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Problem with 8800GT

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February 26, 2011 5:13:12 AM

Alright, so I've just recently upgraded my system, sans video card. I've had various problems involving memory with my old mobo, so I bought a new mobo, memory and cpu. I bought the 8800GT probably about three years ago and some change and it has worked well for the most part. I bought my new stuff about three months ago, but have only been running it for about two.

Anyway, I booted up GTA IV and some artifacts (I think that's what they were; green, half-inch, horizontal lines appearing across the screen) and then froze. I thought it was just a freak lock-up, but I after rebooting and loading up the game again, it did it again. I then rebooted again, and this time it gave some funky graphical glitches in Windows (Windows 7 64-bit).

I thought it may have been my memory again, so I took out one stick ( I have two two GB sticks) and it still did it (this wasn't the case back with my first problems). So I eventually took out the card and used my mobo's (GIGABYTE GA-H55-USB3) onboard video. No graphical glitches, nothing.

Would this just be that the card is on its death-bed, or are there fixes for this? I consider myself to be slightly smarter than your average person when it comes to computer-related stuff, but that's not really saying much.

Thanks in advance

Steve

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February 26, 2011 6:07:23 AM

Its the card. Only thing you can really do is clean the sink of dust, make sure the fan is spinning, and try lowering the clocks a bit if that still doesn't work.
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February 26, 2011 6:12:01 AM

well i ve got to say that your card is near to its end however Only thing you can really do is clean the sink of dust, make sure the fan is spinning and you must look to downclock it and see if it works.
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February 26, 2011 6:18:55 AM

Old card it has seen its days.
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February 26, 2011 8:17:15 AM

I can remember when around 3yrs ago I bought a used 8800GS for $75. I just saw a used 8800GT for $45.
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February 26, 2011 2:36:21 PM

I think I'm just going to use this as an excuse to buy a new card. Thanks for the replies.
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