My nVidia card has suddenly turn bad... pls help

[GenerationYscorpio]

My Geforce2 GTS card is now display lines and lines white lines and dots all over my screen and majority of the time it will freeze before finish loading the windows. The image on the desktop is filled with flashing white lines or dots...
The gobbled image was there even at the system boot screen and in different computers too.
I have tried several method to cure the problem in the past week and yet it still is bad.


I have tried
1. updating or changing the driver
2. put it in different computer
3. flashed bios different one and the same one
4. Changed the refresh rate to 60 even to 1
5. Did a complete clean of the graphic card, just in case some dirt is causing it.
6. Had it rest for up to a week and re-test it still the same
7. Lower the clock frequency and ram frequency
8. Even tried in different OS 98/XP still the same

Any suggestions or recommendation or thoughts is welcome.

 

[Jen]

How long have you had the card?

Also were you overclocking the card by any chance?


I had similar happen to me when i overclocked my hercules prophet geforce. Had to buy another video card..........


Jen

 

[wfbberzerker]

your video card has gone bad. rma it to the manufacturer, and pick up a new one.

 

[GenerationYscorpio]

I had the card over a year.

I did overclock it but only on occassional bases, mostly only on playing max payne, but overall is rarely o/c

 

[GenerationYscorpio]

darn... no more games for me... I am using this junk 4meg card atm

pls help

Any suggestions or comments is cool

 

[Possum]

I've had this problem once before, and it just meant I had a defective GeForce (but it was dead on arrival, not dying). I tried it in friends' computers and they had the same problem. Replacing the card was the only thing I could do.

One of my friends had a Leadtek card that eventually died on him. It also would freeze his system before Windows could finish booting. He had to get a replacement card too.

 

[Mingon]

Is it a new(ish) motherboard ?

 

[damocles]

Sounds like the ram is dying

 

[LordEdmond]

my gf3 keeps dying , mine looses it bios. The only way is to boot with pci vid card and reflash , then its ok for a while , I think its heat related as it only happens after prolonged use, the card is not o/c

 

[Muadib]

had similar happen to me when i overclocked my hercules prophet geforce. Had to buy another video card
Me too, and I'm still waiting for Dell to ship it. Damn you Dell.:disgust:

 

[Muadib]

LordEdmond, why haven't you returned it you a new one?

 

[LordEdmond]

waiting for the rma information been waiting for two weeks now, once they have your money they do not care any more,

ahh well keep waiting , more phone calls ( more waiting on phone listening to music )

 

[Amused]

nt

 

[tristramshandy]

Sounds like your memory is going bad, progrssively.

I had the same thing happen to my Elsa Gladiac GF2 GTS. Of course it was just over a year old. Of course I overclocked (who didn't?). Of course I never heard a peep from Elsa about an RMA (emailed and phoned for weeks).

 

[GenerationYscorpio]

Anyone happen to have the same problem and was able to cure it or mostly cure it at least.........

 

[Wind]

<< Anyone happen to have the same problem and was able to cure it or mostly cure it at least......... >>


W/ ur current prob...I've yet to seen solutions other than RMA ur card.

 

[TunaBoo]

Try adding heatinks to the ram/ re attaching GPU. Also, try underclocking, see if that fixes problem.

 

[GenerationYscorpio]

sigh, guess I have to give up on this card, I had this card over a year so no manufacture is going to claim the dead card's corpse...

I did had the ram sink on it. So, well, thank you all for the advices.

 

[Bozo Galora]

I had same experience with a PNY GF3
Similarly, putting in a PCI card , reflash seemed to fix for a while
Finally crapped out permanent (1 month old)
Tried to call PNY for RMA number, got that leave message stuff
So I just sent card back to NJ with no RMA, been two months, now nobody knows anything.
Bye Bye $300
No MAS PNY

 

[Amused]

My Hercules GF2 has a 3 year warranty. What is your card's warranty?

 

[Bozo Galora]

lifetime (heh heh)