Hi,
Basically my brothers computer had a major graphics card error at the start of windows, I managed to fix it by safe mode and un-installing graphics driver. Then when I would try and reinstall the latest driver when windows boots it would go to windows starting screen (xp SP3) and just before user logon screen it would just go black. I managed to get it working with a really old nvidia driver (182.50) but it still wont load games, or heavy GPU programs. If I try and start a game it the lot of pixels will go weird, it shows the colour but not the colour its meant to show on certain places of the background and program and then the computer like freezes and I have to restart to gain control.
I've checked the mobo and GPU for physical damage but I cant see anything.
If anyone could help would be grateful.
(put this in general hardware because I'm not sure its the GPU that is the problem and I don't have a clue what could be)
PC Specs:
Asus p5q deluxe mobo
GTX 260
4gb OCZ reaper 800mhz
OCZ stealthxtream 600watt PSU
Intel e6300 core 2 duo
Basically my brothers computer had a major graphics card error at the start of windows, I managed to fix it by safe mode and un-installing graphics driver. Then when I would try and reinstall the latest driver when windows boots it would go to windows starting screen (xp SP3) and just before user logon screen it would just go black. I managed to get it working with a really old nvidia driver (182.50) but it still wont load games, or heavy GPU programs. If I try and start a game it the lot of pixels will go weird, it shows the colour but not the colour its meant to show on certain places of the background and program and then the computer like freezes and I have to restart to gain control.
I've checked the mobo and GPU for physical damage but I cant see anything.
If anyone could help would be grateful.
(put this in general hardware because I'm not sure its the GPU that is the problem and I don't have a clue what could be)
PC Specs:
Asus p5q deluxe mobo
GTX 260
4gb OCZ reaper 800mhz
OCZ stealthxtream 600watt PSU
Intel e6300 core 2 duo
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