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Title: Life sucks (I can't take it anymore!!) Post by: Jaq on 2003-09-15, 21:36 But I guess I have to...
I've been working really hard to get myself a new graphic card and finally I bought one. My brand new, sparkling Albatron GF4 Ti4800SE arrived. Everything was fine until today. I was playing Unreal 2 and after about 10 minutes graphics got reallyt screwed up. So I turned the game off. After doing that the monitor was acting like it would be changing resolutions and it didn't want to stop. So I rebooted my system. And right then all hell broke loose.... XP was unable to detect my graphic card, so I installed the latest detonators and... and since that I have artifacts all over the screen and I still can't install the driver. I tried updating BIOS but it didd't help at all. And the best thing is that I bought that card on ebay. The guy, who sells them has a perfect record and the card has no warranty. Those kind of things keep happening to me for the last month. It really, really pisses me off even though I'm a rather easy going man. Does anybody have some spare good luck to give away? Title: Re: Life sucks Post by: Tekhead on 2003-09-16, 00:52 format c:
good luck =x Title: Re: Life sucks Post by: Jaq on 2003-09-16, 07:40 I wish it could be that easy. The card is down, not the software.
I get artifacts even when I'm in BIOS. Title: Re: Life sucks Post by: ConfusedUs on 2003-09-16, 08:06 return the card if it's fried.
Title: Re: Life sucks Post by: Jaq on 2003-09-16, 15:06 I spoke to the guy and fe said he'll replace it. I am a bit surprised that he is willing to do that, after all a week has passed since I got it...
Anyway, I tried ti install my old Intel 740 card and... the werid thing is that I had very similar problems. So... I cleaned my motherboard reaaaly good to get rid of any dust, I cleaned the card's pins as well, reseted BIOS and I scanned my system for viruses. I had one worm that was active, so I decided to reinstall the whole system to be sure everything is gone. And... I have no idea why but everything is fine now. There is no ligic in that for me. The card had problems even before it started loading any operating system, moreover I had the same problems at my friend's PC. Once again logic has failed me when it comes to PCs. Title: Re: Life sucks Post by: Angst on 2003-09-16, 15:09 bring it to me, I tend to look at computers and fix them :P
Title: Re: Life sucks Post by: Lilazzkicker on 2003-09-16, 17:52 heh, my screen now is expeirencing minute flashes of a fucia color, very breif unnoticable unless i watch for it...weird
Title: Re: Life sucks Post by: ReBoOt on 2003-09-16, 20:27 I've had that kind of error with a gfx before, it was just a glitch in the AGP slot, removing and insert the card helped.
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