8800gt just bit the dust

[velusip]

I had an EVGA 8800gt 512MiB die on me just now. I plugged in an older Diamond 3850 256MiB for now... This really sucks during the holidays since I spent a lot of money on gifts and don't really want to replace it.

The Details:
When I turn my computer on it boots up, everything looks normal, then when starting up the last couple processes (one being some nVidia executable) the whole screen turns into a pattern of artifacts and nothing is displayed outside of a moving mouse pointer. I can move it around, but nothing else will display. The thing has been running great until just now.

Anyone hear of that one before? Simple fixes?

 

[bholstege]

sounds like the RAM went bad. You could try underclocking the RAM, but it would be a temporary fix. RMA it.

 

[velusip]

hehe, found a bug on the web-site while processing the RMA. Can't submit until they fix it, so just waiting for them to respond to my bug report :/

In any case, going to go see how well EVE runs on this 3850 thing.

 

[velusip]

well that's unsettling. It's only a few FPS lower. Down to 78 from 83.

 

[Ryle]

i have 2 unused EVGA 8800GTs on my desk. ill tell them the bad news so they can morn the loss of one of their own.

QQ he will be missed.