Is my 7900GT dying?

[VivienM]

So, I have a PNY 7900GT that I got this summer... board is Asus P5W DH, C2D E6600, etc.

Here's the full story:
Video card seemed to be running fine for the first month or so... Then I got real busy with school and didn't play games, but did keep updating drivers. I go and try a couple of games... and it's BSODs galore. (This was with 93.71) I figure that the drivers are the problem, and upgrade to some beta drivers found on a corner of NVIDIA's site. Problem 'fixed'.

Subsequently, I discover after other BSODs outside games that my RAM was bad. So, 2 new gigs, and I'm back in business... or so I thought. There were still various glitches (e.g. vertical/horizontal lines) in games like Sid Meier's Railroads. I blamed the beta drivers...

Now, I install Vista... and let's see
- the 100.59 driver has tons of display glitches of various kinds
- 97.46 from NVIDIA's site caused BSODs galore
- 97.46 from MS seems to work fine, with the occasional glitches today...

So I'm starting to wonder... is NVIDIA making really crap drivers? or my card screwy in some way?

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Have tried some new drivers in WinXP again? Also, what was on the STOP error?

 

[VivienM]

I'm not sure there ARE any newer drivers for XP... in any case, it's a bit too late now.

STOP error in Vista was... 0x00000124 (0x00000000, 0x8615c418, 0xb2000000, 0x00000175)
(The 0x00000124 is constant, the other numbers have changed...)