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Celebi

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Hi! I'm not sure where to post this but I have a question -

I installed a new game recently and went to load it up for the first time, after loading it crashed in seconds followed by a "display driver stopped responding and has recovered". This is the first time receiving this error~! I thought it was because of the game, so I did a system restore to remove it but that didn't fix the problem. So now every time I load the computer the display driver keeps crashing right after logging in. There's also red dots appearing on the screen when it starts to crash and stuff - I tried to paste a ss of that into paint, but the red dots didn't show up. This last problem is kinda hard to explain; but at the same time it'll repeat a bunch of weird distorted pixel squares (the same image..like repeated in the shape of a checker board sorta..) and then freeze? It's a different image every time?

This all started happening after running that game ! (sims e.p) I'm running a gtx 8800 graphics card. Does this problem sound like it has to do with the graphics card, or something else in the computer?? I don't know a lot about computers so bare with me please, but all I know is the things never been overclocked.

Sorry it's kinda long but thank you! [:
 
That's odd~! :/ I tried that last night but it didn't work, just tried that again and now it does? Thank you very much !!
 
Celebi said:
Ahh~! >.< It's doing it again. Happened right after loading a game, and re-updating driver isn't working this time. At first it just turned black and completely froze, don't think I got the driver display message. So I restarted manually, but I can't even log in it now without getting bsod? Only safe mode works.. and this weird checkerboard thing keeps displaying: http://i1166.photobucket.com/albums/q613/ticklechupink/Desktop/lines.png
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I can not see it in the image? The safe mode text is meant to be like that if thats what you are saying...
 
Can you try a different video card? If its not the card, then next thing would be the psu.
 
Celebi said:
@ EclipticShell - Ohh sorry ! ): There's suppose to be red lines going across the screen jaggedly, I can't really tell if it's visible in the image >.< Changes color to blue in chrome~

@ johnb35 - It's this: http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-ModXStrea...pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1344278352&sr=1-9&keywords=ocz

Kinda hard to see but heres a photo instead: http://i1166.photobucket.com/albums/q613/ticklechupink/Desktop/IMG_3098.jpg
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Is it onboard or PCI? Is it only like it during the OS?
 
@ johnb35 - My dad has spares kept some wheres, I'll try that when he's home. Thank you!

@ EclipticShell - The connectors are PCI, sorry I'm a little lost but the lines load up right when logging into the user~ When it's loading the screen before logging into the user, there's a different kind of lines though a lot more thicker.
 
EclipticShell said:
Is it onboard or PCI? Is it only like it during the OS?
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It's an 8800 GTX so it's a dedicated PCI Express graphics card.

Here are some suggestions:

What you can try doing is reseating the graphics card, simply take it out of the PCI Express slot and then put it back in again, sometimes this works.

The card may be running hot, take it out, spray air into the cooler, get rid of all the dust, try it again.

You could try removing the card completely from your system and try using onboard video and see if you get the same problem then, just to determine if the power supply is bad. Not every board has onboard video I know, but it's worth a try if your board does.

If the card is overclocked remove any overclocks and try it at stock. Don't worry about this if the card is not overclocked.

Go into Safe Mode and completely uninstall your drivers by using the Device Manager (go into Device Manger, under Display Adapters find your 8800 GTX, right click, Uninstall), then reinstall your drivers in Safe Mode. Make sure when you reinstall you do 'Perform a clean installation' - should be an option to do this in the installer. Sounds to me like what you've done before is just update your drivers without removing the old ones first.

Your power supply looks fine, there's a possibility it could be bad but more likely it's the card itself or the drivers.

I think your card is probably overheating.
 
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@ Spirit - Just wanted to say thanks for the tips! I tried deleting the driver and re-installing yersterday, but the odd thing was when re-installing it wouldn't pick up the card! >.< And the problem was still there this morning, left it turned on and come back ~ restart ~ and somehow it fixes itself and is able to pick the card up again =/ Ahh thank you ! c=
 
Umm..like an hour after I posted that the problem came back ! :/ And then it'd just start happening randomly, changed to an old card and everything's been fine now.

~~~ Anyway I'm looking for a new card around 50~100$ or a little over? (Amazon prices please and used is fine !) Um I'm looking for something equal to old one (8800 gtx ultra) or bit under if it's possible? I want it to be able to run sims 3 / aion on low settings at least with not much lag? Psu is 700w & I'm not sure what kinda cards my computer can run though, it's like a 5 year old hp if this makes a difference~ >.<
 
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Celebi said:
Umm..like an hour after I posted that the problem came back ! :/ And then it'd just start happening randomly, changed to an old card and everything's been fine now.

~~~ Anyway I'm looking for a new card around 50~100$ or a little over? (Amazon prices please and used is fine !) Um I'm looking for something equal to old one (8800 gtx ultra) or bit under if it's possible? I want it to be able to run sims 3 / aion on low settings at least with not much lag? Psu is 700w & I'm not sure what kinda cards my computer can run though, it's like a 5 year old hp if this makes a difference~ >.<
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Nahhh! Novatech are cheaper I think.
 
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