speedkillsuk

Hi,
I'm going to start this thread with a warning - I'm pretty much a n00b when it comes to hardware and I don't really know what I'm doing, so be patient with me.

Anyway, I bought an Xpert Vision Geforce 8800 gt sonic 512mb about a year ago with the intention of getting a new pc at the same time so I could play some decent games. I didn't get a new pc until about a month ago, so I've only really been using it properly for about a month too (I couldn't really play any demanding games on my old system). Everything was working fine (been playing Fallout 3, Assassin's Creed etc with decent frame rates) until 2 days ago, when out of the blue Fallout 3 completely froze. It did a strange thing where it froze in such a way that there were streaks of colour across the screen in various places and random artifacts dotted all around the screen. Also the music continued to play for about 5 seconds before itself crashed and started to loop. Anyway I've tried to play numerous games since, and it freezes at the slightest hint of any complex graphics. I can play 2D games and things like old school Quake and DN3D, but anything else freezes.

I've reinstalled the newest drivers for the card and directx. I've also used rivatuner to check on the GPU temperature and it seems to be fine (max 50, even right before a crash). My only other thought is that the card has simply just broken, but I don't really want to accept that as I can't afford to get a new one. Any ideas?

My specs:

> Mainboard : Asus M2A-VM

> Chipset : AMD RS690/RS690M

> Processor : AMD Phenom X4 9550 @ 2200 MHz

> Physical Memory : 2048 MB (1 x 2048 DDR2-SDRAM )

> Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

> Hard Disk : ST3250310AS (250 GB)

> DVD-Rom Drive : Optiarc DVD RW AD-7201A

> DVD-Rom Drive : GPWLKB 2VK9IRKT SCSI CdRom Device

> Monitor Type : XM3-19wB - 19 inches

> Network Card : Realtek Semiconductor RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC

> Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.01.2600 Service Pack 3

> DirectX : Version 9.0c (October 2008)

Thanks

emosun

Welsome to tsf. Whats the powersupply your useing?