help video card issue

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bigl2007

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ok i have a xfx geforce 260 GTX and for some reason the past few days it was alright til i really noticed that my screen went black on me last night and then when i turned it back on after it wouldnt display anymore for til i turned my computer off then i turned it back on and it keeps giving a beep a video card beep according to the motherboard manual on the asus website anyways my video card is not overheating or anything and i havent been ingame when this as happend but when i was in game something happend but not quite like this what had happen ingame was everything to distorted and i couldnt see what i was doing in game earlier in the week it was like the graphics card was having trouble displaying correctly but let me go into more detail a bit so it gives the video card beeps but the video card and everything is hooked up properly in the inside being i havent messed with anything to do with the video card or motherboard or case since monday and havent moved nothing inside or out of the computer

anybody have a idea what the problem could be by the way i get bluescreens at random like it went black a couple times then it eventually displayed a blue screen signaling something has crashed then says dumping and stuff then when it restart those times it would mostly beep a bit plus when it does crash it gives a nv something dll i cant really write it down fast enough prettymuch so i havent got a clue as to what its exactly talking about but it seems like its trying totell me somethings not right i tried old drivers too now im back using the lattest drivers cuz i thought it was some kind of driver issue
 
Its almost impossible to understand your problem with no punctuation!

Couple of things i'd do;

Check the GPU is seated properly in the motherboard, and check all of your connections - may sound obvious, but its the obvious things that are overlooked.

Download and install some heat monitoring software and check the heat of your GPU under stress (Win7 has this feature built into the task manager, and i think Vista does also...), i know you said its not heat related but it would be worth checking just how hot its running.

What games are you running when this happens, and what settings are you running at?

If you can provide that .dll error code you metioned, it would help a lot!
 
im sorry about punctuation but i type so fast that i just was in a hurry this time big time cuz i didnt want it to crash on me while i was typing to you.

but anyways imma try to find out the nv dll its talking about in the blue screen.

other then that i monitor the temperatures and they are fine the fan is set to automatic and its not overheating and the other day i was playing aion on the high settings but aion runs fine no problems normally it just does that at random that day was wednesday i believe.

i tried the 257.21 drivers i think there called then i went back to the lattest nvidia drivers and nothing helped.

imma wait and see if it does the dll thing again tho and try to write it down
 
How old is the video card? They can fail with time. Sounds to me like it's had enough. :(

Do you have another gpu to test with?

Also, in your BIOS, you can set to "HALT ON ALL ERRORS",
which will pause the Blue Screen error message, so you can
write it down.
 
thanks video card i had installed since december i doubt its had enough tho cuz i havent even just begin to abuse it or toture it beyond belief yet lol

umm where you think in bios i would have to look to halt on errors i would like to do that if i get the chance and i hope it helps
 
bigl2007 said:
thanks video card i had installed since december i doubt its had enough tho cuz i havent even just begin to abuse it or toture it beyond belief yet lol

umm where you think in bios i would have to look to halt on errors i would like to do that if i get the chance and i hope it helps
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Even new stuff can be defective. ;) Plus a cheap or faulty power supply can destroy a graphics card. Or not putting enough power to the graphics card.

Just throwing stuff out there.

Anyway, in the BIOS, you'll just have to look around for it.
 
its on

its on the halt error is on i think i know what the problem was but im not sure if i solved it yet i overclocked the video card the other day. and i think somehow i got some artifacts to show up i never saw them b4 so i think thats why ingame it looked distorted. is there any programs by nvidia for nvidia cards that may fix this issue? as far as voltage and overclocking goes cuz i got the gpu at regular clocks right. now i had it overclocked the other day the and i think thats causing me problems now i didnt overclock it for long maybe about a half hour then i just went back to reset the clock through evga precision. but somehow i think thats whats causing the beeps the video card is not dead but what if its getting too much power or not running at the factory set voltages somehow i wonder if this is possible to do that tho i dont think i will be overclocking gpu's anymore lol
 
ok i need any advice you guys can give me about voltages is it possible that after you overclock a video card that you can cause these kinds of problems im having? because most of the time when i boot up my computer now i get the 1 long 3 short beeps meaning video card somethings up but everyt ime i press the power button it does that for awhile til i eventually press the power button again and it boots up properly sometimes and then it crashes periodically not all the time but i know i get the blue screen sometimes.

also if i overclock the card i know it draws more power but i have it on the default clocks now and still having problems is the card going bad?


cause of that overclock i mean overclocked the core clock pretty high i was trying ot get 650 mhz for core clock and that might have been overkill.
 
If you over-overclock your card (hah), you can cause all sorts of problems. Best bet is to constantly refer to benchmarks that are known to work. Just triple check that you've reset the cards clocks to default - perhaps try lowering them below the default settings.
 
thanks good idea but the damage is done already i guess i did put them at default clocks but i opened it up again and slotted the card back into place to make sure everything was connected properly now im not able to get a boot just the video card beeps of the motherboards speakers so i gave up at it im just gonna get another card sad part is i will be getting a 9800 GTX+ and not another 260GTX cuz i dont have another good budget like i had last year
 
video card that can handle these games on high

ok im not sure about getting the 450 GTS but i want a good cheap card that may be cheaper then the 130 price range but should be able to run aion on high as well as run cod4 on high any ideas as to what card any of you would go with? to replace my 260GTX
 
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