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Is this a Monitor or Video Card problem? (Pic)

90% sure that's a faulty graphics card there mate. :(

Might be worth trying a different PSU if you can as they do become less efficient over time. A better option would be to try another 8800GTX and see how that copes.

If it was me I would just buy a new graphics card and see how that works but I'm lazy. :p
 
Prof. Cheese said:
90% sure that's a faulty graphics card there mate. :(

Might be worth trying a different PSU if you can as they do become less efficient over time. A better option would be to try another 8800GTX and see how that copes.

If it was me I would just buy a new graphics card and see how that works but I'm lazy. :p
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Haha, ye I would actually like a new graphics card. What would you guys recommend for around £200?
 
As soon as I saw that image I pretty much expected you to have a 8800gtx causing it, because I recognised it straight away, although it's a bit difficult to make out through my own lines, and I know it's much brighter in person that what it appears as in a photo.

8800gtx here also, I get vertical columns of bright blue dotted lines all over the screen, and usually on whiter backgrounds they are yellow. I get garbled text/symbols plastered over my post/boot screens, and yellow random dots too on them. the blue columns can be visible already in windows logo screen/desktop or start to appear at a random time after reaching desktop, and then usually resulting in lots of blue artifacting dots around the mouse pointer, and eventual full system lockup. With all kinds of weird fun happening on screen. Becomes impossible to go into normal desktop mode (let alone games) without crashing every time - possible to stay in safe mode, but with all the dotted columns present but no crashes. This behaviour comes and goes - and it seems to go away if the pc has been left on constantly for days, it is like the 8800gtx prefers to be heated up to be stable again.

I had all the above problems first about 3 months ago, ended up baking the card,

see: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18119800

lasted 2-3 months without the major problems but during that time I would still get random system lockups/crashes playing left 4 dead 2

see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXQtUtgOzXc

is what usually happens, and then freezes, or screen goes black, appears to go into standby mode, or get nvidia driver blue screen error.

now recently all the same major problems have returned so have been forced back into looking at new cards, been reading on here a lot, tempted for 5850, but wondering if the gtx 460 will be a good one to get when it comes out.

I think you trying a different monitor is luck and not related, I'd say the problems will return on that different monitor, and they will most likely get worse as time goes on, not certain though.

Don't waste your time baking the card is my advice, imo it's not worth the hassle, and it will pollute your kitchen (at least for a couple of hours).

I tried a lot of different things to try and fix the problem and rule things out, wasn't able to try another graphics card yet, and from all the symptoms, it points to the graphics card being at fault. Just a bit sad I can't save my ol 8800gtx. :rolleyes:
 
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