Is this a hardware failure or Software issue? Any help appreciated

[sarge78]

Hi all,

Can anyone confirm that my 8600gt is broken? See image below.

This happened when I connected the PC to an old CRT TV via S-Video, after an hour I turned the screen off (to save power) but when I switched it back on again there was no display and the computer had frozen.

After resetting the computer (with LCD screen) the display had turned itself into a patchwork quilt?!?

I tried reinstalling the drivers (no joy) however it works fine with the basic Windows vga drivers? Does anyone know why? My guess would be that the dirver doesn't utilize things like onboard mem etc

Many thanks.

Ps,
If it is a hardware problem, My advice would be to stay away from 1980's 'pile of cr*p' junk TVs.

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[helmutcheese]

Looks like the Cards Memory, seen it before, hard to say why it ok with no drivers only OS's prob as not running fully.

Doubt it had anything to do with your TV, just bad lucky and timing.

 

[Teaf]

Would he be able to take a screenshot of it though if it was hardware related and actually causing a problem with the signal to the monitor? I wouldn't have thought he'd be able to take a screenshot of that, but I could be wrong.

 

[helmutcheese]

I also used to get that with my 6800Ultra when overclocked high on the Memory and due to 2 crappy "Y" shaped molex adapters the power would cut and corrupt my bios, I would need refash cards bios and after I got rid of the adapters and plugged in 2 lines from PSU is was fine forever till sold it, but I was getting warning on screen about lack of power to card, you should check the Event Viewer in the Nvidia driver or at its source in XP admin tools in control panel.

 

[sarge78]

Thanks helmutcheese, I think your right. The basic windows drivers hasn't listed any onboard memory in the hardware manager.
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[chaparral]

Looks like my broken x1900xt-x card which has blow memory chip/s

 

[sarge78]

I also used to get that with my 6800Ultra when overclocked high on the Memory and due to 2 crappy "Y" shaped molex adapters the power would cut and corrupt my bios, I would need refash cards bios and after I got rid of the adapters and plugged in 2 lines from PSU is was fine forever till sold it, but I was getting warning on screen about lack of power to card, you should check the Even Viewer in the Nvidia driver or at its source in XP admin tools in cotrol panel.

The device manager/event viewer lists it as working OK, How do I Flash/reset the cards BIOS?
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[LoadsaMoney]

Memory's borked by the looks of it.

 

[helmutcheese]

Sarge just RMA it, it prob is the Memory not a corrupted bios as the Event Viewer is clear.

 

[sarge78]

Will do, Thanks Guys.
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