Video card or windows problem?

[l0cke]

Specs:

Evga 6800gs PCIe
AMD athlon X2 3800
MSI mobo socket 939
(is there more you need to know, really?)


I move my computer around a lot. Twice every week almost.

This time though, when I moved my computer the card got unseated. I tried booting anyways. The fan was still spinning so I thought it was still in the socket. The card did not work of course, so I opened up my case and popped it back it.

That worked, but now I get 640x860 and 4 bit colors, no way to change it.

It still looks fine in BIOS.

I plugged in my back-up PCI card and that is what I am running now.

I uninstalled the drivers and now I have reinstalled them. Rebooted about 15 times. Still no luck

Did I fry my card, or is this a windows problem?

 

[HardwareGuru]

You may have fried your card. A similar situation happened to me but it was on a ATI rage 128 card. I was messing with it popping it in etc. I may have not seated it good etc but, I notice one day the video was slow. I check the setting in DX Diagnostics and I noticed the Dirext X features was disabled. Theres nothing I can do to enable it back. It was greyed out. I reseated the video card downloaded the driver, uninstalled and reloaded the video drivers and still the same. I placed that card in another pc. Same result.