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Graphic card issues: pixelating blinking
Ok I need some advice. I have an old rig going strong for years:
E6400 oc'd, 4gig RAM, EVGA 8800 GTS 640meg, Win 7 ulra 64bit, the entire rig runs very cool.
I am building a new rig so i let my friend have this one, it runs many games, most in high quality, never a problem for years.
He installed DDO max settings, and all hell broke loose after he got in game for the first time. Now any time the card is pushed (i.e start any game or watch videos, etc) the screen blinks twice and pixelates, then crashes.
I ran him through reinstalling drivers, restarting in safe mode, using drive sweeper to completely remove drivers, then reinstall latest nvidia drivers. Nothing helps. Everytime he runs the performance index in Windows 7 it warns him of an error with the graphic display drivers and gives the graphics a 1.0 score.
I ran him through most basic troubleshooting procedures to no avail. Could it be a directx issue? I am about ready to just have him reinstall win7 fresh. But a part of me thinks the graphic card is messed up, but if the gfx card was the issue wouldnt it not turn on at all?
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How dusty is the card? I once got something similar when the fan was close to jamming. :P
fan is running smooth and the card remains cool. still graphic problems whenever any game is booted up
Sounds faulty GPU/video RAM.. but it could be the PSU not kicking in enough power when it tries to clock up for 3d. First I'd toss the video card into your PC to verify the card is dying, then if it's still under warranty I'd start looking into that.