New video card: Black Screens

[xSnowblindx]

My hardware problems are just endless.

So I had a BFG 5700 Ultra that was giving me vertical line artifacts, had that replaced through Alienware and just got a BFG 6800GS OC replacement from them. So I get the card in, and reformat (was doing this anyways). With XP installed, I begin to notice the screen stopping to respond (like the monitor light goes from yellow to amber, and the screen goes black-- but the computer still is running.) The only way to fix the black screen is to restart. So I figure it's something driver-related, so I go ahead and download the latest non-beta drivers from www.nvidia.com, and get those up and running along with all my other necissary drivers. The problem still happens now. I leave the computer on and it will happen at random times.

Any ideas?

 

[animefanatic]

sounds like you're getting artifacts from overheating... My computer has the somewhat same problem but it occurs if I game and that usually happens when (to my knowledge) when the card overheats.

 

[xSnowblindx]

You musn't have read the whole post- that was my old card getting artifacts. The replacement is just ceasing to respond. No overheating problem at all.