Hi I think my graphics card is on the blink but im not 100% sure so I thought i'd ask here for peoples opinions.
A couple of days ago I was playing Elder Scrolls 4 normally but when I shut the game down and returned to XP all I got was the mouse cursor on a black screen, when I launched explorer or anything it looked as though it was loading but the screen was black and the only way to get it back to normal was to reboot the computer. Over this weekend I have been playing the game again but now the computer randomly reboots itself without warning and sometimes seems to take up to 10 minutes longer to load my saved games, now I thought it was a memory error but I have been told it could be the graphics card. Does this sound like a gfx card issue, is there any way to test it?
XP seems to be a little slower also running applications, seems to be a second delay in the response time then the computer will pick up then a delay again and so on. I have ran antivirus scans and spyware scans both come up fine.
Im running: A8N-E Sli Deluxe, AMD 64 3Ghz, 2GB Ram, 160GB HDD, SB Audigy SE, XFX Force 7800GTX XXX Edition on Windows XP with everything patched up to the latest and all drivers up to date.
Any advice would be greatly appriciated
A couple of days ago I was playing Elder Scrolls 4 normally but when I shut the game down and returned to XP all I got was the mouse cursor on a black screen, when I launched explorer or anything it looked as though it was loading but the screen was black and the only way to get it back to normal was to reboot the computer. Over this weekend I have been playing the game again but now the computer randomly reboots itself without warning and sometimes seems to take up to 10 minutes longer to load my saved games, now I thought it was a memory error but I have been told it could be the graphics card. Does this sound like a gfx card issue, is there any way to test it?
XP seems to be a little slower also running applications, seems to be a second delay in the response time then the computer will pick up then a delay again and so on. I have ran antivirus scans and spyware scans both come up fine.
Im running: A8N-E Sli Deluxe, AMD 64 3Ghz, 2GB Ram, 160GB HDD, SB Audigy SE, XFX Force 7800GTX XXX Edition on Windows XP with everything patched up to the latest and all drivers up to date.
Any advice would be greatly appriciated
