screwy video card..

[pamf]

my video card it outputting a bunch of screwed characters.. some stuff is readable, but it comes out like 'amb arhcon' etc .. theres also lines all over everything..

i have no idea what happened.. it was working fine when i shut down, i got to a lan and it's screwed.. it doesnt work in another machine, and ive got a different card now, so its definately the card.. anyone got any ideas? it's a gf2mx.. no memory heatsinks, and just a heatsink on the core which is still attached.. everything looks fine ..


any ideas?

 

[sykopath79]

Who manufactured it?

 

[pamf]

asus.. v7100, 32mb

 

[pamf]

anyone? ;/ i know its old but i wont be able to get a decent replacement for like a month

 

[sykopath79]

Well, since the GF2MX spec doesn't even call for a heatsink on the GPU itself, we can almost certainly rule out thermal death (unless you've been overclocking the card).

The first thing to try when hardware goes on the fritz is to do a clean reinstall of the drivers. Follow these steps:

1.) If you're running Windows 9x/ME, set your display to 640x480 and the lowest color depth (this forces the default VGA driver). If you're running Windows NT/2000/XP, reboot, hold F8 while booting (for 2000/XP) and select "VGA Mode".

2.) Go into the Device Manager and uninstall the display adapter, then go manually find and delete all the driver files for the card. This is easy for NVIDIA's drivers, since you can use the Search tool and search for "nv*" which will show you all the NVIDIA-related files. Delete them all.

3.) Open regedit, find and delete any NVIDIA registry keys

4.) reboot and let Windows load normally

5.) reinstall the drivers and set your display resolution & depth back to your usual settings

If this doesn't solve your problem, come back here for more suggestions.

 

[pamf]

Its not drivers, its screwed on boot.. I can't see any physical damage either :/

Would large magnets affect it? it was near a rather large sub box on the trip down here, but i'd figure the hd would be screwed before the video ..

 

[sykopath79]

A weak magnetic field (such as that from a speaker coil) could interfere with the electrical signal in the card when it's running, but since the card is all solid-state electronics as opposed to magnetic media it wouldn't cause any physical damage (I believe... I could be wrong though). And if this was a subwoofer for a PC speaker system, then it's probably shielded anyway so the magnet wouldn't be an issue.

 

[pamf]

Nah, car audio.. I figured it might have done something to the bios .. I reflashed it (a chore, lemme tell you) but no luck..

The card 'works', I can get into windows and actually do things. I took two screenshots:

shot one
shot 2

I'd hope the card is salvagable if it 'works' well enough to function in windows.. :/

Time to email asus I guess..

 

[pamf]

no ingenious suggestions to save me from a tnt for a month? ;/

 

[mrEvil]

Nothing to change your current path....sounds like the slow death my GF2 Ultra died of.....never overclocked it....just started acting strange, sort of like you described....then poof...dead.

Not saying yours is, but I do not have much hope for you....sorry....

 

[pamf]

ah well.. i managed to borrow another gf2mx off a friend so i'm at least no worse off for now. guess ill pick up a ti4200..

thanks for the replies