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For the last couple of weeks I've had the occasional crash on my PC. Since I only play Space Marine and Wrath of Heroes I mistakenly put this down to bugs in those games and/or my card being over three years old.
However, a couple of days ago I booted up and got artifacts during post plus a destop wallpaper in very low res. Reseated the card (an 8800GTX), reinstalled the drivers...same thing.
Took my RAM out a stick at a time and swapped them around. No change.
Popped my old X1950 Emergency Card in place. Machine boots fine. Except in Safe Mode....in which it passes seamlessly through BIOS and the loading of Windows but displays the same very low res desktop (I had removed the NVIDIA Drivers and installed ATI Legacy)
It crashes out of SM and plays Wrath of Heroes with pixellation across the lower half of the screen but since it is using old drivers and just old I'm not that surprised.
I'm pretty certain that my 8800 is frakked and I might as well try the Classic Oven Bake but can anybody tell me why the X1950 is behaving as it is? It has been carefully boxed up in my attic for the last three years. I'm pretty sure it was good when I put it away.
Rest of my system:
E8400
p5Q Green Mobo
8800GTX
2x2GB Corsair
520W ANTEC
640GB +500GB HDDs
Oh, and could anybody recommend a decent replacement for the 8800? I can stretch to £200.
However, a couple of days ago I booted up and got artifacts during post plus a destop wallpaper in very low res. Reseated the card (an 8800GTX), reinstalled the drivers...same thing.
Took my RAM out a stick at a time and swapped them around. No change.
Popped my old X1950 Emergency Card in place. Machine boots fine. Except in Safe Mode....in which it passes seamlessly through BIOS and the loading of Windows but displays the same very low res desktop (I had removed the NVIDIA Drivers and installed ATI Legacy)
It crashes out of SM and plays Wrath of Heroes with pixellation across the lower half of the screen but since it is using old drivers and just old I'm not that surprised.
I'm pretty certain that my 8800 is frakked and I might as well try the Classic Oven Bake but can anybody tell me why the X1950 is behaving as it is? It has been carefully boxed up in my attic for the last three years. I'm pretty sure it was good when I put it away.
Rest of my system:
E8400
p5Q Green Mobo
8800GTX
2x2GB Corsair
520W ANTEC
640GB +500GB HDDs
Oh, and could anybody recommend a decent replacement for the 8800? I can stretch to £200.
