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Possible driver issue

pigeonmafia

pigeonmafia

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Hey, I've got a lil bit of a problem.

For some reason, if I have any gpu drivers installed, this is what I get after I type in my password and log on:



However, if I uninstall the drivers and disable window's auto driver install, everything is fine (apart from the obvious caused by the lack of drivers).

Can anyone shed some light on this? I've tried new drivers, old drivers that used to work, windows default drivers, and I've also used drivers cleaners etc and installing in safe mode.

Thanks!

PS, I'm new here, so hi everyone!
 
Woops! That woulda helped, sorry

Asus 8800GT, the 512 version. Not over/underclocked, and never has been. Currently running windows 7 professional 64 bit aswell, if that helps :)
 
Looks like a faulty gfx card to me. Driver issues presenting display corruption like that are rare. Is the card in warranty? Can you test it in another machine? Do you have another card to test with?

Also, your full system specification may be of some use.
 
I've had the card for a while, what could have caused it to just go now?

Sadly, it's out of warrenty, and I have no other pc to test it with. Nor another card :/

Q6600
XFX 650i ultra
2gb Ram
creative soundblaster XFI
ASUS 8800GT
Seasonic 500W powersupply
 
They can fail due to heat cycles, but more often than not it's just time. It's hard to say which part of the card has given up in this case, as it's not typical corruption observed with bad VRAM.

If you can't test it with another card or on another PC yourself, do you have a mate who'd be willing to lend you a hand? Other than that, since it has no warranty, it's new card time I'm afraid.

Oh, one more thing. To totally rule out the monitor, try a different one (if you have one?) and try a different cable to the monitor (e.g. a replacement or VGA if you're using DVI or vice versa).
 
Do you reccomend any cards in particular? I'm not really looking to spend more than £200 if possible. Could I get a new card with better performance than my 8800GT, that's still compatable with the 650i? I've been told cards that use pci express 2.0 are still compatable with pci e x16 v1?

I do have another monitor, I'll try it out later to rule that out. I'd prefer not to have to shell out for a new card if possible...
 
Your options for new are, as I see it:

ATI Radeon 5770 ~£130

ATI Radeon 5850 ~£215

nVidia GeForce GTX460 768MB ~£150

nVidia GeForce GTX460 1024MB ~£190

They'll all work on your motherboard as far as I'm aware.

Do try another monitor, I've had Hanns.G ones go like that in the past, though I would suspect the gfx primarily.
 
Well, I'm completely confused.

I tested a new monitor without drivers: worked fine. So, I reinstalled the lastest drivers from nvidia. New monitor works fine. Restarted several times to make sure.

So, I'm thinking this means it's the monitor. So, I try my old hannspree... and it's now working fine with these drivers. These are the same drivers that I tried using before to remedy the green fuzz, not even redownloaded or anything.

What in the hell
 
alexhull24 said:
How were you connecting? May be a dodgy cable that's moved.
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that would be my first port of call also as you mentioned you only get that "effect" when you log into windows, meaning post up/bios are normal.

Usually when a card is borked you see the result of it from the moment you press the power button lol
 
If it was a faulty cable, why would it only give me artifacts after log on?

And wouldn't it always give the artifacts, drivers or no drivers?

Because yes, I was using the same cable and moving it to the different monitor
 
Okay, so it happened again. This time, after I had left the pc on for a while.

I let it cool down, swapped over to a new screen, and everything was okay. I then tested to see what would happen if I ran something graphics card heavy: everything was okay until the game started to render, and it died.

Does this mean it could be a heat issue? So the reason it dies after log on is due to it having to process the background + windows areo etc etc?
 
Okay, so:

What kind of connectors will my psu need? I seem to recall the 8800GT uses a 6pin and an 8 pin (correct me if I'm wrong), and the GTX460 uses two 6pins. Will an 8pin - 6pin adapter work?
 
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