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Zotac GeForce 8800 GT, strange behaviour of video cards? - 2008/03/30 08:30 Hey, I have been battling with a Zotac GeForce 8800 GT in an Abit IX38. I thought I had it figured out by upgrading the power supply to an Antec Quattro 850W. Everything worked well for two days. Then I reset my Ubuntu box and got nothing. I removed my graphics card and replaced it with an ATI Radeon X700 PRO and the machine works well. So at least the expensive stuff was okay. I did manage to put a dint in my mirror P182SE in the excitement.

Now I switched the card to an old Windows machine using an ASUS P5GD2 Deluxe and at least it boots up, however the NVIDIA drivers do not work at all and on the video drivers there are cyan and magenta vertical strips on the screen. It seems to me that there has been some sort of memory corruption. So I wonder if a BIOS flash may fix it or is it better to RMA the product?

For you info, I have overclocked nothing on the machine as I need this unit to be ultra stable, it controls an image processing pipeline. Any advice would be great!
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Re:Zotac GeForce 8800 GT, strange behaviour of video cards? - 2008/03/30 10:32 Strange thing indeed, and normally a GeForce 8800 GT doesn't need a 850W power supply as I am running it all fine and stable on a 500W with a Core 2 Duo E6700 which is overclocked. So what we would like is your original BIOS of that Zotac card, can you make a backup and attach it on this thread than we will have a look at it. If the BIOS is fine than I would suggest to go for the RMA cause if there are artifacts due to the memory it will never get fixed with flashing the BIOS.
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Re:Zotac GeForce 8800 GT, strange behaviour of video cards? - 2008/03/30 12:48 Thanks for the rapid response. Here is the BIOS from my graphics card. Also the strange stripes that appear only on the white area.
Zotac GeForce 8800 GT 512MB Edition
- Memory : 512MB
- Bus Type : PCI Express
File Attachment:
File name: zotac88gt-512mb-mabawsa.rar
File size:39296 bytes
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Re:Zotac GeForce 8800 GT, strange behaviour of video cards? - 2008/03/31 19:55 mabawsa wrote:
Thanks for the rapid response. Here is the BIOS from my graphics card. Also the strange stripes that appear only on the white area.
Well I have checked the BIOS and there is nothing wrong with it and is just the same as those that we have received already from Zotac or from other brands. So I would feel that this has to do with some failing memory chips causing the artifacts. And yes an RMA is something that I would do now...
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