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I received an 8800 GTS 320mb (EVGA) as a gift about a year and a half ago and up until yesterday it was working perfectly. Unfortunately, yesterday I booted up a game (Warhammer) and about 5 minutes into playing the game froze with thin wavy red lines running down the screen. Powered off and rebooted, on the DOS Loading screen I immediately had different colored lines running down the center of the screen and when it loaded Windows things started going all wonky - red dots everywhere, colors being wrong, etc. Turned off the computer, took out the card, messed with the cables, etc, and it worked fine for about an hour and a half and then it started happening again - textures in game were being replaced with random other textures (for example, some ground texture was being replaced with texture from icons). Turned off the computer and went to sleep, this morning when I woke up I turned the computer back on and immediately was having the same issues when I booted Windows, eventually giving me a BSoD saying that nv4_disp.dll encoutered an error.
I tried switching the DVI ports on the card that the cable was plugged into, it seems to have helped it for about 10 minutes and then it happened again. I wiped my drivers and reinstalled so I don't think it's that.
I'm thinking it's the video card. I read that it might be overheating, but in the hour and a half that it was working I was closely watching the temperature and it never went above 68 degrees.
Another thing is that I received it as a gift after 30 days when it was purchased, and although the person who gave it to me said it was registered for the warranty it wasn't. I never got the receipt and threw out the box. The only thing I have is newegg's order history and of course the card itself with the serial number. Am I screwed, or is there still a chance for an RMA even though it's been over a year since the purchase date?
I tried switching the DVI ports on the card that the cable was plugged into, it seems to have helped it for about 10 minutes and then it happened again. I wiped my drivers and reinstalled so I don't think it's that.
I'm thinking it's the video card. I read that it might be overheating, but in the hour and a half that it was working I was closely watching the temperature and it never went above 68 degrees.
Another thing is that I received it as a gift after 30 days when it was purchased, and although the person who gave it to me said it was registered for the warranty it wasn't. I never got the receipt and threw out the box. The only thing I have is newegg's order history and of course the card itself with the serial number. Am I screwed, or is there still a chance for an RMA even though it's been over a year since the purchase date?