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Dead 6800?

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{ROW}Apocalypse

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I am having a little trouble with my graphics card. I was playing a little C&C Generals on Saturday, Everything was running well for about an hour and a half. I jumped out of the game to check the GPU temp as the room temp was about 90 degrees. The Nvidia control panel reported 77 degrees celuis. This is a little higher then I normally see but I didn't think it was too bad.

I then took a short break. When I came back I loaded up Generals which all worked fine until I got into the map. I got extreme texture corruption right away and the game locked. Alt-Ctrl-Del got me a BSoD that reported the driver had crashed. After a restart Windows came back up without any trouble. I tried running Dxdiag to see the status of my video drivers. The D3D tested restarted my computer. I then removed and reinstalled the drivers from safe mode and restarted. When I restarted I got video corruption on the boot screens and in the BIOS. Windows loaded to even more corruption.

I have tried the card in a different computer with the same video corruption even before Windows loads. I installed a POS AGP card (S3 Savage4) and it works without any trouble. Is there some program I can use to test my GPU and the memory on the card or is it just dead? Thanks for the help in advance.


Core system specs are as follows:

Motherboard: DFI LAN PARTY NF2 ultra B
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (Barton)
RAM: 1024 MB (512 X 2) Kingston HyperX DDR400
Graphics card: eVGA Geforce 6800 (dead?)
Cooling: Koolance EXOS liquid cooling system (CPU only)
 
the big question is have you messed with the vga bios? have u change the vid mem latencies? have U overvolted your card? and last but not least have U overclocked your vid card? let assume that U had, for the looks it could be a vid mem problem, that happened to me once with a Geforce 1 DDR, at the time i overclocked its memory to high to fast, 40 Mhz in one click, the same problems u have ,so dead Geforce... maybe, i resurrected it!!!

well first of all i submerged my vid card in liquid nitrogen (-196ºC) then slowly raised its temperature till room temp, after that and some heatsinks for the vid ram, my card was ALIVE!!, working just fine until i remove the ram heatsinks and the thing just went dead! but really dead! there are risks when u overclock, "expensive" risks
 
77degC? mine is running at 90degC! i think i'd better get that zalman
 
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