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Answer» hello,
Im a newb so bare with me please. I have been having a weird problem. When ever I look at pictures for awhile or play a game my screen will change to mixed static COLORS and then I wont be able to move the mouse and the screen goes black. Its not the monitor because I checked it with a different one. and it only happens when the times I said it did.
my specs are:
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+
video card : NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP/2002 Professional
My power supply unit is antec performance true 550. 550w max
Im not sure what else to say. I did UPDATE my drivers a while back and then I tryed reloading the old ones to see if it was that but it doesnt seem to be the problem. I also updated my BIOS to see if that helped and it hasnt. :-?
ThanksIt may Be You GFX Card is over Heating.
The Big Cards can Get Pretty Hot even when your Not Doing much.(Mine was over Heating in my New Computer At Desktop, i had to Increase the Air flow in my Case)
Has it always Happened , or is it Just a Recent Event?..
Open up your Case and See if its Full of Dust, your fans may be a little Clogged up
It could be Worse Tho , i might be a Hardware Problem, but lets hope notTry unplugging and reseating the card first.
Make sure all fans are spinning. You may want to test the heat theory by taking the side cover off and blowing a FAN directly in there. Game away for an hour or two and see what happens.
Is the card a new addition? How long has this been happening?I tryed blowing out the fan and there was a lot of dust and even a big peice of dust came out but didnt fix the problem. I have had the video card since I first built the computer like summer of 04. the problem started about a month and a half ago. I checked my video card fan and it is spinning. I have 3 fans on the top of my computer and two in the back. also the cpu is water cold. all fans spin. the temp on my cpu never gets higher then about 100F it stays around 80s. so when you say unplug the video card you want me to take it out of the motherboard and unplug the wires to it? I also tryed removing one of my two rams(512mb each) and see if that was the problem and the tryed the next one and still the same problem. also you say try gaming for a hour lol it sucks Ill go in to oblivion and right when it loads my save it does this. :-?Quote so when you say unplug the video card you want me to take it out of the motherboard and unplug the wires to it?
Yes. Did you try the other SUGGESTION?
QuoteYou may want to test the heat theory by taking the side cover off and blowing a fan directly in there.
IS your Geforce 6800 made by glacier, Ive know 2 people you have Big problems with 6800's after a few months. and they were both Glacier's.. i don't think the GT model was Very Stable either.
I red on Urban Dictionary and Wiki , that a Panboy was a person who Hated some thing and told Everyone he new that a particular thing was Very Very bad because he don't like. now I'm not trying to be a panboy... but i have seen people have problem with a Specific Brad and model of that card, i myself use nvidia and perfer them over ATI.
But i think you might have been unlucky and got one of the Bad ones.I have had it for 2 years now and im not sure if they made it. My parents have at there HOUSE GeForce 2 MX400 that they got a long time ago that didnt work for there computer. Can I even use this on my computer and how would i go about doing that. delete old drivers then install video card then drivers for it. I was thinking of doing that to see if it was the video card thats the problem. is there anyway to tell for sure that its the video card with out buying a new one?
Try the suspect video card on another computer.
The older one would work on yours, but I don't know what that would prove.
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