- Oct 16, 2004
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As most of you probably know, I've been having video problems as of late. You can read my whole story in my thread LOLWTFBBQ. Well, I decided to do a reformat in case it was a software problem, and well, it got worse. Here is exactly what I did, in this order:
Formatted partition C: (100GB), installed a clean installation of XP Pro. Everything went very smoothly.
Booted to XP for the first time, display was crystal clear with no problems at all. The first thing I did was install the motherboard chipset drivers, latest ones straight from nVidia's website. Installs perfectly.
Then I install the latest video drivers, 71.89, straight from nVidia's website. Everything is good.
Install the rest of my drivers, Logitech mouseware, Soundblaster drivers, D-Link wireless internet card adapter. But I noticed that everything was so big, so I went to change the resolution of my monitor from 800x600 to 1024x768 or whatever.
As soon as I change it, this is what happens. The picture makes it look a lot worse than it really is for some reason, there really are no green dots on the desktop itself but the start menu is completely f0x0red. And so are the system tray icons, just like in the pic.
I panic, go to change the resolution back, but the crap stays around. I try every different resolution, with all kinds of refresh rates, still crap. I change my AGP to 4x, turn off AGP Fastwrites, but to no avail.
In my earlier thread, many people suggested it was my video card overheating. I was convinced that wasn't the case, however, since RTHDRIBL only took my card temperature up to about 70 degrees. But now things are different, I barely even installed Windows and this crap is showing up.
So I open my computer case up, and place my hand above the video card, where there are no fans. The thing is quite warm to the touch. I also noticed that my airflow is somewhat limited in this area. So I quickly drop in a 120mm fan to blow air across this area and towards the exhaust, boot up, but still, crap everywhere.
I'm sitting here in the middle of the godamn night trying to figure out what's going on, and many questions come a-popping into my head. Could the video card core be cool but the rest of the card be frying and I don't notice? Could it be my monitor? Could it have something to do with my ram?
And in case my video card is dying...I had replaced the hs/f on the video card to an NV5, and I don't remember if there was a "VOID" sticker on it. If I change the hs/f back, could I still RMA it if need be?
I'm panicking, someone please help!
CLIFFS:
-Reformat computer.
-Install all necessary drivers (mobo chipset, video, mouse, sound, internet)
-Change resolution from 8x6 to 10x7 and the *pic* happens.
-Try all kinds of different resolutions and refresh rates but crap still there.
-Try lowering to AGP 4x, turning off fastwrites, still borked.
-Opened up case, felt the top of video card (the part with no heatsink or fan) and is warm to touch. I place a 120mm fan over it to blow air over it. Dunno if it lowered the temps but the display is still bad.
-^Questions^
Formatted partition C: (100GB), installed a clean installation of XP Pro. Everything went very smoothly.
Booted to XP for the first time, display was crystal clear with no problems at all. The first thing I did was install the motherboard chipset drivers, latest ones straight from nVidia's website. Installs perfectly.
Then I install the latest video drivers, 71.89, straight from nVidia's website. Everything is good.
Install the rest of my drivers, Logitech mouseware, Soundblaster drivers, D-Link wireless internet card adapter. But I noticed that everything was so big, so I went to change the resolution of my monitor from 800x600 to 1024x768 or whatever.
As soon as I change it, this is what happens. The picture makes it look a lot worse than it really is for some reason, there really are no green dots on the desktop itself but the start menu is completely f0x0red. And so are the system tray icons, just like in the pic.
I panic, go to change the resolution back, but the crap stays around. I try every different resolution, with all kinds of refresh rates, still crap. I change my AGP to 4x, turn off AGP Fastwrites, but to no avail.
In my earlier thread, many people suggested it was my video card overheating. I was convinced that wasn't the case, however, since RTHDRIBL only took my card temperature up to about 70 degrees. But now things are different, I barely even installed Windows and this crap is showing up.
So I open my computer case up, and place my hand above the video card, where there are no fans. The thing is quite warm to the touch. I also noticed that my airflow is somewhat limited in this area. So I quickly drop in a 120mm fan to blow air across this area and towards the exhaust, boot up, but still, crap everywhere.
I'm sitting here in the middle of the godamn night trying to figure out what's going on, and many questions come a-popping into my head. Could the video card core be cool but the rest of the card be frying and I don't notice? Could it be my monitor? Could it have something to do with my ram?
And in case my video card is dying...I had replaced the hs/f on the video card to an NV5, and I don't remember if there was a "VOID" sticker on it. If I change the hs/f back, could I still RMA it if need be?
I'm panicking, someone please help!
CLIFFS:
-Reformat computer.
-Install all necessary drivers (mobo chipset, video, mouse, sound, internet)
-Change resolution from 8x6 to 10x7 and the *pic* happens.
-Try all kinds of different resolutions and refresh rates but crap still there.
-Try lowering to AGP 4x, turning off fastwrites, still borked.
-Opened up case, felt the top of video card (the part with no heatsink or fan) and is warm to touch. I place a 120mm fan over it to blow air over it. Dunno if it lowered the temps but the display is still bad.
-^Questions^