Monitor Displaying Garbled

[Son1c]

Hello im new to these forums.
Right what happened was i left my computer alone for about half an hour, it wasn’t doing anything, I noticed i had strange colors and lines going across the screen. I have been known to over clock my graphics card (6800GT) and it is a fairly hot running card. I think it is the graphics card that has died but i just need to be sure before I go out and buy a new one. I have also tried other Monitors but unfortunately I cannot check if it is the graphics card because I don’t have a spare one.
Could someone please try and figure out what is going wrong?

PC Specs:
NVIDIA 6800Gt
WD Raptor (SATA)
2GB Ram
Antec 450W power supply
AMD Athlon 3000+ (socket 939)
Asus A8N-SLi Nforce4

Monitor: Viewsonic VX924

 

[Nutcase]

Are those "artifacts", those strange lines and colors you mantioned, appearing during gameplay or in deskop mode or in both?

The only way I know to check the broblem is to ask your friend to lend his card to you to check if its your card that is problematic or take your card to your friend and chek it in his system?

Maybe someone more advisable can tell some better trick to check if it´s your card or if it´s your monitor.

 

[jancz3rt]

Hmmm

Well if your card has not died yet, I would recommend going back to original clocks and get a better cooler for it. It clearly seems to be artefacts showing up due to either too high of an overclock or a temp that's too high. Either way, that should not merit a replacement card.

JAN

 

[Son1c]

well it is so bad i cannot do anything and it happens as soon as i boot so theres no way i can alter the clock frequency's, also the clock frequencys were already at their default state when this happend. I have only overclocked in the past. Also I put a Artic Cooling custom fan onto my graphics card which cooled it down by 10degrees but it still idled at around 50degrees.

 

[Son1c]

Is there a definate reason for why this is happening, it is even like it on the bios menu so it cannot be that it is overclocked because that doesnt happen until the drivers load up does it ?