Screen Blinks every so often..Why?? 8800gts

JoeSamo

JoeSamo

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so all of a sudden randomly laitly my screen goes blank for a second or two then comes back..why would my vid card be doing this?? it maxes around 70 degrees celcius so i dunno if it has anything to do with that...maybe an upgrade is in store?? i have no idea.. please help with ideas!

EDIT: my current installed driver is 169.04

on the nvidia website it says to install ForceWare Release 163Version: 163.75 WHQL Release Date: November 6, 2007. But when i went to do it it says im installing an older version of software so i didn't install it... What should i do?

Double EDIT: my monitor is Acer AL2002W 20-inch Widescreen LCD Monitor dunno if that helps.
 
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You've isolated the problem is def the video card?
Im not a Guru but 70 C is seems quite hot, its not idle I hope, only while in games?
 
thats only im games and i hear thats not too bad, eitehr way i got a cooling fan coming today that should cool my entire interior of the pc down quite alot from newegg.com but either way im really trying to figure this out still.
 
adarsh is right, never thought about that

What do you have coming from newegg? Im looking for some effiecent cooling devices for my pc
 
you may be running too high of a refresh rate, what kind of cable are you running from your video to your monitor, and at what resolution/refresh rate?

You may need to get a dual link DVI cable if you are running really high digital resolutions at high refresh rates.
 
60 HZ its the only option i can have refresh rate , native resolution for my monitor which is 1680x1050. i have it in DVI which is the only option for my video card... Hope this helps! cuz i need to figure this out lol . anyways heres the fan im geting today to cool down my system http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835118019


btw ive had this system set up since august so it only started doing this this month.
 
vresolution * hresolution * refresh rate = total amount of bandwidth needed to display properly.

In your case, you need approximately, 105Mhz roughly of bandwidth. Which is fine because a single link DVI cable can handle approx ~ 160Mhz total bandwidth.

I suspect your problem is in the drivers/OS or hardware and not the cable. I would first try to completely reinstall your drivers, and use factory drivers from the manufacturer don't use third party. If you have vista you can look at the system stability logs but not sure exactly how well those logs help.
 
alright so i guess ill try to reinstall the drivers, to do this i gotta go in safe mode right? then uninstall the video card drivers then restart? I got the cd that came with my 8800gts right here so im hoping that will do it. BTW runnin XP
 
if you have third party install there should be an uninstaller or the ability to remove them via control panels. If not, that is horrid coding. Downloading the newest drivers from nvidia could also possibly overwrite them, if you have it running as a start up application disable it from running.
 
You can also download and run DrivercleanerPro. It's a free utility that is meant to be ran after the uninstall of any third party driver, it deletes every remnant of the driver of your choice, something the regular uninstall will not do. Helpful when dealing with the sort of problem you are faced with, when the graphical driver needs to be fully removed from the equation.
 
well its been a lil since i posted in this post but its done the screen blinkey thing only once and it was in half life 2 at the moment.. i really hope it doesn't really keep doing this even though i reinstalled all the drivers...maybe i just have to wait for a fix from nvidia?????????????????
 
i don't wanna completely format my system for this...i didn't think it would be THAT big of a deal. Last formatted like a few months ago
 
guys your all gonna laugh at me. The DVI cable plugged into my monitor was loose...Never thought it could happen to me hahaha.....god go ahead flame me. :confused::confused::confused: :D Well ill let ya know if that was the problem lol cuz i think so
 
JoeSamo said:
guys your all gonna laugh at me. The DVI cable plugged into my monitor was loose...Never thought it could happen to me hahaha.....god go ahead flame me. :confused::confused::confused: :D Well ill let ya know if that was the problem lol cuz i think so
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first rule of troubleshooting, ask yourself, is it plugged in properly?

haha it happens to everyone from time to time.
 
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