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Yantorsen · 06-30-2009, 04:31 PM

The Problem...

I was happily listening to music and browsing the web on my PC and when it suddenly froze and the colours went funny, then the screen went black, I was waiting for the BSOD but it never happened, so I turned the machine off. I rebooted it and the machine appeared to be making a noise as if it were on but the screen remained black (as if it were just on standby and recieving no signal, with the orange light on rather than green on the screen itself). So I swapped the DVI output I was using on the back of the GPU, which I thought had worked, but when I got to the log in screen it appeared to have funny green dots all over the screen, then it eventually froze when I tried to log in. So again rebooted (turned the mains off and on again etc.) and I just got a black screen again like the last time, and now that is all it does.

What I have already tried...

I have tried reseating the GPU, which didn't help at all, I haven't tried a different DVI cable because I don't have one, but because it worked for a little bit when I switched ports I'm thinking it's probably the something in the computer tower (GPU, CPU, MOBO, RAM etc.) rather than the screen or DVI cable.

System Specs...

Vista Home Pemium 64-bit
Q6600 with a Tuniq Tower
8800GTX
OCZ PC5300 2x2GB
Gigabyte P35C-DS3R
Corsair HX520
WD AAKS HDD

The Q6600 was overclocked to 3GHz until about 6 months ago when I stopped playing Crysis.

So basically, what can I do, and does it sound like a graphics card failure?

Thanks for your time.

06-30-2009, 04:31 PM	#1 (permalink)
Yantorsen Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 34 OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit	[SOLVED] Has my 8800GTX just died? The Problem... I was happily listening to music and browsing the web on my PC and when it suddenly froze and the colours went funny, then the screen went black, I was waiting for the BSOD but it never happened, so I turned the machine off. I rebooted it and the machine appeared to be making a noise as if it were on but the screen remained black (as if it were just on standby and recieving no signal, with the orange light on rather than green on the screen itself). So I swapped the DVI output I was using on the back of the GPU, which I thought had worked, but when I got to the log in screen it appeared to have funny green dots all over the screen, then it eventually froze when I tried to log in. So again rebooted (turned the mains off and on again etc.) and I just got a black screen again like the last time, and now that is all it does. What I have already tried... I have tried reseating the GPU, which didn't help at all, I haven't tried a different DVI cable because I don't have one, but because it worked for a little bit when I switched ports I'm thinking it's probably the something in the computer tower (GPU, CPU, MOBO, RAM etc.) rather than the screen or DVI cable. System Specs... Vista Home Pemium 64-bit Q6600 with a Tuniq Tower 8800GTX OCZ PC5300 2x2GB Gigabyte P35C-DS3R Corsair HX520 WD AAKS HDD The Q6600 was overclocked to 3GHz until about 6 months ago when I stopped playing Crysis. So basically, what can I do, and does it sound like a graphics card failure? Thanks for your time.