Hi peoples,
Does anyone know whether this is a problem with the video card?
please see attachment. (2 pics of my desktop)
notice the vertical lines on the screen?
specs:
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS
Video card driver: vga, ver: 5.01.2600.0000
Lol thats what I thourght, time for an upgrade i guess. I was just asking incase it might be the motherboard or something else, so i don't go and waste my money fixing it .
%99.9 it's the graphics card! I have seen symptoms like that before and it was always a failing graphics card, usually caused by overheating.
If it had been your monitor then it wouldn't have shown up in the screenshots.
Just a thought, I take it you have a decent PSU?
One other thing. PC World would have blamed just about every component in your PC and charged hundreds to fix it.
Last edited by Rik from RCE; Aug 16th, 2009 at 7:15 am.
Cool. It's the 1 component that gets overlooked the most but is very very important.
Get this, a friend of a friend is running a dual core system with 3gig of ram and a high end graphics card and it crashes every time a game is started.
Turns out it has a 130watt PSU in it. I am surprised it's able to start at all!!
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