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video garbage, system continually reboots
I have a 4-year home-built PC running Windows XP SP2 which contains the
following: P4 2.8MHz Gigabyte GA-8IK1100 motherboard LeadTek 6800 GT 256MB AGP graphics card 1 GB Corsair memory The machine has operated flawlessly until this morning when video garbage started to appear on the screen. It will now only reach the desktop (with video garbage shown on the startup screens) and then immediately proceeds to reboot. I examined the inside and noticed the chipset fan was not spinning. I'm not sure how long the fan has been dead, but I ran out and bought a replacement. At first the new fan appeared to have solved the problem (video garbage gone, no more involuntary rebooting), but soon after it started acting up again (even with the spinning new chipset fan.) I tried leaving the machine powered off for a long while. At first this seemed to help for a short time (which might suggest a heat-related problem), but now garbage appears immediately on bootup--even after a long cool-down time. I'm wondering if something has now become permanently fried. The machine previously never ran hot and lives in a temperature-controlled room. The inside of the case is cleaned regularly. I tried reseating the video card, but it didn't make a difference. I don't have access to another AGP video card to test with. I'm wondering if anyone has experience something similar before and what you did to solve it. All comments/suggestions sincerely appreciated. |
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"Bosconian" wrote in message . .. I have a 4-year home-built PC running Windows XP SP2 which contains the following: P4 2.8MHz Gigabyte GA-8IK1100 motherboard LeadTek 6800 GT 256MB AGP graphics card 1 GB Corsair memory The machine has operated flawlessly until this morning when video garbage started to appear on the screen. It will now only reach the desktop (with video garbage shown on the startup screens) and then immediately proceeds to reboot. I examined the inside and noticed the chipset fan was not spinning. I'm not sure how long the fan has been dead, but I ran out and bought a replacement. At first the new fan appeared to have solved the problem (video garbage gone, no more involuntary rebooting), but soon after it started acting up again (even with the spinning new chipset fan.) I tried leaving the machine powered off for a long while. At first this seemed to help for a short time (which might suggest a heat-related problem), but now garbage appears immediately on bootup--even after a long cool-down time. I'm wondering if something has now become permanently fried. The machine previously never ran hot and lives in a temperature-controlled room. The inside of the case is cleaned regularly. I tried reseating the video card, but it didn't make a difference. I don't have access to another AGP video card to test with. I'm wondering if anyone has experience something similar before and what you did to solve it. All comments/suggestions sincerely appreciated. The 6800GT is not a cool running card and needs active cooling. Video garbage suggests that the GPU is damaged from overheating. |
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video garbage, system continually reboots
"Bosconian" wrote in message
. .. I have a 4-year home-built PC running Windows XP SP2 which contains the following: P4 2.8MHz Gigabyte GA-8IK1100 motherboard LeadTek 6800 GT 256MB AGP graphics card 1 GB Corsair memory The machine has operated flawlessly until this morning when video garbage started to appear on the screen. It will now only reach the desktop (with video garbage shown on the startup screens) and then immediately proceeds to reboot. I examined the inside and noticed the chipset fan was not spinning. I'm not sure how long the fan has been dead, but I ran out and bought a replacement. At first the new fan appeared to have solved the problem (video garbage gone, no more involuntary rebooting), but soon after it started acting up again (even with the spinning new chipset fan.) I tried leaving the machine powered off for a long while. At first this seemed to help for a short time (which might suggest a heat-related problem), but now garbage appears immediately on bootup--even after a long cool-down time. I'm wondering if something has now become permanently fried. The machine previously never ran hot and lives in a temperature-controlled room. The inside of the case is cleaned regularly. I tried reseating the video card, but it didn't make a difference. I don't have access to another AGP video card to test with. I'm wondering if anyone has experience something similar before and what you did to solve it. All comments/suggestions sincerely appreciated. False alarm. Turns out it was just corrupt video drivers. Shame of me. I jumped to conclusions and immediately assumed it was a hardware issue. The dead chipset fan (which has probably been dead for a long while) was just a coincidence, but diverted my attention and took me down a wrong path. Anyway, sorry to have wasted everyone's time. |
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"Bosconian" wrote in message
. .. "Bosconian" wrote in message . .. I have a 4-year home-built PC running Windows XP SP2 which contains the following: P4 2.8MHz Gigabyte GA-8IK1100 motherboard LeadTek 6800 GT 256MB AGP graphics card 1 GB Corsair memory The machine has operated flawlessly until this morning when video garbage started to appear on the screen. It will now only reach the desktop (with video garbage shown on the startup screens) and then immediately proceeds to reboot. I examined the inside and noticed the chipset fan was not spinning. I'm not sure how long the fan has been dead, but I ran out and bought a replacement. At first the new fan appeared to have solved the problem (video garbage gone, no more involuntary rebooting), but soon after it started acting up again (even with the spinning new chipset fan.) I tried leaving the machine powered off for a long while. At first this seemed to help for a short time (which might suggest a heat-related problem), but now garbage appears immediately on bootup--even after a long cool-down time. I'm wondering if something has now become permanently fried. The machine previously never ran hot and lives in a temperature-controlled room. The inside of the case is cleaned regularly. I tried reseating the video card, but it didn't make a difference. I don't have access to another AGP video card to test with. I'm wondering if anyone has experience something similar before and what you did to solve it. All comments/suggestions sincerely appreciated. False alarm. Turns out it was just corrupt video drivers. Shame of me. I jumped to conclusions and immediately assumed it was a hardware issue. The dead chipset fan (which has probably been dead for a long while) was just a coincidence, but diverted my attention and took me down a wrong path. Anyway, sorry to have wasted everyone's time. Scratch that, the video garbage is back. Interestingly it went away after reinstalling the drivers, but the problem persists after rebooting. |
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"Fidelis K" wrote in message
... "Bosconian" wrote in message . .. I have a 4-year home-built PC running Windows XP SP2 which contains the following: P4 2.8MHz Gigabyte GA-8IK1100 motherboard LeadTek 6800 GT 256MB AGP graphics card 1 GB Corsair memory The machine has operated flawlessly until this morning when video garbage started to appear on the screen. It will now only reach the desktop (with video garbage shown on the startup screens) and then immediately proceeds to reboot. I examined the inside and noticed the chipset fan was not spinning. I'm not sure how long the fan has been dead, but I ran out and bought a replacement. At first the new fan appeared to have solved the problem (video garbage gone, no more involuntary rebooting), but soon after it started acting up again (even with the spinning new chipset fan.) I tried leaving the machine powered off for a long while. At first this seemed to help for a short time (which might suggest a heat-related problem), but now garbage appears immediately on bootup--even after a long cool-down time. I'm wondering if something has now become permanently fried. The machine previously never ran hot and lives in a temperature-controlled room. The inside of the case is cleaned regularly. I tried reseating the video card, but it didn't make a difference. I don't have access to another AGP video card to test with. I'm wondering if anyone has experience something similar before and what you did to solve it. All comments/suggestions sincerely appreciated. The 6800GT is not a cool running card and needs active cooling. Video garbage suggests that the GPU is damaged from overheating. Thanks for your reply. That's interesting. The card has never been overclocked and has worked flawlessly for two years. The chassis is well-ventilated and vacuumed regularly. You might be right, but it's just weird the card just now started giving me problems after all this time. Bottom line, you're suggesting the card needs to be replaced? |
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"Fidelis K" wrote in message
... "Bosconian" wrote in message . .. I have a 4-year home-built PC running Windows XP SP2 which contains the following: P4 2.8MHz Gigabyte GA-8IK1100 motherboard LeadTek 6800 GT 256MB AGP graphics card 1 GB Corsair memory The machine has operated flawlessly until this morning when video garbage started to appear on the screen. It will now only reach the desktop (with video garbage shown on the startup screens) and then immediately proceeds to reboot. I examined the inside and noticed the chipset fan was not spinning. I'm not sure how long the fan has been dead, but I ran out and bought a replacement. At first the new fan appeared to have solved the problem (video garbage gone, no more involuntary rebooting), but soon after it started acting up again (even with the spinning new chipset fan.) I tried leaving the machine powered off for a long while. At first this seemed to help for a short time (which might suggest a heat-related problem), but now garbage appears immediately on bootup--even after a long cool-down time. I'm wondering if something has now become permanently fried. The machine previously never ran hot and lives in a temperature-controlled room. The inside of the case is cleaned regularly. I tried reseating the video card, but it didn't make a difference. I don't have access to another AGP video card to test with. I'm wondering if anyone has experience something similar before and what you did to solve it. All comments/suggestions sincerely appreciated. The 6800GT is not a cool running card and needs active cooling. Video garbage suggests that the GPU is damaged from overheating. I just felt the graphics card and it feels very cool to the touch. You might not be familiar with this particular LeadTek card, but it has a huge brass heatsink and fan on it. As a result it runs relatively cool. You still might be right, but it just strikes me as odd. |
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video garbage, system continually reboots
"Fidelis K" wrote in message
... "Bosconian" wrote in message . .. I have a 4-year home-built PC running Windows XP SP2 which contains the following: P4 2.8MHz Gigabyte GA-8IK1100 motherboard LeadTek 6800 GT 256MB AGP graphics card 1 GB Corsair memory The machine has operated flawlessly until this morning when video garbage started to appear on the screen. It will now only reach the desktop (with video garbage shown on the startup screens) and then immediately proceeds to reboot. I examined the inside and noticed the chipset fan was not spinning. I'm not sure how long the fan has been dead, but I ran out and bought a replacement. At first the new fan appeared to have solved the problem (video garbage gone, no more involuntary rebooting), but soon after it started acting up again (even with the spinning new chipset fan.) I tried leaving the machine powered off for a long while. At first this seemed to help for a short time (which might suggest a heat-related problem), but now garbage appears immediately on bootup--even after a long cool-down time. I'm wondering if something has now become permanently fried. The machine previously never ran hot and lives in a temperature-controlled room. The inside of the case is cleaned regularly. I tried reseating the video card, but it didn't make a difference. I don't have access to another AGP video card to test with. I'm wondering if anyone has experience something similar before and what you did to solve it. All comments/suggestions sincerely appreciated. The 6800GT is not a cool running card and needs active cooling. Video garbage suggests that the GPU is damaged from overheating. Another note. I can successfully boot in safe mode (using generic video drivers), albeit with the same video garbage. |
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video garbage, system continually reboots
"Bosconian" wrote in message . .. "Fidelis K" wrote in message ... "Bosconian" wrote in message . .. I have a 4-year home-built PC running Windows XP SP2 which contains the following: P4 2.8MHz Gigabyte GA-8IK1100 motherboard LeadTek 6800 GT 256MB AGP graphics card 1 GB Corsair memory The machine has operated flawlessly until this morning when video garbage started to appear on the screen. It will now only reach the desktop (with video garbage shown on the startup screens) and then immediately proceeds to reboot. I examined the inside and noticed the chipset fan was not spinning. I'm not sure how long the fan has been dead, but I ran out and bought a replacement. At first the new fan appeared to have solved the problem (video garbage gone, no more involuntary rebooting), but soon after it started acting up again (even with the spinning new chipset fan.) I tried leaving the machine powered off for a long while. At first this seemed to help for a short time (which might suggest a heat-related problem), but now garbage appears immediately on bootup--even after a long cool-down time. I'm wondering if something has now become permanently fried. The machine previously never ran hot and lives in a temperature-controlled room. The inside of the case is cleaned regularly. I tried reseating the video card, but it didn't make a difference. I don't have access to another AGP video card to test with. I'm wondering if anyone has experience something similar before and what you did to solve it. All comments/suggestions sincerely appreciated. The 6800GT is not a cool running card and needs active cooling. Video garbage suggests that the GPU is damaged from overheating. Thanks for your reply. That's interesting. The card has never been overclocked and has worked flawlessly for two years. The chassis is well-ventilated and vacuumed regularly. You might be right, but it's just weird the card just now started giving me problems after all this time. Bottom line, you're suggesting the card needs to be replaced? use the video card in another machine integrated video available? more than one stick of memory? remove one/swap if the garbage continues |
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Fidelis K wrote: "Bosconian" wrote in message . .. I have a 4-year home-built PC running Windows XP SP2 which contains the following: P4 2.8MHz Gigabyte GA-8IK1100 motherboard LeadTek 6800 GT 256MB AGP graphics card 1 GB Corsair memory The machine has operated flawlessly until this morning when video garbage started to appear on the screen. It will now only reach the desktop (with video garbage shown on the startup screens) and then immediately proceeds to reboot. I examined the inside and noticed the chipset fan was not spinning. I'm not sure how long the fan has been dead, but I ran out and bought a replacement. At first the new fan appeared to have solved the problem (video garbage gone, no more involuntary rebooting), but soon after it started acting up again (even with the spinning new chipset fan.) I tried leaving the machine powered off for a long while. At first this seemed to help for a short time (which might suggest a heat-related problem), but now garbage appears immediately on bootup--even after a long cool-down time. I'm wondering if something has now become permanently fried. ... Can you pull the graphics card and try running off the native vid support on the MB? |
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video garbage, system continually reboots
Another note. I can successfully boot in safe mode (using generic video drivers), albeit with the same video garbage. I had a similar problem with an ATI AIW 9800 Pro. Video garbage, wouldn't post or boot. Installed a ATI 7500 and the PC ran fine. RMA'ed the card and received a *new* one within 2 weeks. Haven't tried it yet as I am satified with the 7500. Just my .02. Louie Gainesville, FL (eat the flies to email) |
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