Is my Visiontek G3Ti500 Fried?

[basalt51]

I left my computer on for a few hours the other day. No programs running. When I came back the screen was all white. I rebooted the machine and after the memory test I got a flashing white and gray screen with some lines and strange characters. I rebooted into safe mode and I actually reached the desktop, then got the same flashing white and Gray screen after a few seconds. Now every time I reboot the video seems to work fine for 10-30 seconds, then I get the white screen. The computer actually starts just fine, but the video is screwed. This card has been working flawlessly for about 3 months and I haven't made any recent changes to anything. I thought maybe it over heated, but my comp Idles at 39-41 degrees C, internal temp 70-80 degrees F.

I replaced it with my old Geforce and eveything works fine.

Have any of you experienced this before?

Thanks

AMD XP 1600+
768 MB RAM
VISIONTEK GEFORCE 3 TI 500
EPOX 8KHA+

 

[Baditude]

Aren't you glad that your Visiontek GeForce 3 Ti 500 has a lifetime warrenty?

 

[LuDaCriS66]

Have you ever made any modifications to the card itself?

 

[basalt51]

Baditud- I guess so!

Ludacris- Nope

 

[Schadenfreude]

hmm.. go into bios see if it stays fine in bios.
it also could be the problem with monitor.. did u test another monitor on this computer or vise versa?

lifetime warranty... good!

 

[nlieber]

Is the video cards fan still working?

 

[basalt51]

Thanks for the help.

It turns out the PS was the problem. Unfortunately it some how burned up part of the ATX power connector. 1 new motherboard and PS (enermax 465) and eveything is up and runnig again. I'm just glad it wasn't the geforce.

By the way Newegg ROCKS! I told them there was an error in the original manual for the motherboard (Epox KH8A+) that puts the default jumper position on the Reset Cmos position instead of normal. I told them I thought that lead to the demise of my PS. They said to call them for an RMA for the board. Awesome!