Hello all,
I recently started having some issues with my PNY 6800 GT that is a little over a year old. It worked fin up till about 3 days ago when I had finished my new computer desk and moved the pc from its current location ot the new. The first occurance was when after running for a about an hour the video shutoff as I was working, sound still worked but video was gone. I didn't think much of it, however after leaving it running for a day or so, it happened again while I was at work. I botted it back up after work and everything was fine as I played Call of Duty 2 for about an hour when the whole screen looked like colored snow. I figured that maybe the card was getting hot even thought to the touch it was not hot. I used an aircompressor to clean out the pc and video card fans. I then booted and started to play COD2 when it happened again, same colored snow. I then reset the pc and imediatly recieved jumbled, artifacty video and to no avail the card seemed bad.
I switched the 6800GT from my pc with my other one running a Geforce4 Ti4600. My pc after playing CoD2 and 3DMark03 seems to be fine, no issues. I put the 6800GT in the other pc and ran Farcry demo, 3DMark05 and 3DMark05 with no issues, the card performed great and was not really hot. The two PC's are not exactly the same but they both run and AMD cpu and have about the same amount of hdd's running. The only thing I can conclude is that my Power Supply is not giving enough juice to power the video and everything else. I can't think of anything I changed when rearranging the desk and I didn't plug more into my pc. I can only comclude this as the 6800GT pc has a 300W power supply and the other has a 400W.
I think I'll swap the power supplies and the video cards back to the origonal pc's and see if that makes a difference.
Sorry for that long first post, thanks for your help in advance - let me know if my theory makes sense.
jer
I recently started having some issues with my PNY 6800 GT that is a little over a year old. It worked fin up till about 3 days ago when I had finished my new computer desk and moved the pc from its current location ot the new. The first occurance was when after running for a about an hour the video shutoff as I was working, sound still worked but video was gone. I didn't think much of it, however after leaving it running for a day or so, it happened again while I was at work. I botted it back up after work and everything was fine as I played Call of Duty 2 for about an hour when the whole screen looked like colored snow. I figured that maybe the card was getting hot even thought to the touch it was not hot. I used an aircompressor to clean out the pc and video card fans. I then booted and started to play COD2 when it happened again, same colored snow. I then reset the pc and imediatly recieved jumbled, artifacty video and to no avail the card seemed bad.
I switched the 6800GT from my pc with my other one running a Geforce4 Ti4600. My pc after playing CoD2 and 3DMark03 seems to be fine, no issues. I put the 6800GT in the other pc and ran Farcry demo, 3DMark05 and 3DMark05 with no issues, the card performed great and was not really hot. The two PC's are not exactly the same but they both run and AMD cpu and have about the same amount of hdd's running. The only thing I can conclude is that my Power Supply is not giving enough juice to power the video and everything else. I can't think of anything I changed when rearranging the desk and I didn't plug more into my pc. I can only comclude this as the 6800GT pc has a 300W power supply and the other has a 400W.
I think I'll swap the power supplies and the video cards back to the origonal pc's and see if that makes a difference.
Sorry for that long first post, thanks for your help in advance - let me know if my theory makes sense.
jer
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