Hello,
I am not sure what the deal is with this card, but yesterday the puter crashed, which is in itself odd, cause this hasn't crashed since I built it around 2 yrs ago.
But after the crash, words/letters were missing on the bootup and there was also blue/yellow vertical lines on the screen in random places, then it was giving me a blue screen with alot of missing txt. but I made out that the problem was the NV4 display driver, I had the most current driver installed for it, and make it a habit to keep it up to date. Anyhow, it said it was in an infinite loop and would not start. So I was able to go in Windows in safe mode and uninstall the driver and it didnt help. I took out the card several times and semi disassembled it and cleaned it and saw no visible problems with it, even looked at most of the circuitry with a magnifier and see nothing. Could someone please advise me as what the deal is? is it dead? I mean after I uninstalled the driver, it quit getting stuck in the loop and would go into windows, but the lines and pre-windows fubared text was still there. only other weird thing that happened with all this, is my onboard ethernet connection disappeared, so I took out the 8800 GT for now and threw in a very old Pny and an ethernet card so I could get online to try and solve this issue.
I would hate to have to trash this card right now, the pc isn't and hasn't been my gaming source, so it hasn't been working hard for over a year, just my wifes light light gaming on FB and other little games. The temps have always been the same and usually sat at or between 75c and 77c,.
Would appreciate any help with this, just need to know if someone thinks this card is done or salvageable or what? I am no tech just a old gamer that has built a few gaming puters via help.
Thank You.
Sincerely,
Kenny
I am not sure what the deal is with this card, but yesterday the puter crashed, which is in itself odd, cause this hasn't crashed since I built it around 2 yrs ago.
But after the crash, words/letters were missing on the bootup and there was also blue/yellow vertical lines on the screen in random places, then it was giving me a blue screen with alot of missing txt. but I made out that the problem was the NV4 display driver, I had the most current driver installed for it, and make it a habit to keep it up to date. Anyhow, it said it was in an infinite loop and would not start. So I was able to go in Windows in safe mode and uninstall the driver and it didnt help. I took out the card several times and semi disassembled it and cleaned it and saw no visible problems with it, even looked at most of the circuitry with a magnifier and see nothing. Could someone please advise me as what the deal is? is it dead? I mean after I uninstalled the driver, it quit getting stuck in the loop and would go into windows, but the lines and pre-windows fubared text was still there. only other weird thing that happened with all this, is my onboard ethernet connection disappeared, so I took out the 8800 GT for now and threw in a very old Pny and an ethernet card so I could get online to try and solve this issue.
I would hate to have to trash this card right now, the pc isn't and hasn't been my gaming source, so it hasn't been working hard for over a year, just my wifes light light gaming on FB and other little games. The temps have always been the same and usually sat at or between 75c and 77c,.
Would appreciate any help with this, just need to know if someone thinks this card is done or salvageable or what? I am no tech just a old gamer that has built a few gaming puters via help.
Thank You.
Sincerely,
Kenny