Faulty Videocard? Options

[Renzoblade]

Yep, hate this, my geforce 6200 256mb card, resets my pc everytime I try play a game, Doom 3 used to work fine, 2 months latter i reinstalled, it was loading when i clicked new game,then bang,pc restarted, just shut off.

The card is only around 3 months new, is it already dieing or is this a driver thing, because I have a fresh windows install, and the latest drivers from Nvidia are installed.

Even in the settings for my card, it has settings for doom 3, i tried those to...didnt work.

Out of the 8 pc games I got, NONE work now, they either glitch hard or the pc restarts.

[Renzoblade]

UPDATE: I just tried older drivers,i uninstalled the new latest drivers then installed the drivers off the cd that came in the box, same thing happened, also i tried some other games, they ALL reset the f'ing pc, this is killing me now. still under warranty so if i get help ill return it tommorow.

[amir]

i guess for a video overheating you get a frozen screen & for a cpu frying you get a shutdown / restart.

[Renzoblade]

i tried the pc in safe mode,and one of my games actually played lol, so i went back and ran dxdiag, and i experimented, i turned off AGP Texture Accelaration, and DAMN, Urbersoldier launched and loaded, clicking new game didnt reset the pc, but during a cut scene, froze and i had to turn off the pc manually lol, so that went no where, but i was amazed strengh & honour played for awhile with AGP T.A off, but then i tried again..and pc restarted.

I turned off auto restart after failure and got this blue screen.

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/4811/sl370949jt6.jpg

Also a side shot of my pc



( the dust in the side fan is GONE lol ) , my pc is always at a low temp.

[Renzoblade]

update : i uninstalled the drivers, put in my old geforce 4 MX440 and the same thing happened, so I guess its not the 6200?

[bobhome]

update : i uninstalled the drivers, put in my old geforce 4 MX440 and the same thing happened, so I guess its not the 6200?

Hi,
I think you will find it a RAM or driver problem, make sure ram is seated correctly, if your ram is ok and not faulty, then it is definitely a driver issue.
I had a problem with a sound card driver, I downloaded then bought driver detective, it found all the correct and up to date drivers for me, you can look at the trial vers first.
Look here for driver detective

This post has been edited by bobhome: May 5 2008, 11:44 AM

[Renzoblade]

^ i tried memtest and it showed no errors,the ram is ok , also someone on another forum told me my AGP port could be bust, but ill try driver detective, i hope its drivers!!, dont want to buy a new motherboard, because their all PCI-E right?, my AGP X8 Card wont work, so ill end up buying a new videocard aswell.


EDIT:

i got this




wow lol


is there a free program like this?, cant download anything without buying it

This post has been edited by Renzoblade: May 6 2008, 03:18 AM

[Renzoblade]

In device manager,i installed my tv tuner,and some question marks disapeared, so theres nothing that needs fixing in device manager,but with driver detective, still the same problems.

This post has been edited by Renzoblade: May 6 2008, 06:49 AM

[bobhome]

In device manager,i installed my tv tuner,and some question marks disapeared, so theres nothing that needs fixing in device manager,but with driver detective, still the same problems.

Hi,
When my sound would not work, there were no yellow exclamation marks in my device manager, it only worked when the driver was updated, I am not sure but I think it was something to do with sp2. when you buy driver detective, you only pay once, all the drivers are then free. mine still shows some red marked for the drivers but they work, like my mouse and keyboard so I have not updated those. have you tried uninstalling you video card then reinstalling it, sometimes that works.

[Renzoblade]

oh ok, cool, thanks for the help, today while taking out my ram, the pc wouldent turn on, power would turn on but no display on the monitor, so i made some calls, then i was told take the graphics card out,and bam, works, and my games work, so it looks like its a faulty AGP port, which makes my 6200 which is only a few months old useless, because now im going to upgrade new motherboard,cpu and a pci-e card, had enough of this pc Lol.

Thanks for the help .

[Aadhera]

i have two faulty boards also.. but mine have the classic jail bar problem.. has this issue been fixed nowadays? is there a way around it?

[Grin]

i have two faulty boards also.. but mine have the classic jail bar problem.. has this issue been fixed nowadays? is there a way around it?

if you buy a videocard it comes with warranty right?