Friends 6800GT Borked?

[Scania]

My mates 6800 GT has started to display lots of full stops across his "POST" screen on boot up, followed by blue lines, akin to a VCR's test screen whilst XP is booting up.

The machine crashes with a BSOD "Page Fault in non paged area" on attempt to install drivers.

In safe mode however, the screen is fine.

I'm assuming its shafted, although I was going to test the card in my machine first. Before I do, do I run any risk of damaging my pc by testing his card?

And, assuming it is indeed borked, I'm considering a 7800 AGP as a replacement for him.

Is this card well matched to a 3ghz p4 Prescott (Sct 478)? he has 2GB Geil 3200DDR on an Abit Ic-7 mobo he plays Battlefield 2 at high settings with AA & AF and absolutely nothing else!

Any thoughts appreciated.

 

[robmac]

use driver cleaner to remove the gpu drivers then install latest nvidia drivers, may help??

 

["andy"]

is it just me or have loads of people been posting about broken 6800s this week and last (including me )

 

[Scania]

is it just me or have loads of people been posting about broken 6800s this week and last (including me )

Well, tried the driver cleaner, no change, popped the GT into my machine, with the same result! - I often get the feeling PC kit is designed to self destruct after a year or so, I have a box of dead PC bits (I build pc's for friends and help with general issues) motherboards, gfx cards, soundcards etc etc etc.

Funny how ,in my experience, I've never had a duff CPU nor Monitor, Joystick Modem etc, yet kit such mobo's gfx etc seems to die all too frequently!

Its a conspiracy imo!


He's not so glum, we went out and bought an AGP 7800GS.....

Cheers.