Graphic or Motherbord fail

[Ughmahedhurtz]

The last time I saw wierd stripes or wacky artifacts like you describe was due to a memory chip going bad on the video card. Overheating can do that to a point but usually it doesn't do it from a standing boot as it takes a little while for the GPU to heat up to those temps.

Do you have a 2nd PC you can test your video card in? Or a 2nd video card you can try in your PC? That's really the only way to isolate the failure for sure.

[Selz]

The last time I saw wierd stripes or wacky artifacts like you describe was due to a memory chip going bad on the video card. Overheating can do that to a point but usually it doesn't do it from a standing boot as it takes a little while for the GPU to heat up to those temps.

Do you have a 2nd PC you can test your video card in? Or a 2nd video card you can try in your PC? That's really the only way to isolate the failure for sure.

Sadly I dont have a 2nd pc that support PCI card so I cant test it, and the pc was born with this card so I dont have a 2nd either.

the "wacky artifacts" comes as soon as i boot up so does the blue stribes

[Selz]

I was wonderring if I could take out the graphic card and then turn on my pc to see if its a motherbord failure ?
in that case the stribes would still be there, and the wired text/symbols
Can I do that?

[Naysayer]

boot it with the onboard video.

[Naysayer]

I was wonderring if I could take out the graphic card and then turn on my pc to see if its a motherbord failure ?
in that case the stribes would still be there, and the wired text/symbols
Can I do that?

yes, just take out the card.

[Drommon]

I was wonderring if I could take out the graphic card and then turn on my pc to see if its a motherbord failure ?
in that case the stribes would still be there, and the wired text/symbols
Can I do that?

If your mobo has a vga/dvi port built onto it (meaning native graphics on mobo) then yes. Since you reformatted you could try to clear the cmos and drain the caps. Unplug the computer, unplug the power supply from mobo and remove the cmos battery on the mobo. Press and hold the cmos reset button until the caps drain. This takes about 2 min. Only do this if you have a cmos reset button. This procedure will reset the mobo. Put the battery back in, connect power supply and start it up with the GPU card in. Sometimes high heat can cause strange artifacts to show up on screen. I have found that a "system reset" generally clears things up. If you machine does come back to life, I strongly suggest you monitor temps of critical components and stop OCing if you are. If your machine doesn't come back to life, IMO, it is likely to be overheated (in order) gpu memory, GPU, mobo.

Or go to Fry's get a cheapo returnable gpu card, put it in, start it up. If all is fine, then its the gpu card. If not... then most likely mobo. Find the root cause, then return the gpu card (the one you bought for testing).

Drommon

[Powerwar]

Happened to me with the same video card model. Changed video card and now everything is back to normal.
I guess that the 8800 model just burns after working hardcore mode for long periods. Same thing happened to a friend of mine too.

Btw, my stribes were vertical green bars. After the card burned completely even the BIOS POST was getting the green bars. The only way to fix it was changing graphics card.

[alcattle]

Happened to me with the same video card model. Changed video card and now everything is back to normal.
I guess that the 8800 model just burns after working hardcore mode for long periods. Same thing happened to a friend of mine too.

Btw, my stribes were vertical green bars. After the card burned completely even the BIOS POST was getting the green bars. The only way to fix it was changing graphics card.

But this is WoW. WE aren't hardcore and never play for long periods