Can someone help verify if i am having a RAM or gfx card problem?

[xplicid911]

Having serious issues with my rig right now. In the middle of playing sc2 when screen becomes all pixelated and proceeds to freezes, which has led to a series of events:

1) Hard restart, browse web for a bit, everything is fine. Go back to sc2 (video game), comp gets pixelated, green horizontal lines plague the screen, freezes.
2) Hard restart, everything boots normally, browsing the web on how to use memtest.
3) start memtest, comp crashes!!!!!!
4) Hard reboot, comp wont even load, blue screen.
5) Start testing the ram, taking sticks out, trying them in different slots. No luck, still can boot operating system.
6) Start in safemode, everything boots but with white dashed lines running vertically down my screen, start running memtest, no errors in ram.
7)cant try swapping gfx card cause i have no other AGP card to try.


Im super lost. After 2nd crash thought it was my graphics card. after memtest crash and blue screen assumed ram. I did do the oven trick on the card about 6 months ago (http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2080412&highlight=).

Do you guys have ne idea on what could be causing this issue? I took a photo of step 6, while the comp runs memtest in safe mode.

BLUE SCREEN IMAGE

 

[DominionSeraph]

Video card.

 

[xplicid911]

Video card.

How sure are u on this?

And thanks for the imput.

 

[DominionSeraph]

How sure are u on this?

And thanks for the imput.

Well it could also be your motherboard.
What was the error on the bluescreen?

 

[xplicid911]

Well it could also be your motherboard.
What was the error on the bluescreen?

was something along the lines of, can not display drivers.. only up for like 2 seconds before it auto rebooted. Now i can even get the blue screen, just sits and nothing loads at all.

 

[xplicid911]

Well it could also be your motherboard.
What was the error on the bluescreen?

posted the blues screen message..

I just checked to see how warm the mobo heatsync was and it was much warmer then i expected...

 

[fffblackmage]

lol, oven trick... maybe the gfx card needs some more time in the oven then?

That's pretty good though. You basically got 6 more months of use on an otherwise dead graphics card. Awesome!

 

[bontu]

I'd guess video card too, I had the same msi 8800gts card that developed crash issues and was able to rma for full refund. I replaced it with a new video card, and the pc has been fine since.

also you previously oven baked your card as well. I thought oven baking generally is a temporary fix until the heating/cooling process makes the cracks again in the bad solder.

 

[mfenn]

Yep, I agree with bontu. Your GPU is hosed.

The oven trick fixes the symptom (cracked solder joints) but does not address the root cause (crappy solder). Furthermore, you can see that the bluescreen was caused by nvlddmkm.sys, which is the Nvidia driver.