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no2censorship

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I tested my ram with mem test, and no errors. windows xp has been running very smoothly.

my mb is a foxconn a79a-s; my vid card is an evga 8800gt sc (flashed successfully to stock bios from evga website immediately upon entering windows with it for the 1st time)

Those are the only 2 possible culprits.

How likely is it to be my mb? do a79a-s's have a high failure rate? Having graphics corruption and unplayable frame rates with tru and latest whql drivers from nvidia's website.

How likely is it that my 8800 gt is failing? How common is it for 8800gt's to fail?

Some help would be great=] I'm leaning towards the 8800gt since nothing wrong other than graphics corruption and unplayable framerate (constant) during games. But what do you think?
 
Download a GPU stress test tool like ATI Tool. Run the the artifact scanner in ATI Tool and see if any errors popup.

None of the two parts you listed has high failure rates. It's relatively uncommon, for the 8800GT at least, to fail.

Out of curiosity, please answer these questions:
- What resolution are you playing your games at?
- What games are you playing?
- Has this always been a problem since you first built the PC or did it just crop up recently?
 
Danny Bui said:
Download a GPU stress test tool like ATI Tool. Run the the artifact scanner in ATI Tool and see if any errors popup.

None of the two parts you listed has high failure rates. It's relatively uncommon, for the 8800GT at least, to fail.

Out of curiosity, please answer these questions:
- What resolution are you playing your games at?
- What games are you playing?
- Has this always been a problem since you first built the PC or did it just crop up recently?
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1680x1050, tru demo, and a problem exactly like this occured with my last 8800gt, so this will be the 2nd one, if that's the problem. This has been a problem for a little while but not really since I first built my current build. Temps are always fine. I'm just going to order my 9800gtx+ now, but I'm going to be so angry if that's not the problem, because hardware failing like this is just ridiculous.

One more question:
Should I bother formatting or is keeping the same drivers when changing video cards ok?

Notice I said "formatting" b/c once an nvidia driver is installed, there is no getting off. Driver sweeper has never worked for me.
 
no2censorship said:
I used it as it said to.
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Wait, aren't you using Windows 7 beta? Maybe thats why it didn't work.

And yes, uninstall the drivers and reinstall the latest ones when you get the 8800GT back from RMA or the new 9800GTX+.
 
Danny Bui said:
Wait, aren't you using Windows 7 beta? Maybe thats why it didn't work.

And yes, uninstall the drivers and reinstall the latest ones when you get the 8800GT back from RMA or the new 9800GTX+.
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Thanks=] I went back to xp when i discovered that opengl drivers were screwed with windows 7 just like with vista 64.
 
My 9800 GTX+ will be here monday; It could've been here yesterday if I had just paid $2.99for rush processing. This is like the 1st time I've ever not ordered rush processing, and it was stupid to not order it, the $2.99 saved wasn't worthit... at all.

I'll let everyone know how things are going then. I'm hoping to have sold my pc power turbo cool 860w by the end of next week, and replace it with an antec sig 650.
 
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