Graphics card problem (I think).

Seiken

Seiken

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Hey guys,

Whenever I try to play a video or a game or anything infact my monitors will turn off displaying the "no signal" message. It first happened when I was loading maps on F.E.A.R Combat a week or so ago, then it happened just as we were pulling Huhuran in World of Warcraft. Now I can't launch WoW without it happening and can't even watch a movie.

I updated my nForce drivers, my display drivers, I ran memtest, I virus scanned. I really don't know what to do anymore.

My PC is pretty old now.

I have an A64 3200+, 1gb of GEIL 3200, MSI K8N Neo Platinum motherboard and a GeForce 6800 LE 128mb graphics card.

This never happened up until recently. I really don't know what could have happened. It really intensified today for reasons I'm unaware of to the point where making this thread is pretty much the limit of my PC usage.

Has anyone heard of this problem, have any solutions at all?

Please don't tell me my card is knacked. It's not even that old. :(

I will probably reformat tomorrow.

Thanks for looking and any replies.
 
Is it no signal? or signal out of range?

I'm aware you can set the refresh rate in WoW above anything your monitor can run, stopping you from running the game without deleting your settings file.
 
No signal.

I deleted my settings and it helped until I actually loaded up the game and go to see my character for about 3 seconds and then it happened again.

I can't even watch a video, I tried to put on a movie instead but WMP took about 15 seconds to load and then it happened again.
 
Your psu may be a cheap one and not up to the job,as most draw is on load playing games,if you have a spare one give it a try.
Another option is drivercleaner pro (free) http://www.drivercleaner.net/professional.php.It gets rids of gfx driver leftovers which can cause problems.
Have you also tried to unlock the 6800`s pipes? or overclocked?,might be worth returning to stock levels.
Hopefully its not your 6800le,try it in another machine if you can before you do anything.Hope this helps cheers
 
luminous said:
Your psu may be a cheap one and not up to the job,as most draw is on load playing games,if you have a spare one give it a try.
Another option is drivercleaner pro (free) http://www.drivercleaner.net/professional.php.It gets rids of gfx driver leftovers which can cause problems.
Have you also tried to unlock the 6800`s pipes? or overclocked?,might be worth returning to stock levels.
Hopefully its not your 6800le,try it in another machine if you can before you do anything.Hope this helps cheers
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I have a tagan 420 watt PSU. I did try drivercleaner to get rid of the drivers second time round.

Back when I first got the card I overclocked it a bit but I got artifacts in the benchmarks so I reset it back to default values and left it be, that was a while ago now.
 
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