please help.. :( is my video card ruined??

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CorNut

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I built my system about 4 months ago and it has ran perfectly... Well today I was stoked about the Battlefield 2 demo so I installed it and updated to their reccomended drivers from nvidia(77.30). I sat and played BF2 for a good couple hours then all the sudden my monitor(Acer AL1914 19" LCD if that matters..) said no signal.. I didn't know what to do.. after a couple of minutes(checking connections) still nothing.. I had to do it... I hit the reset button and when it rebooted and I tried to open BF2 back up my screen looks like this:

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I uninstalled BF2... and I uninstalled the unreleased nvidia drivers they had me install.. Everything is back to the way it was... well even Counterstrike is messed up... I get this:

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My computer is not overclocked or anything... I am running a 3000+ 90nm, K8NF-9 NF4 board, XFX 6600GT, 500w PS, and 1GB(2x512 PC3200 in dual channel) ram..

Any advice?? My computer works fine online or just using basic programs but as soon as I open a game it has a screen that looks like the playboy channel if you don't have a descrambler... Seems like the more text the worse it is... as you can see on the CS:S pic the background is fine... but on the first pics you can see how the text is unreadable.. Hopefully it is something stupid that one of you can help me with... if it is the video card, anybody know how XFX is with warranty work? looks like I'll have to hook up my old setup if I need to have it warrantied... I have like a half dozen AGP video cards in my closet, but sure enough... the first one to go bad is a PCI-E one that I don't have a temporary replacement for if it needs sent in
 
The first thing I would check is make sure anti-aliasing and Anisotropic is disabled or set to application-controlled in the driver setting. You should always control these two things from the game not the drivers other wise you could conflicts with the game. Maybe when you upgraded drivers it enabled these things and when you switched back they stayed enabled.

This just a wild guess but it worth checking.

right click desktop, properties, settings, advanced, name of graphic card tab, performance and quility settings, make sure anti-aliasing and ansotropic is application controled.
 
the anti-aliasing was on, and anisotropic was set to application controlled... I put them both on application controlled and it didn't fix it so I went ahead and turned them both to off and it is still doing it.... This sucks :(

any other ideas?
 
Maybe the drivers could have something to do with it. Also, how hot does it get inside your case? Heat might be a cause of it.
 
i dont have a thermo to check or anything... but I have the X-Connect PS with dual fans, 2 stealth 80MM fans+the Chieftec 80MM fan that came with my case, and I have ArcticSilver5 on my CPU/HS&fan combo so I am "guessing" that shouldn't be an issue?? the 6600GT have pretty good cooling out of the box?? Is there a way of checking without a thermo.?
 
CorNut said:
? Is there a way of checking without a thermo.?
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If you have a newer driver is will say in the driver setting what the video card temp is. temperture setting tab in the graphic driver settings.
 
CorNut said:
hmm.. i can't seem to find that??
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hmm that strange. Maybe it a feature specific to a geforce 6800 ULTRA. or you have a old version of the driver.

on my computer it is right click desktop, properties, settings, advanced, name of graphic card tab, temperture settings.
 
I dont see how by installing the new drivers would physically kill the video card :confused: ...I would try to do a system restore to see if it is just a windows thing or other software problem...if not before going out and buying a new card try seeing if that card will work in a different computer :rolleyes:
 
Travo925 said:
I dont see how by installing the new drivers would physically kill the video card :confused: ...I would try to do a system restore to see if it is just a windows thing or other software problem...if not before going out and buying a new card try seeing if that card will work in a different computer :rolleyes:
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umm... I didn't say the drivers were bad.... The video card worked fine with them, and I guess you missed the part about how I didn't have any other PCI-E vid cards... that there also means I don't have any PCI-E systems so I can't do that(test the card in another system)... What I am afraid of is the fact that I was playing it on full quality and that causing issues.... I don't think it was the driver itself.... I mean I put the old driver back on and it didn't fix it so I know that isn't the problem... I wish I could do a restore, but I can't find my windows CD.. that was one of my first ideas but without the CD I can't really do that... And who said anything about buying a new vid card? worst comes to worst I'll warranty it :cool: but I won't do that until I am certain... I am just posting here as my first stage of troubleshooting
 
the 6600GT have pretty good cooling out of the box??
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Generally? No

Is there a way of checking without a thermo.?
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The 66GT comes with a thermal meter

I dont see how by installing the new drivers would physically kill the video card
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Well a few beta releases of Detonators had a bug in them which made them run 20C warmer. Not a problem for a lot of people but some people with them silly "i want a quiet computer" setups might have had issues with it
 
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