As I said, the gfx card will go black, and then recover a few seconds later when playing games. Used to just completely lock the PC and occasionaly still does.
Did you recently update your drivers?
Sometimes newer nVidia drivers fuck up older cards and make them really unstable. It happened once on my 8600GT and happened for a long time on my GTX 260, I couldn't update past a certain release or else it would do pretty much exactly what you described. I don't remember if they ever even fixed it or not, I think I just gave up on new drivers till I got a newer card that didn't do that anymore
Sometimes newer nVidia drivers fuck up older cards and make them really unstable. It happened once on my 8600GT and happened for a long time on my GTX 260, I couldn't update past a certain release or else it would do pretty much exactly what you described. I don't remember if they ever even fixed it or not, I think I just gave up on new drivers till I got a newer card that didn't do that anymore
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I had new drivers kill a 8800 GTS. Never update your drivers on old hardware
Could be that, its been doing it for a few sets of new drivers. Maybe up to a year now. Sometimes its better than not
Same problem I had then, just stay with the most stable recent release until you get a new card or new computer
on it
Dinking around with a later driver than what was recommended is what fried one of my old NVIDIA cards back in the early 00's, but it gave me the excuse I wanted to go upgrade. [obvious] NVIDIA's website has a handy little tool that tells you the latest you should use for what you have, automatically or through user input. [/obvious]
i think mods should have passed the Comptia A+ test to be able to post in this section . . .
To my memory, the card in question was a Ti 4600 or 4800 and no longer capable of running what I wanted it to, so I felt free to experiment with it.it gave me the excuse I wanted to go upgrade.
An A+ is a bottom-of-the-barrel certification that you can get with, to my recollection, a small bit of your time and a handful of flash cards for prep. It only proves minimal effort on the holder's part. Despite the fact that I still keep one in my wallet for some reason, I don't think it particularly makes you any more qualified than an experienced hobbyist to talk about computers. So I certainly wouldn't anchor any snark or air of superiority with it.
A+, Network+ and Security+ are only good for three years before you have to get retested now if you got yours after 2010. Super annoying money-grubbing shit
I wouldn't actually mind, except they want a ridiculous sum for each test, and they can add up rather quickly. Overpriced I think, compared to their actual value on a resume. Not my business any longer though, so it's someone else's first world problem.