Trying to replace my video card but old is broken

[slayer202]

I have an evga 8800gts that isn't working, and I have another 8800gt, a BFG one that I'm trying to replace it with.

The evga is done for. I can't boot up with the new card though, I'm guessing its the drivers? It gets to where windows is loading with the progress bar, but then it turns black, I'm guessing at the screen where I would normally put in my password. All black but the mouse icon is there. I tried booting into safe mode but the same thing happens. Is there something I'm missing?

 

[Spikesoldier]

your video card dying might not have been the only thing to go. sounds like a software problem though. what flavor of windows are you running?

 

[slayer202]

vista ultimate 64x. reason I said video card was because with my evga card, I get garbled graphics with wavy lines throughout the screen.

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/1286/67074690.jpg

 

[Qbah]

Whoa, that's some weird sh!t. It's only inside your browser that things are messed up - doesn't look like a hardware issue to me. I guess you did try to reinstall the newest ForceWare? Also, try to boot into Safe Mode and remove the drivers.

Did you install anything new recently?

 

[slayer202]

I can't get into safe mode or windows with the old card or the new one. I installed sp2 the day it started getting funky. I'm not sure If I updated any other driver, nor can I figure out how to get rid of em :/

 

[slayer202]

I can't get into safe mode or windows with the old card or the new one. I installed sp2 the day it started getting funky. I'm not sure If I updated any other driver, nor can I figure out how to get rid of em :/

 

[slayer202]

ok, I just tried ANOTHER card, same problem. this was a 7900 from a dell I had lying around. Could it be the motherboard?

I just threw the BFG replacement 8800 into the dell and it worked fine. I am gonna try to "broken" evga in a few minutes. I find it weird that the evga gets weird graphics during startup while the other cards work fine until windows. Is is possible that something happened to the pci-e slot and screwed up the evga card along with it? Is there any way to check for problems in bios? I have no real experience in bios

 

[Qbah]

Do you get the fuzzy thingies also in other places? Like Add/Remove programs? If not, try to uninstall your drivers and then swap to some other card.

And I haven't heard of anything in BIOS that could troubleshoot your PCI-e slots.

If the "BFG replacement" works fine, try to do all that when it's in your computer. It looks to me like the SP2 update borked something and it's not the hardware. As a last thing, you could wipe your system drive clean and reinstall WinXP

 

[faxon]

that looks like bad ram to tell you the truth. try running memtest on it before you condemn the video card. i had an issue where my 7900GT did that, ended up it was the video card's memory going on it. memory errors can show up in plenty of other ways though, and a garbled 2D image like that is one of them. could be the GPU is processing it fine, but it's reading back like that out of main memory. just cause your ram is bad doesnt mean the system will crash lol

 

[sarentack]

question is is there a screen when you restart where it displays the video card information?

like

Geforce 8800GTS
648 MB
ver. xxxx