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Graphics card dead?

mindrot

mindrot

mindrot

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Hi,

I switched my PC on this morning and left it for around 5-10 minutes. When I returned to it I noticed that it was stuck on the screensaver and was glitching (I couldn't get back to my desktop by moving the mouse around). I rebooted and noticed a weird red pixel patten on the boot screen. When I got back into Windows (Win 7 x64) the resolution had dropped down to 800x600 and I wan't able to change this. I re-installed the drivers and this sorted things out (even the red pixel patten on the boot screen was gone). Again I left the PC for a while and it happened again.

I'm guessing this is a graphics card issue :confused: I currently have a GeForce 8800 GT and an Abit IP35 Pro motherboard. If this is a graphics card rpblem would my motherboard support a 9800? I'm planning on buying a new PC at some stage so I don't really want to spend too much money on a new card.

Any help would be great.
 
I decided to trouble shoot this last night and removed 4gb of ram as I've been having loads of blue screens (one of the reasons for needning to get a new PC). Anyway, this would appear to have solved the issue... for now.
 
Okay... that worked for for a couple of days, but now it happened again after removing the Ram. It's strange as removing the Ram helped for a couple of days, but now not :confused:
 
How much are you looking to spend on a graphics card? Don't go for the 9800 if you can get an ATi HD 5770 when its on offer again as I can see overclockers bumped the price up from £77 to £99 >.< or even the HD 6770 which is around £83.99 at the moment on overclockers.
 
Thanks. Probably in the area of £100 as it'll only be temporary, until I get a new PC.

I'm generally avoiding ATI though, as some of the software that I use, like Mari doesn't support ATI cards (even though the 9800 isn't officially supported by the software it still works).
 
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Well that is rather odd, in any case the now rebranded AMD HD series offer better value for money along with performance, I got an AMD HD 6870 1gb overclocked for £109 so im happy.
 
Good stuff. I'm possibly going to look at the refurbished cards here over the weekend. It'll only be a temp solution anyway.
 
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