version installed for your current graphics card.
Standard graphics card drivers are renowned for not having proper fan speed adjustment; they will always be set to an automatic fan speed adjustment and will try to guage what fan speed the card should be on. What I would suggest is to monitor your graphics card temperature and see what kind of temperatures you hit. For this I use a program called SpeedFan (probably not the best, but it does the job). This will show you what kind of temperatures your components are currently at, you want to look at GPU & CPU temperature.
If during game time, your temperatures are running above 80 degrees, you really want to look at your fan speed settings. You will be able to do this by going into your graphics card drivers (your GT620 should have these) and look at your fan speed, you'll find this after playing around with the graphics card software options. You will notice that your fan control will be set to automatic; set this to manual and ramp it up to 100%. You will notice that your PC will be sounding as if its taking off, but for the purposes of fixing your problem, you will have to live with it.
This should then dramatically reduce the temperature of your graphics card, which you can check on SpeedFan, let me know if you continue to have this problem.
If this doesn't help you at all, you should consider speaking to the manufacturers or place of purchase, and use the warranty that you have been granted - it will most likely be a hardware problem and you should almost certainly be covered. By all means, do not take your PC apart as this will most likely void your warranty; let the experts deal with that!
Good luck, and let me know.