Hi,
I recently bought a refurb. dell PC off ebay. It has a Dell proprietary graphics card installed with a DVI output.
I have the PC in my loft (not hot) and a monitor in my kitchen, the cable run is 13m. I purchased a DVI/Ethernet adapter and have run CAT5e cable from the PC to the monitor.
When connected and powered up everything ran fine for about 2 hours, then the display flickered, an error message appeared saying something along the lines of "display driver has stopped" and then BSOD came up. Windows 7 crashed and restarted. All was ok... for about 20 minutes.
Then some lines appeared on the display and then BSOD again, PC restarted and the windows splash screen came up. After about 10secs on the splash screen the monitor showed "no input detected" and since I have not had any display.
Is it safe to assume that the GPU has failed?
The card has either 128/512Mb on board, if I buy a 1Gb card is this likely to solve the problem, or is it deeper than that?
The PC has a 280W PSU, would upgrading this make any difference?
Thanks in advance,
I recently bought a refurb. dell PC off ebay. It has a Dell proprietary graphics card installed with a DVI output.
I have the PC in my loft (not hot) and a monitor in my kitchen, the cable run is 13m. I purchased a DVI/Ethernet adapter and have run CAT5e cable from the PC to the monitor.
When connected and powered up everything ran fine for about 2 hours, then the display flickered, an error message appeared saying something along the lines of "display driver has stopped" and then BSOD came up. Windows 7 crashed and restarted. All was ok... for about 20 minutes.
Then some lines appeared on the display and then BSOD again, PC restarted and the windows splash screen came up. After about 10secs on the splash screen the monitor showed "no input detected" and since I have not had any display.
Is it safe to assume that the GPU has failed?
The card has either 128/512Mb on board, if I buy a 1Gb card is this likely to solve the problem, or is it deeper than that?
The PC has a 280W PSU, would upgrading this make any difference?
Thanks in advance,
