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Gigabyte GeForce 8600 GT faulty, doesn't boot anymore?! - 2007/11/19 03:53
Hey guys... I read through another hardware forums and saw that this forum was highly recommended for its help. Basically, I just recently purchased a Gigabyte GeForce 8600 GT 512MB DDR2 card. I was wrapped to put it in and finally play games without any problems... My previous card appeared to be faulty, it came with the system and was an ATI Radeon X600 256MB PCI Express. It overheats bad and requires that I have a fan directly on it to not hang during games and the performance is choppy. I would get artifacts on the screen and then a your video card is not responding message or a VPU recovery error.
Anyway, so I put in the new card, install the new drivers, no dramas so far. Never Winter Nights 2 came with the card, much to my joy, I love the series. So I installed it. I did some reading online and having only 1GB of ram, decided I should investigate to see what kind of memory I need and can use with my motherboard, so I downloaded PC Wizard 2008 and checked. Anyway, so I restart my computer for about the 3rd or 4th time having put in the new card, and bam, no video output. The monitor is not responding to the video card and there's just plain, no display. I restarted many times, still no response.
I took it out, put it back in...no work. Put in the old card, I get a display, but am met with a blue screen of death. I restart and it appears to work with my old video card hence me typing this message now. Note, I did remove all drivers before installing new GeForce 8600 GT ones. t's a black screen from the start. No video whatsoever whilst the new card is in. However, what was strange is that I could boot it a few times and it would work fine...
Ugh anybody have any idea what to do? Would it be the card or is my system out of date? I bought it about 2 nearly 3 years ago... I'm contemplating just buying a new motherboard if it would solve the problem. Cheers guys, this is extremely frustrating... Thanks!
System Specifications...
- Abit AG8 (Intel Grantsdale ICH6R) Mainboard
- Unknown 2x 512MB DDR Dual Channem Memory
- Intel Pentium 4 540J at 3.2GHz Processor
- Seagate 160GB Hard Disk
- Antec 350W (Model SL350) Power SUpply
- Microsoft Windows XP Pro SP2
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