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Video Problems - Could use some help

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I've got a video issue that I need help with. For reference, I have an nVidia 8800 GTX connected to an NEC LCD2690WUXi on a Win 7 x64 machine.

At some point earlier this year, I started to get what look like flocks of birds in different parts of my screen. When they first appeared, on a dark background, they were green - on a light background, they were magenta. They occasionally flickered. They went away eventually, and periodically came back.

Now they're back in different locations, and they are either blue or yellow depending on the background color.


At first I thought it was the monitor going bad, but switching inputs with another system caused the problem to go away, so it was not the monitor. I thought it might be the video card or cable - but tonight, on a whim, I ran a test I thought for certain would fail. I figured I would take a screen shot and see if the anomolies showed up in the screen shot.

And they did! They're in the screen shot. What does this mean? What is the source of the problem?


Take a look for yourself:

http://i.imgur.com/7SgbT.jpg
 
It's the first sign's of artifacting, it happends from the solder cracking, from the heat and the cold from turning the computer on and off, and the solder will crack over time, due to age,

do you have a warranty on the card? if so, rma.

if not. i can give you step by step on how to bake in the card in the oven.
 
Gulkor said:
It's the first sign's of artifacting, it happends from the solder cracking, from the heat and the cold from turning the computer on and off, and the solder will crack over time, due to age,

do you have a warranty on the card? if so, rma.

if not. i can give you step by step on how to bake in the card in the oven.
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Is it certain that this issue is the video card itself? If I call the manufacturer, they can't claim that it could be anything else?
 
its definitely the card and the 8800GTX's are notorious for artifacting before they outright fail. most have kicked the bucket around the 3 year mark which is why you don't see them up for resale much anymore.

if its an EVGA or XFX RMA it and make sure you either get a GTS 250 or GTX 260 in return. i doubt they will have any 8800GTX's laying around and even if they do i wouldn't take one of them.

the key to this all though when RMA'ing is make sure you know exactly how to duplicate the problem so they know how to test it. otherwise it will just go through a generic testing and if the problem doesn't happen they will ship the card back. also just to cover all the basis you may want to throw this card in another system and see if the problem happens again. gives you better odd's that the RMA process will work.
 
sirmonkey1985 said:
its definitely the card and the 8800GTX's are notorious for artifacting before they outright fail. most have kicked the bucket around the 3 year mark which is why you don't see them up for resale much anymore.

if its an EVGA or XFX RMA it and make sure you either get a GTS 250 or GTX 260 in return. i doubt they will have any 8800GTX's laying around and even if they do i wouldn't take one of them.
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Thanks for the confirmation. It's a PNY, actually. I *think* it had a lifetime warranty.

I take it the GTS 250 and GTX 260 are the closest current matches?
 
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