Video Card Troubleshooting

bumblebee_tuna

bumblebee_tuna

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Earlier, while I was playing games (World of Warcraft specifically.......) when I started noticing some major artifacting with the mountains (enough to where it looked like mountains........). Then later, after a restart, my video card up and stopped working.........

I've already tried a bunch of troubleshooting but I'd like a list of what I can do........
 
I first was able to get the the Windows load screen before I lost the signal and then for awhile, nothing at all with no post, and then now I'm able to get to the post screen for a split second before I lose the signal....... Because I've removed and installed the card different times with different results, I'm figurin that it may be the bus that is causing this........
 
So you get a POST and all, but then it goes out when it startes to load windows? If this is the case, have you tried something like a LiveCD or BartPE?
 
The_Other_One said:
So you get a POST and all, but then it goes out when it startes to load windows? If this is the case, have you tried something like a LiveCD or BartPE?
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Well, for awhile I found that if I pused it over to the left, the card would work fine and I had rigged it to keep it leaning over to the left and it had worked for awhile but it must have shifted and now I can't get it to work again...... (*fragment)
 
The symptoms remind me of my old NES when the system would start kicking on and off by itself. I would use a q-tip with alcohol to clean the game and the port the game slide into.

If I had to clean a pci port on a mb I'd probably use contact cleaner with a lint free fabric
 
bldgengineer said:
The symptoms remind me of my old NES when the system would start kicking on and off by itself. I would use a q-tip with alcohol to clean the game and the port the game slide into.

If I had to clean a pci port on a mb I'd probably use contact cleaner with a lint free fabric
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I don't think the problem is due to dirty contacts, but rather, I'm not getting a proper connection..... Is there anyway to improve connections or straighten the bus pins?
 
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