9800GT Artefacts??? What to do???

[CinderzFTW]

Hey all,

Bought a 9800GT from ebay for my misses for £40 (no access to members market for about a week yet) and checked all the other sales the seller had and everything seemed ok.

Got the card yesterday. Uninstalled all the old 8 series drivers and installed the 9800GT as normal and installed the latest drivers.

Been working ok until a few minutes ago. My misses was playing sims 3 and her pc just went black screen. I restarted and got this:

Any ideas what has happened?

Is the card just a bad card?

Thanks

 

[jamesfreddie]

Seems just like a bad card. You could clean the card out, then try again if that fails then try reinstalling drivers. Or windows. Does it do this at the BIOS screen?

 

[CinderzFTW]

Seems just like a bad card. You could clean the card out, then try again if that fails then try reinstalling drivers. Or windows. Does it do this at the BIOS screen?

yea in bios

 

[NoiseKraft]

My 8800GTX was doing the exact same thing and it has happened to me twice.

Read this thread to see how I fixed it;

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18165803

 

[coupe69]

Looks pretty borked that does. You should have got yourself a refurbed one from Overclockers for £34.99, at least you get some sort of warranty with that too!

 

[randal]

Bummer, I probably wouldn't go back to the seller on that one. As far as he knew (and you until the Sims 3 incident) it was working fine and dandy.

I'd oven cook it, nothing to lose. Failing that, link above, down to experience.

 

[CinderzFTW]

I have cooked it and stressed it for 15 minutes using furmark and no arterfacts now xD

Erm, I am a bit weary about the seller.

The title said 9800GT but the description stated 9500GT. He sold 1 to me and should have had 9 available, but doesn't sell it any more.

It also states returns accepted but at the very bottom it states:


All sales are final, No refunds or credits.

No returns will be accepted for defective products if the original packaging is damaged and/or missing accessories.

So I cannot open the packaging to find it defective and send it back. Bit of a double standard don't you think?

 

[CinderzFTW]

Also, this is the card I received!

 

[Cleeecooo]

You can open a claim through Paypal

 

[CinderzFTW]

Hey Cleeecooo xD

Already done it. Rang paypal up, sent them images of the artefacts and the card and they said I will get my money back in the next 2 weeks or so and I just have to send the card back to the idiot who sold it to me!

Put the older 8800gts back in her rig for now... getting her a 5770 or new 6770 on the 23rd along with my new Bit Fenix Shinboi Windowed case I am treating myself too xD

 

[Cleeecooo]

Awesome

 

[CinderzFTW]

Oh yes, the Shinboi is a beautiful case with some nice features. xD

 

[Cleeecooo]

Oh yes, the Shinboi is a beautiful case with some nice features. xD

it's way too small to satisfy me

 

[CinderzFTW]

hehe!

big enough for my hd5770 single slot, atx asrock mobo and arctic freezer 7 pro rev 2 xD

 

[CinderzFTW]

update!

got the card working again! Baked it lol

 

[thezakarum]

Glad the oven tricked worked for you mate.

Whats the requirement for members market again? 250 posts?

Sorry a little off topic.

 

[CinderzFTW]

you should have access to it now... either:

250 posts and 90 days membership

OR

100 posts and 1 years membership

Go to the home page of the forums and it should be 3/4 of the way down dude!

 

[ALXAndy]

Never ever buy a GPU from Ebay, ever.

I bought two from there. Both had been on the cookie tray, both lasted about two days.

 

[CinderzFTW]

yea my misses 9800gt had to have the baking treatment and still working xD

 

[Cleeecooo]

you should have access to it now... either:

250 posts and 90 days membership <--- this only

OR

100 posts and 1 years membership <--- nope

Go to the home page of the forums and it should be 3/4 of the way down dude!