6800GT Problems!

[Paulj]

Hey people of OCUK

I was playing a casual game of BF2 earlier and suddenly my monitor went to standby.....so i pressed the restart button on my pc, when windows booted all i got was a very scrambled display......so i thought great, RMA time.
Came back about 10mins later, booted up again, all is good
So is my card borked?

Leadtech 6800GT (no overclock)
Athlon XP 2600
1 Gb RAM
etc

I'll get back to some BF2 right now to see if it still runs it

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Could be borked, id keep an eye on it see if it happens again.

 

[Minstadave]

Could be a heat issue, and the 10 minutes you left it allowed it to cool down, what temps are you getting in games?

Scrambelled POST screen usually means the memory is dead/dying though.

 

[!n$oMniA]

A clan mate had a similar problem. There was so much dust in the heatsink that the fan wasnt pushing much air across it and when he checked the temp it was nearly 100 degrees, caused artifacting, however did not have scrambled screen.

 

[Paulj]

just had another mini session of BF2, checked the temps as suggested and the core temp was 90 degrees it only used to be 60 max!

So im guessing i just shoot pressurised air into the heatsink/fan to remove the dust?

 

[Minstadave]

Take the heatsink off, reapply thermal paste, give it a good hoover, then stick it back on and see if that sorts it.

 

[paradigm]

Thermal paste may be well past its best.

 

[H@mmer]

I have the same make of card. The filter above the fan is really fine. I find once every six weeks I have to power off and run my finger across the filter and off comes a huge ball of dust. The filter is good at stopping dust getting into the fan. No need for anything else, apart from getting the rest of the dust out of the case.