How do you know when a video card is failing? (Not caused by over heating)
Hello, I had freeze ups and artifacts during 3d game play. I got some dust remover. I cleaned the dust. I rebooted & got scan lines in the boot up routine. I rebooted again and the lines went away. Unfortunately games still fail to render. Used PassMark PerformanceTest V4.0 to do some tests. Less than 2 fps :?( Windows runs fine but I don't turn off my pc. Maybe there would be more problems if I did. Maybe my Geforce2 MX/400MX is old even though the pc was brewed in March 2003. It has a heat sink but no fan. Is it heat that is the cause? How do you know when the video card is failing? Help please, -- Windows XP Home Edition Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.8GHz Card name: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400, 52.16 Memory: 256MB RAM DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0b (4.09.0000.0902) BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG Mother Board System Model: ASUSTeK Computer INC. - A7N8X Monitor: Hitachi CM751 Sound Devices: NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio Disk Model: Maxtor 6 E040L0 SCSI Disk Device 40GB CD-RW Model: CyberDrv CW078D CD-R/RW SCSI CdRom Device Front Side Bus Speed: 2x 133MHz (266MHz data rate) |
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Well when dealing with computers, its really hard to tell what the cause of a problem is so my best advise to you? You have a decent rig why you have a G2 in there... i dont know (it was a left over i bet). Your card is your rigs bottleneck, just get a G4Ti4200/4800, FX5600, or some ati crap. Im assuming you put the G2 in there cuz you had it or it was cheep, well a 5600 would do nice if you need dx9 stuff. Any higher card and it'd just be a waste with your present set up. Oh yea, thats not the point of your post... but thats the answer i'll give. Trust me, if your a gamer you 'WILL' notice a huge differance. Trust me, im using a candle and white paper. *hope to upgrade to a mag-lite soon* "sNuffles" wrote in message ... Hello, I had freeze ups and artifacts during 3d game play. I got some dust remover. I cleaned the dust. I rebooted & got scan lines in the boot up routine. I rebooted again and the lines went away. Unfortunately games still fail to render. Used PassMark PerformanceTest V4.0 to do some tests. Less than 2 fps :?( Windows runs fine but I don't turn off my pc. Maybe there would be more problems if I did. Maybe my Geforce2 MX/400MX is old even though the pc was brewed in March 2003. It has a heat sink but no fan. Is it heat that is the cause? How do you know when the video card is failing? Help please, -- Windows XP Home Edition Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.8GHz Card name: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400, 52.16 Memory: 256MB RAM DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0b (4.09.0000.0902) BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG Mother Board System Model: ASUSTeK Computer INC. - A7N8X Monitor: Hitachi CM751 Sound Devices: NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio Disk Model: Maxtor 6 E040L0 SCSI Disk Device 40GB CD-RW Model: CyberDrv CW078D CD-R/RW SCSI CdRom Device Front Side Bus Speed: 2x 133MHz (266MHz data rate) |
Thanks llamaboiz, I'm doing just that; looking into a new NVIDIA card. They're cheap enough now (I'am frugal as you guessed) to just replace rather than try to fix. |
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