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Argonath RPG Community => Hardware/Software support => Resolved issues => Topic started by: Chris_Knight on July 31, 2012, 05:15:47 pm
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Hello .
I have an issue with my Videocard : Nvidia 8600 GT.
The issue is that not long ago during playing games it just drop me purple screen and everything stuck,I could only restart pc but at that certain situation when it restarted I had pixels all over my screen and couldn't turn windows back on,but after cool off ,pixels were gone and I could turn pc.
However every next time entering an game I again faced purple screen,restart,pixels.
I can watch videos,use forums but not play the games.
I have two fans doing perfect job at cooling down my videocard as temperature remains between 52-53 and during playing 65-70 .
I had issue before that my down fan wasn't working so it might have overheated before and caused an damage to my videocard.
However I do not face pixels on any regular basis,when ever watching videos,being on desktop ,reading forums.
So question is ,does anyone have clue whats going on and what causes this issue?
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I got the same problem with a 8800 GT and the issue is very simple to understand: your graphic card is most likely fried. Would you mind to post screenshots of the so called pixels and purple stuff ? It will allow us to give a clear view on what's wrong.
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When I get those pixels and purple thing it's at time when my PC freezes,however I'll try google it up.
(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS2465ebQT6_ydAEcfKhZ7llzYsKIJ_mcbH0wwNf6NR__gA7tf0WE3qVNaH)
Afther the crash ^ .
(http://i47.tinypic.com/oucuwo.jpg)
When I try play the game ^ .
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Your GPU is dead.
If it no longer has warranty, I'd try out this trick which I know has fixed my friend's 8800GT twice. :razz:
http://www.addictivetips.com/hardware/fix-your-graphics-card-by-baking-in-oven/ (http://www.addictivetips.com/hardware/fix-your-graphics-card-by-baking-in-oven/)
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You can bake it if you don't mind it fucking up again later, but you should probably buy a new GPU.
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Your GPU is dead.
If it no longer has warranty, I'd try out this trick which I know has fixed my friend's 8800GT twice. :razz:
http://www.addictivetips.com/hardware/fix-your-graphics-card-by-baking-in-oven/ (http://www.addictivetips.com/hardware/fix-your-graphics-card-by-baking-in-oven/)
And could you actually use internet browsers,watch movies and use forums while it was dead? Just to make sure symptoms are similar. As about oven part,it's even more expensive than videocard it self as I don't have oven either. :gd:
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I don't have oven
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We can see on the screenshots some visual artifact. As it has been said, this is typical of a GPU about to die. Yes you still can watch movies and surf on Internet, but you cannot play any game properly. Monitor your other components to avoid any further troubles (especially the CPU).
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Your GPU is dead.
This.
Get a new one. That's just about it.
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Currently I'm holding above water with my fluffy VGA wire with 120mb graphics,which let's me play samp with 5 fps.
I can't afford new graphic card and it may take up to three months to get one,so RIP. :(
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As they all said, dead GPU.
Have you/had you recently opened your PC up at any point?
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You could probably ask a friend to let you use his oven or something, man.
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When you switch on a game, the video mode of the graphics card switches, and in this case switches to a mode that is defective.
Use a program that visually displays all your screen modes and find out which one crash, then try to avid those in playing games.
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As they all said, dead GPU.
Have you/had you recently opened your PC up at any point?
Yes PC was being opened after defect by master who fixed electricity cone so fan starts work again .
Post Merge: July 31, 2012, 07:39:59 pm
When you switch on a game, the video mode of the graphics card switches, and in this case switches to a mode that is defective.
Use a program that visually displays all your screen modes and find out which one crash, then try to avid those in playing games.
What program would it be?
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What fan wasn't working?
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What fan wasn't working?
At moment I had only one fan for videocard which was under it.
(http://www.techfuels.com/attachments/graphic-displays/1395d1208001241-nvidia-geforce-8600gt-256mb-graphic-card-nvidia-geforce-8600gt-256mb-graphic-card.jpg)
Exact picture of my videocard and it's main fan. After electricity cone wasn't sending electricity to my fan it was stopping which made my videocard overheat and damaged it especially in such summer temperature.
:ps:Master said it should be fine for next two or three months till I need get a new one,but it acted same after hour I received it back,even with second new fresh fan. Both fans now work all fine and hold my temperature fine under 53 degrees.
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There is exactly how you managed to kill the graphics card..
You cooked the board by running it with faulty cooling.
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There is exactly how you managed to kill the graphics card..
You cooked the board by running it with faulty cooling.
The irony that cone costed 0,50$ and now I'm suppose to pay 50,00$ for new card.
However I'll give shot of Gandalfs idea as I could run world of tanks on window mode but when I took it full screen it crashed.
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Tried using the other DVI port or w/e it is?
You never know :razz:
About the baking in oven part, thats for cracking solder really, if baking in an oven temporarily works, having the card reballed/reflowed would be a more permanent solution.
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I actually gave shot of Gandalf idea and find out that during window mode my games are able to run but on fullscreen not.
Which probably displays the exact part of damaged area.
However yesterday I had few world of tank matches on fullscreen and it was all fine,however when I touched my videocard it was so hot you could literally bake eggs on it.
So right now I'm trying move my second fan accordingly to temperature of an exact videocard side .
So it's not dead and works ,however I have doubt of any program finding my real videocard temperature as most likely it displays false information or my PC falsely detects it and shuts my pc down via purple screen.
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Having more than 1 fan on the GPU doesn't make a large difference, what matters is the area that the heat-sinc covers and is in contact with because draws heat from the GPU. The fans are there to then cool down the heat-sinc which in turn cools the GPU.
A fan blowing in the GPU without a heat-sinc is pretty pointless.
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Fixing Nvidia 8800GTS 320MB with oven trick (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf3yMzmgT90#)
Bake it?
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He has no oven...
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Played abit with my fan,found perfect place for it and now the heat remains all cool and I again can play games carefully monitoring the heat. So even if it's fried,it still does it's job ,at least for now. :razz:
So lowered drivers for more breathing,added fan on better place ,increased fan speed to max and now all works fine.
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Make sure the heatpaste/thermalpaste on between the GPU and Heatsinc is alright and not burnt/gone, that will cause the card to get extremely hot.
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Make sure the heatpaste/thermalpaste on between the GPU and Heatsinc is alright and not burnt/gone, that will cause the card to get extremely hot.
No it's fine at the moment as I play whole day today and temperature reaches 69 degrees max.
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Could you pot a picture of the GpU?
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If you take some pictures, take of both sides of the card, and preferably a large and clear picture.
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I do not have any way to make photo except my phone camera,but I do not have USB wire to put it in PC.
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About the baking in oven part, thats for cracking solder really, if baking in an oven temporarily works, having the card reballed/reflowed would be a more permanent solution.
I did that to my 8800gt few years back and got it work like a week or two and then it broke again, so yeah its temporary solution... After that i just bought new one.