6800GT -- Video Cuts Out =x

[r0bVious]

Hey there. I have a 6800GT agp, and the oddest thing is just happening.

I took my computer over a friend's house for the past evening so we could chill out and play some games. Then I stopped by my girlfriend's on the way home and transferred a bunch of episodes of Lost and some music she had been wanting. Everything was great.

Now I get home and hook it up, and for some reason, my video cuts out. IE, my monitor stops receiving a signal.

Here's the funny part:

If I boot into safemode, it's okay. If I then uninstall the video drivers and boot regularly (as I am now), it's okay. I installed the newest drivers and as soon as the drivers took control, I had about 30 seconds or a minute before it cut signal again.

Should I try installing old drivers? I don't understand what the problem is. The card isn't overheating. I know that much.

Anyone have any ideas?

Ah yes, I also use UltraMon for dual monitors (which I have unhooked for the moment).

 

[xtknight]

The new drivers have caused me refresh rate problems. You're talking about NVIDIA 9x.xx right?

 

[r0bVious]

yes sir... are you saying maybe the drivers set my monitor out of range? my monitor runs at 85hz.

 

[Lord Evermore]

Seems pretty obvious it's a driver issue, so trying an older version can't hurt.

Although it's very slightly possible it's a hardware issue resulting from your transporting of the machine, which only manifests when the nvidia drivers do certain things which the standard Windows driver does not.

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: r0bVious
yes sir... are you saying maybe the drivers set my monitor out of range? my monitor runs at 85hz.

I believe they tried to run my monitor at .01Hz too high or something like it, and it was just too high so it showed out of range. I can't remember what I did to fix it. Reinstall, I think. Ah, I completely uninstalled my last drivers to wipe out all refresh rate settings and then cleanly installed the new ones (defaults to 60 Hz). That's what I did. And then I went in the advanced refresh rate setup dialog and made sure the new refresh rate (75 Hz in my case) didn't go above 75.000 Hz.

 

[r0bVious]

I reinstalled 84.21 (my previous version) and it seems to be working okay. If I just start spamming keys, it's because my screen went black and I wanted to convey that it is currently not working ;p

I'm going to test it a little (fire up Flatout 2 or something) and I'll report back. Thanks for the help guys. Response in a second.

 

[r0bVious]

Yeah, Flatout works okay. I think I'm gonna call it even. Thanks for the help guys!

 

[BassBomb]

psu bottoming out after so long?

 

[r0bVious]

nope, it's holding up just fine. The video card was running just fine (believe me, I can hear it, especially when the fans aren't slowed by software, ala when windows is booting). It seemed to have been a driver malfunction.

 

[Gstanfor]

You've been transporting the machine around, so go inside the case and reseat the card.