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How do you know when a video card is failing? (Not caused by over heating)



 
 
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Old November 20th 03, 07:11 AM
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Default 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,
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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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