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please help 8800 gtx oc, has stoped working

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please help 8800 gtx oc, has stoped working - Update

Hi guy I am on my old radeon x850xt

I purchased a Geforce BFG 8800 gtx OC from OCUK

my New new pc working fine for days was on this this morning and my Pc froze then nothing would work

I turned off and when I tried to turn back on the screen would not come back on not even for me to go into bios or any tihng.

I though it might be Mobo or PSU but I pluged my Old ATI X850 XT in and that is what I am using now

when 8800gtx was working fine I turned my PC one the noise it made was "DEEED" like normal now if it is pluged in it makes a Noise "DEEED DE DE"

any body know what wrong? ram back to BFG? card died :( man I am so depressed

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ad0m said:
Hi guy I am on my old radeon x850xt

I purchased a Geforce BFG 8800 gtx OC from OCUK

my New new pc working fine for days was on this this morning and my Pc froze then nothing would work

I turned off and when I tried to turn back on the screen would not come back on not even for me to go into bios or any tihng.

I though it might be Mobo or PSU but I pluged my Old ATI X850 XT in and that is what I am using now

when 8800gtx was working fine I turned my PC one the noise it made was "DEEED" like normal now if it is pluged in it makes a Noise "DEEED DE DE"

any body know what wrong? ram back to BFG? card died :( man I am so depressed
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sad:(
this deee de de de means i think card problem......reapeting deee deeee deee means memory problems ...so RMA time? or i could be wrong!
maybe PSU to weak rest of rig? CPU was @ ?
 
ty for reply

2x2gb DDR gskill ram,
Quad Core Q6600
850 Coolermaster Power Suply
EVGA 680i sli


crikey I never though I could bt as down as this =(
 
It sounds like the card has died, but you should try it in another rig to make sure.

It's always best to double-check before rma'ing, because you'll be even more depressed if they send it back as 'ok' and charge you a testing fee.
 
Sir Random said:
It sounds like the card has died, but you should try it in another rig to make sure.

It's always best to double-check before rma'ing, because you'll be even more depressed if they send it back as 'ok' and charge you a testing fee.
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What Sir Random said ^
Your PSU should be fine. The 1000W model performed very well indeed: http://www.jonnyguru.com/review_details.php?id=114&page_num=2
 
OK OK SOME THING VERY STRANGE AND ODD

I reformatted My HDD with my old card once i reformatted I put (8800 Gtx oc) back in and it worked fine

I downloaded drivers again for video card, all seemed ok, then I installed some other drivers a(this is all for Vista 32) and My PC froze Again I press reset and Well Same problem as above card seems dead but its not..

So I have taken it out and put the old one back in and Now writing this? any one have any Ideas? GFX drivers?
 
Try using driver cleaner to clean out nvidia drivers and then reinstall
latest drivers. If this does not work then try using driver cleaner and an
older set of drivers. Sounds like a driver issue to me if it worked on 1 set
of drivers but not the second drivers you used
 
this is exactly what mine does to my pc except it goes DEEED and then freezes with the fan on max.

and i used drivercleaner platinum, even paid for it! and ran it 3x to get rid of ati drivers!
 
Go back to using the first set of drivers (that worked), and don't install the new drivers. If it keeps working with the older ones, then you know it's a driver problem.
 
Even if it’s a driver issue the bios should be accessible.

To me it looks like an intermittent fault but the drivercleaner older drivers idea sounds like a good one.

Try and find someone willing to try the card in their rig and see if it works with the latest drivers. Obviously it’s best to be 100% sure you’ve a faulty card before you RMA it.

Your PSU should be more than capable to handle your card.
 
OK I have done what advise i have been given so far And the CARD is in Now Working...

For how long I dont know.. I am expecting my Pc to freeze soon or maybe later and then same problem... no drivers have been installed yet just running basic...

Still think card is knacker'd?
 
this is an iffy one, if card fails a system boot then its a card fault, can;t see how this card is working in windows without drivers then dies when drivers are installed.

something is deffo not right there at all.
 
atrange I havnt installed any drivers but in device manager i have version 7.15.11.5824 of nvidia.. odd vista siad it was destected card but i never physicly installed any driver...

oh and btw no crash yet :D --- proably shouldn't speek so soon
 
So the card only works without any drivers installed? ie, only with basic VGA drivers for Windows?. Does it run games ok?

I think the driver install is activating the faulty hardware that the basic driver install doesn't use which is causing the card to fall over as its doing (although I'm no expert).

Still double check it on another rig - if it does the same then its obviously a faulty card - either way its not good if you cant install the appropriate drivers to get the best out of it.
 
need to check temps on card. i rekon, once you install proper drivers, aero 3d interface in vista is activated, card overheats and freezes up and subsequent reboots result in failure to power on till card is removed.

its a theory, but check if you can see how hot the card is running.
 
will try find a rig for 8800 but they are very limited.. I will see how it runs games right now. hope for best
 
Cyber-Mav said:
need to check temps on card. i rekon, once you install proper drivers, aero 3d interface in vista is activated, card overheats and freezes up and subsequent reboots result in failure to power on till card is removed.

its a theory, but check if you can see how hot the card is running.
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A very good point - should have thought of that as I've had overheating probs with a graphics card some time ago and thats what happened - screen would freeze and then constant beeping on reboot. It was down to the fan on the card had stopped working.

Check the fan on the card is spinning and try it without the case side panel on.
 
Fan Is running arlight, but not as fast as I thought it would run at.. trying to find a way to check my card temp.. becoming some what of a daunting task.
 
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