how do you tell if your video card is going bad??

[onza]

Any input is much liked

thnx
onza

 

[karmasalad]

I can usually tell when my motherboard starts beeping at me like mad. AFAIK, most motherboards have beep codes indicating when your vid card is shot.

As for going bad... I guess if you notice significant deterioration in speed and quality. I've never really had this happen before, so I can't say for certain.

What are your symptoms?

 

[onza]

ok here's the thing.. i have a rage 128 pro chipset video card.. and when i play UT some lvls work great and some lvls go bad and i get a blue screen in win2k

i get a message pertaining to ati2mtaa.sys file something.. not sure exactly but its werid.. something to do w/ the memory if i reall correctly

onza

 

[MichaelD]

It sounds like the card is overheating. Understandable, given the card in question and what your doing on it. UT/Quake and the like are intense hardware-stressing games that "beat on" lower-end cards. I originally had the same card in a rig I built for my GF. Just playing Mooshu Tiles at 1024x768, the card would get too hot to touch. Returned the sucker. She's now using my old Voodoo3000 PCI.

Reinstall the drivers and see if that helps any. If it doesn't, it's time for a new card. GF MX400 is affordable and will greatly outperform the card you have now.

 

[TruculentTucan]

I notice that my card has gone bad when it gets soft and squishy, and starts to smell bad =)

 

[Jeff7]

When it starts mouthin off at you, or giving you obscene error messages, then it's probably gone bad.

Update drivers for it, and try running with the case off.

 

[onza]

i have a massive slot fan right under the video card... so i think its not over heating.. its very cool after i shut if off and touch it.. hmm... so is there any program that would test the ram on the video card lol

probably not but still worth a shot

onza