Hi everyone! So unfortunately, recently my good ol' 9800 GTX seems to be having problems. I was wondering if I could get some hints/advice about what the problem could be. The problem is that whenever I play a graphics intensive game, after a seemingly random amount of time, the game crashes with the sound freezing up and weird artifacting/flickering on the screen. The computer is completely unresponsive at that point, only thing to do is just turn it off.
At first I thought it was a driver issue. Recently, however, every once in a while when it crashes, upon rebooting there are weird patterns overlaying all of the boot up screens, before Windows even starts. Once windows boots, all the fancy transparency effects don't work, and when I try to start Nvidia Control Panel it tells me I do not have an Nvidia card in my system. A reboot at that point fixes the problem (well, at least until the next crash). This leads me to believe it's a hardware issue instead. Searching this forum as well as a few others, similar symptoms led to this conclusion.
One thing which I noticed that was different from other people describing the problem, is a weird thing with my shader and memory clock speeds. The values do not match the default values when I view them in GPU-z. My memory clock is slightly over default, and my shader clock is slightly under the default. I never messed with overclocking, so I definitely didn't change the clock speeds. Is it normal for the clocks to not be spot on? Or is this an indicator of something being wrong with the card?
By the way, I got GPU-z to monitor temps to see if it is overheating before it crashes, but it barely reaches 67 C when it crashes, which isn't that bad at all. The fan never goes above 50% capacity. I looked at the card, and it wasn't very dusty, but I cleaned it anyway, but to no avail.
Thanks for any help!
At first I thought it was a driver issue. Recently, however, every once in a while when it crashes, upon rebooting there are weird patterns overlaying all of the boot up screens, before Windows even starts. Once windows boots, all the fancy transparency effects don't work, and when I try to start Nvidia Control Panel it tells me I do not have an Nvidia card in my system. A reboot at that point fixes the problem (well, at least until the next crash). This leads me to believe it's a hardware issue instead. Searching this forum as well as a few others, similar symptoms led to this conclusion.
One thing which I noticed that was different from other people describing the problem, is a weird thing with my shader and memory clock speeds. The values do not match the default values when I view them in GPU-z. My memory clock is slightly over default, and my shader clock is slightly under the default. I never messed with overclocking, so I definitely didn't change the clock speeds. Is it normal for the clocks to not be spot on? Or is this an indicator of something being wrong with the card?
By the way, I got GPU-z to monitor temps to see if it is overheating before it crashes, but it barely reaches 67 C when it crashes, which isn't that bad at all. The fan never goes above 50% capacity. I looked at the card, and it wasn't very dusty, but I cleaned it anyway, but to no avail.
Thanks for any help!
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