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6800 GT Booting with Artifacts... HELP!

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Fyzzle

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As of a few hours ago I had my computer working perfectly fine. That was until this morning when I turned it on again. The main parts of my system are as follows:

Athlon XP 3200

Leadtek 6800 GT

1GB PC3200 Kingston ram

Abit-NF7 nForce2 motherboard

When I tried to turn my PC on this morning immediately powering it on there were artifacts in POST. It was a combination of oddly colored text, or text missing in chunks. Next, there is sporadic green lines at various stages of the boot process. When getting to windows there will be a variety of things displayed ranging from different colored blocks or green lines on the screen.

I haven't done anything that really pushed the videocard recently. Nor have I made any changes to the videocard's cooling as I should (I had not gotten the time to do it yet 🙁 ). I've never had any heat issues with my case before or any other issues that stand out as possible problems.

I'm looking for any hints/tips/suggestions that people have as to what has happened to my video card, or anything I can do to fix it. I'm kinda feeling that the core got fried somehow. I'm hoping someone has a suggestion which says otherwise =\. If there is anything else I can provide let me know I really want to find out the cause of this to prevent it in the future. Thanks to everyone.
 
Yeah, I'm going to RMA it for sure, already started the process. I'm just wondering what happened to it.
 
Hi & Welcome to the forums Fyzzle 🙂

Without knowing too much about nvidia GPU card-monitoring software or core/mem speed tweaking / monitoring software, I'd say the first thing to do would be to download some applicable software so you can check what the memory / core frequencies are set at. If you do that and compare to the stock speeds you may find that your card is OC'd and you didn't even know it. Perhaps reducing to the stock speeds will eliminate some or all of the artifacts - hard to say. You could even experiment with a slight underclock although stock speeds should be fine - that is if you find that they differ in the first place.

You may have more success posting in the Video forum about this - at any rate you should probably search that forum for pre-posted advice. That said, good luck! I hope the card isn't fubar'd because it's better than mine and deserves gaming goodness. 🙂
 
Realize that if you put an aftermarket cooler on the card it void the warranty. So you would no longer have the option of an RMA.
 
Originally posted by: Ike0069
Realize that if you put an aftermarket cooler on the card it void the warranty. So you would no longer have the option of an RMA.
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He said he didnt make any changes to the cooling so hes lucky.
 
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