Graphics Card Failure?

mcdilly-willy

mcdilly-willy

New Member
Hey people, nice forum!

I have a major problem....

I was casually playing Simcity 4 yesterday, half way through the game I got the Windows Xp blue screen of death (I have NEVER seen this personally). I thought no more of it, restarted my computer to find that I have no graphics.

There was no safe mode warning, it booted straight into Xp. A pop-up bubble said that my graphics settings were extremely low, and could be modified from there so I did. The graphics had been set back down to the Lowest resolution, 4-bit colour etc. I promptly changed this back up, clicked apply, nothing happened. It seems I cant change the settings via the operating system, which leads me on to think that my graphics card has had a catastrophic failure.

Unfortunately I don't have a spare graphics card to test. Is there anything else I can do?

Any thoughts?
 
There seems to be something wrong with your drivers. Try to boot into safe mode and reinstall your drivers, and try not to overclock if you are doing so.
 
I will try reinstalling the drivers, I doubt it will do anything. The graphics being shown at the moment are worse than that of Windows Xp before I installed the drivers. :confused:
 
Try putting the card in another slot if you have another slot, although I'm guessing it's an AGP card. It sounds like a failing card to me, may also be a failing motherboard..
 
oh god please not the motherboard! No I havent had any warnings for that, I really think its the graphics card, its done well I do have to say. R.I.P. Gforce 4.

Anyone got any cheap graphics cards? :D
 
Did you try changing the settings in the nVidea control pannel?

It does sound like a failed, or faling graphics card, did you try it in another slot? Do you have another one you can borrow to try in your computer?
 
Yeah, always double check by installing it in another system, and if you are really short on cash, you can get a cheap FX5200 off ebay. My MX440 is still kicking strong, ;) , I let the lazy person who didn't bring their computer to my LAN parties use it. :D
 
I had a similar problem were I rebooted after a crash to find the very disgusting 4bit colour mode in operation. Which I could not change back to 32bit

In short it was to do with bad memory corrupting lots of software such as the nvidia driver in this case.

Although I’m not saying your memory is at fault. Please reinstall the correct and up-to-date forceware drivers from www.nvidia.com
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top