So today I was minding my own business playing Aion, when all of a sudden I the screen filled up with green pixels, turned into a kaleidoscope, then went black. Music and sound still worked, so I assume it's the vid card (nVidia 6800 Ultra, it's 5 years old). The heatsink had a lot of dust in it, and was blazing hot to the touch, so I'm assuming something is cooked.

I cleaned it out and let it sit. It's sort of working now, except the screen turns black every 5 seconds and CPU usage spikes to 100%.

Video card fucked, right? or is it something more serious?

lucky for me I literally have an entire new set of parts in the mail right now.

10/11/2009 11:10:47 PM

sounds like the video card is over heating. If you're getting new parts you can always swap video cards and eliminate anything else as the issue.

10/13/2009 6:44:45 PM

I ended up just throwing the GTX 295 in here for the time being


hooooly shit I had no idea what I was missing

10/16/2009 10:33:06 PM

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