Gainward 6800GT

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nate2020

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Hi, I not so recently bought a Gainward 6800GT video card off of a local retailer. The other night I was playing through a game which was pretty demanding graphically. I saw no problems while playing exept for my case being a little bit hot (I have a temp gauge on the outside of my case). After I get done playing demanding games my case usually cools down quite quickly, after the cool down I shut my computer off for the night then woke up that next morning and turned my pc on to find a sleeping monitor (everything on the inside of pc was running just how it always has mind you, nothing was dead as in not running. Even the 6800 was running like it always has, just no picture.). I thought maybe this was a driver issue so I tried serveral kinds including the factory drivers. I would have thought if I had a overheat on my video it would have shut itself down before any harm came too it. The weird thing is that I had no auto shut down, I shut my pc off myself and it was working fine. Anyone have any tips for me? Thanks a bunch.
 
Could something have come loose? What did the on-card temp sensor read? Your case thermom? What kind of cooling do you have in the case?
 
I have two 60mm's, one 120mm, processor fan, and two fans on the video card itself. Usually the read on the temp through a software program I have said it was 50-55 idle and 75+ on a high demanding game. EDIT: My case read around 85-95F on high demanding games.
 
could you have your monitor's power saving settings on? right click desktop > properties > screen saver > power > change mode to always on > apply > ok
 
Try clearing your cmos by removing the battery for 15 seconds or changing the jumper over for 15 seconds. That will sometimes help if something happened to your cmos. Ive seen cards never work again after turning it off and everything seemed jsut fine. Do you have a test video card? That would probably be the easiest way to find out.
 
Yes, I have a Geforce FX 5500 that I'm running on now. I've also cleared my cmos, nothing has worked yet.
 
Put your "Broken" card into another computer to make sure it's dead. If the other computer has the same problem, then your card died and you should RMA it.
 
Follow above post and also check to see if monitor didn't get surged. Unplug it from vid card and see if it says anything on the screen. Or try and get to the monitor's adjustments menu with the little buttons on it. If that doesn't work, then you monitor either died or got zapped by a surge.

My friend had the same problem and kept on testing the parts inside his comp, and then I came over and pointed out the blackened outlet where his monitor was plugged into.

btw, everyone should go buy a UPS now just because I said so :p
 
Well I know the monitor being dead can be ruled out, I am running everything on the same setup I just switch the video cards out when I wan't to test things out.
 
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