Help please

icehot

icehot

icehot

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Hey,

Last night I was playing trackmania when all of a sudden it froze. I then ctrl+alt+deleted to close trackmania and the desktop had been reset to the lowest of resolutions accompanied by an error message stating the nvidia display driver had failed. So I immediately thought, "ok just update the drivers and all will be fine", but that wasn't the case. The same thing happened but this time the resolution had not changed and there was no error message. This happens with all games I try to play.

What I've done to try and solve this problem:

- updated drivers, also used older drivers
- reseated gfx card
- ran a memory test
- system restore
- gfx card temperature has been monitor and is not a concern

Now I think it's also worth mentioning that this problem started occuring after I swapped my monitor input from DVI to VGA. I've swapped it back but the problem persists. I'm starting to wonder if I've possibly damaged the gfx card while fiddling around with the different cables.

Any help/advice given is always appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Sean. :)
 
Here are my specs incase some of you were wondering :)

GeForce 8800GT
intel core 2 duo E4500 @ 3.3ghz
2GB Geil RAM
Gigabyte P35C-DS3R
 
try running everything at stock and see if it still crashes, it may be your OC has become unstable (can happen overtime)
whilst it says its gfx I find windows has this habit of just blaming everything on the gfx if it cant actually work it out
 
ok so I've got another reading for my gfx card temperature...which is a lot different from before:

systemtemps.jpg


Is it just me or is that a bit high? and it spikes up a few degrees when I start playing a game.
 
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