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GTX 8800 Freeze

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February 22, 2011 12:46:55 PM

This is a really weird problem that started a few days ago out of nowhere.
My screen freeze up for a few seconds, I start seeing weird pixels, weird colors, then computer restarts. In a loading screen all I see is weird streched marks, when windows start up my resolution is like 640xsomething.... 16bit... I couldn't change anything. So i thought it has smth to do with my drivers or something, so I reformated pc, now everything is running smothly but PC recently started recieving a Physicall dump well It happened only once... Then I came up with a thought maybe my GPU overheating but i've checked temps looks everything fine... Maybe my GPU started to die slowly?

Sorry for broken english, cheers experts.

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a b U Graphics card
February 22, 2011 1:19:53 PM

It sounds like either your graphics card is dying or your memory is starting to go faulty.
a c 188 U Graphics card
February 22, 2011 1:30:32 PM

8800s seem to have a good (or bad I guess) history of failure. Look at other posts in this forum about them. And myself I have gotten a 8800 fresh from the factory from an RMA of another dead one that would not run any type of 3D without issues and system lock-ups.
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February 22, 2011 1:34:01 PM

Hmmmm, still kinda weird tho. Worked very well for 4 years, and now it started to die. :( 
a b U Graphics card
February 22, 2011 1:43:38 PM

That's what happens to them though. With repeated heating and cooling, a solder connection somewhere may have come apart, causing intermittent issues. Sadly they aren't engineered to last forever as they want you to buy another sometime down the road!
February 24, 2011 2:21:09 PM

It's funny tho, coz now it stopped, atleast I didnt have any problems for the past 3 days...
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