Hello all. I have been using these forums for various problems that me and my friends encounter. Your expertise and dedication in helping others has benefited us greatly in the past so thank you :smile:
Before beginning I would like to say English is not my first language so don't mind any mistakes if you find them please, also this will be a long wall of text so sorry for that :1angel:
I have recently came across a problem that I cant simply solve.
The pc I am using now has a very interesting history: a month ago it just suddenly shutdowns dead and I couldnt turn the darn thing on. It turns out the psu died because of the erratic power output of my city and it took the motherboard with it to the grave. I had no protection whatsoever so it was coming. Seeing this as an oportunity I updated my mobo, psu and monitor also got windows 7. Everything was fine until now.
Yesterday I suddenlly couldn't run the Game Overlord II and it came up with an nvdia physx error so I thought updating the driver would solve the issue.
Usually I remove the previous driver when updating and use a program like drivercleanerpro after starting in safe mode etc. However when I tryed to unistall nvdia display from the add/remove programs in windows, my screen went black and after a while the monitor went into power saving mode. Even though I update video drivers regularly this has never happaned before. Later I booted up in safe mode to complete the uninstallation process but monitor would go black in 15-30 seconds after boot, both in safe and normal modes. The only history that migh shed some light on this is that since buying the new system the monitor would sometimes randomly shutdown when I was on the computer but this was so rare i barely remeber it.
I was worried and wanted to get on the computer quick so in that short time frame (15-30 secs) in normal mode I installed the lastest drivers withouth uninstalling or doing a driver sweep and today the pc would not start at all.
All the lights fans and hard disk are operational but monitor is completely black, when its connected to the pc it just goes into power saving mode after a while, but if I unplug it, it asks me to check the display connection so when connected it recognises a connection. From what I have seen in other ppls threads this might be the goodbye song of my video card but I would like to evade buying a new one if possible.
Thing I have done:
-Cleaned all the fans and the case.
-Tried each ram stick separetly.
-Plugged the GPU to the secondary PCI-E slot.
-Cleaned the connecting parst of the GPU and motherboard with paint brush
-Tried the second vga access point of the GPU for the monitor.
I dont have a second monitor or GPU so I cant perform tests using those.
Any help would be much appriciated; thank you :smile:
My specs:
-Geforce 8800GT 512 Mb GPU (3 years old)
-MA790x-UD3P ver1.0 mobo (new)
-4 Gb (2x2) KIT 1066MHz DDR2 Hyperx PC2 8500 CL5 RAM (new)
-AMD Athlon 64 x2 6400+ CPU (3 years old)
-XILENCE XP700 PSU (new)
-Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
Before beginning I would like to say English is not my first language so don't mind any mistakes if you find them please, also this will be a long wall of text so sorry for that :1angel:
I have recently came across a problem that I cant simply solve.
The pc I am using now has a very interesting history: a month ago it just suddenly shutdowns dead and I couldnt turn the darn thing on. It turns out the psu died because of the erratic power output of my city and it took the motherboard with it to the grave. I had no protection whatsoever so it was coming. Seeing this as an oportunity I updated my mobo, psu and monitor also got windows 7. Everything was fine until now.
Yesterday I suddenlly couldn't run the Game Overlord II and it came up with an nvdia physx error so I thought updating the driver would solve the issue.
Usually I remove the previous driver when updating and use a program like drivercleanerpro after starting in safe mode etc. However when I tryed to unistall nvdia display from the add/remove programs in windows, my screen went black and after a while the monitor went into power saving mode. Even though I update video drivers regularly this has never happaned before. Later I booted up in safe mode to complete the uninstallation process but monitor would go black in 15-30 seconds after boot, both in safe and normal modes. The only history that migh shed some light on this is that since buying the new system the monitor would sometimes randomly shutdown when I was on the computer but this was so rare i barely remeber it.
I was worried and wanted to get on the computer quick so in that short time frame (15-30 secs) in normal mode I installed the lastest drivers withouth uninstalling or doing a driver sweep and today the pc would not start at all.
All the lights fans and hard disk are operational but monitor is completely black, when its connected to the pc it just goes into power saving mode after a while, but if I unplug it, it asks me to check the display connection so when connected it recognises a connection. From what I have seen in other ppls threads this might be the goodbye song of my video card but I would like to evade buying a new one if possible.
Thing I have done:
-Cleaned all the fans and the case.
-Tried each ram stick separetly.
-Plugged the GPU to the secondary PCI-E slot.
-Cleaned the connecting parst of the GPU and motherboard with paint brush
-Tried the second vga access point of the GPU for the monitor.
I dont have a second monitor or GPU so I cant perform tests using those.
Any help would be much appriciated; thank you :smile:
My specs:
-Geforce 8800GT 512 Mb GPU (3 years old)
-MA790x-UD3P ver1.0 mobo (new)
-4 Gb (2x2) KIT 1066MHz DDR2 Hyperx PC2 8500 CL5 RAM (new)
-AMD Athlon 64 x2 6400+ CPU (3 years old)
-XILENCE XP700 PSU (new)
-Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
