NERDS - HELP!
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19 Apr 2010, 23:01
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Hi crossies.
I need help.. failing that just an idea of what the hell is wrong here...
2 days ago i first experienced this... i opened a program and i got black and red pixels all over the screen.. which crashed my pc and i had to press the reset button to reboot... after a couple of reboots and a little mess around inside the pc, i was back up and running again...
Now i have a perminent pale red squiggly line constellation on my screen. luckily i have another pc 3 feet away which im writing from now..
My honest opinion is that it is my graphics card.. in which i would be moderately pissed as it has expired from its warranty about 2 weeks ago..
I have a BFG 8800GT OC as standard.
Since the first error, the problem has gone, then come back etc etc, regularly crashing when i start ET.
to be totally honest, i played for about 3 hours last night with the side of the case off, with a 12" fan keeping the insides cool..
obviously this is at defaults.. i have installed the original drivers from the disk i got the card with... however to no avail.
Anyone had this problem with a gfx card before?
Just lookin for ideas really... if it is the card.. i may aswell look for a new rig, in which case some ideas of a relatively cheap but good performing rig wont go without thanks.
Thanks crossies :)
I need help.. failing that just an idea of what the hell is wrong here...
2 days ago i first experienced this... i opened a program and i got black and red pixels all over the screen.. which crashed my pc and i had to press the reset button to reboot... after a couple of reboots and a little mess around inside the pc, i was back up and running again...
Now i have a perminent pale red squiggly line constellation on my screen. luckily i have another pc 3 feet away which im writing from now..
My honest opinion is that it is my graphics card.. in which i would be moderately pissed as it has expired from its warranty about 2 weeks ago..
I have a BFG 8800GT OC as standard.
Since the first error, the problem has gone, then come back etc etc, regularly crashing when i start ET.
to be totally honest, i played for about 3 hours last night with the side of the case off, with a 12" fan keeping the insides cool..
obviously this is at defaults.. i have installed the original drivers from the disk i got the card with... however to no avail.
Anyone had this problem with a gfx card before?
Just lookin for ideas really... if it is the card.. i may aswell look for a new rig, in which case some ideas of a relatively cheap but good performing rig wont go without thanks.
Thanks crossies :)
hmm... I think you're GPU is gone .. it pretty seems like it does because my friend had nearly the exact problems like you :/
I hope for you it isn't and that I'm totally wrong :D
I think you have the same shit going on.
Same as reV ofc, I hope that I'm wrong.
Gl in finding another solution than buying another GPU :o
is the screen borked at boot already? or only when windows starts? if the latter, reinstall.
which indicates that its a hardware fault im aware of..
i have deleted all of my gpu drivers, i will reinstall all of those and reboot. if its still here, think il just accept that its fucked...?
will have to see what the trick is... for the price i payed (at the time) for the gfx card.. when it was brand new... i may aswell just get a new pc.
u got any ideas of a nice new shiny pc for me to purchase within the next week or so?
cheap as possible... just good enough to play games and shit..
basically if it can run HoN and ET maxed out, im a happy bunny.
any ideas for parts? just name them and give a link..
i dont wanna spend anything over 300 euros.. as i dont feel thats necessary for what i use the pc for..
ET + porn.
Mind putting specs of ur pc?
just lookin at getting a new rig tbh.
any ideas? im gonna keep my monitor, speakers etc etc.. so just need the base unit, failing that just the parts as i have tower i can use to build with.
ive had skydeh lookin for me today. best he could come up with was a £300 build, just a little over my plans.
i would have more money to spend on it, however this couldnt have happened at a worse time. im saving for my holiday which i have in 9 weeks! and my car has just hit me with a £200 repair :<
id like a core 2 duo processor. but skydeh has the idea of an i5 in my head now... an i5 would be preferrable... however the motherboard would need to be better to run the i5 than the core 2 duo right?
i already have a cooler master 650w power supply that works great.
I will prob pm u later with some lists of specs, when my friends come and we pick some good stuffs.
e: whats ur budget limits?
My absolute limit for budget is 300-350 euros... as i have other parts that a full new desktop pc would cost more for (like monitor etc)
if it means im forced to settle for the core 2 duo, im more than happy. as thats more than enough to run ET at max and cod4 etc at a reasonable level.
Ive noticed there is a intel i3 processor.. they up to much good? never really heard about them.
I would prefer to pay around 250 euros for the parts. i can get someone to build it here for free no probs.
Thanks again bud!
he said also that i5 isnt that good and that the price is quite high, so we would both recommend more to go on AMD quad core processors.
from him:
Since hes from usa time zone he will check it out, while we will sleep so expect tomorow answer from me about the specs.
just need something that will indefinately run ET 125 stable at all times and play a few new easy to run games.. :D il be a happy bunny then!