Recent content by Jaken

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    Broken Graphics card?

    Heh, strange thing just happened. I was adimant that my PSU wasnt broken. So we put it back in and now everythings fine...lol. Strange, must have been a dust build up or something...
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    Broken Graphics card?

    Sorry for the late reply, but have has a lot of uni work lately. Anyway, we swapped around PSU's and i am now using my mates and everything is working. So it must have been the PSU. Kinda annoying though, because my PSU i was using was a Thermtake 560w i got at christmas for around £90 at a...
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    Broken Graphics card?

    My friend managed to lend me one of his old graphics cards that he does not use anymore, but when i put it in the screen either goes blank after a certain amount of time or hangs, last time i booted up with it, the whole computer powered down which was a first. I also noticed that on my hardware...
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    Broken Graphics card?

    Would i check these by going into the BIOS?
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    Broken Graphics card?

    Hmm, they have always been the same distance for the last 4-5 months, so i dont see why it would suddenly start overheating now. :S
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    Broken Graphics card?

    Hi, I bought a Saphire X800 Pro last Christmas and today the screen suddenly displayed these vertical black lines with a white background, when this happened I had to restart then everything was ok again for a while. I then went out for about 20 mins after a restart, came back and the same...