Video card going?

[Propaganda]

Sometimes when I am playing a game my system will lock and the monitor will go dead, like on standby no connection, the box does not reboot but hangs, sometimes I can hear looping sound, so the box is technically still on but no video connection. Vid card or possibly something else?

 

[dead mike]

possibly your mother board is fucked. whats the rest of your computer specs buddy

 

[OG buckshot jr]

From my experience (as there's no sure-fire way to pin this down, YET) would be mobo as well :/

Give specs (including OS), my bro endured something very similar, and I found that the latest NVidia drivers matched on Win7 x64 fucked it completely. I booted safe mode (after attempting numerous times to do so), finally got in, removed all NVidia drivers, and it fixed it.

Possibilities:
- PSU
- GPU -> Although I'm not keen on thinking this yet because you haven't stated any lines across your screen. Sound stutter indicates either of two things: A driver issue, or a motherboard problem.

Any overclock on the system? Post all specs/settings you can, I'll do my best... God knows I've been through lots of problems on my PC and replaced lots of parts lol

 

[Propaganda]

Athlon 6400+
2 gig OGZ
8800 GTX 768 MB GPU
1000 WATT PSU
DUAL SATA HD'S
WIN XP

I have been considering a new build but with Xmas and sending my family to Brazil for a month I don't have the $$$ right now.

Oh yeah wifes gone for a month party at Props house all welcome.

 

[TD|night blade]

Does it happen in CSS only? or with any game? Could be a sound card issue (you didn't mention which sc), like the infamous SB loop crash, switching slots will fix this.

If it is the GTX, check the fan to see if it's still running, could be overheating.

 

[Leroy]

Oh yeah wifes gone for a month party at Props house all welcome.

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Sweet! I'll be down with the rum!

 

[47]

looping sound ? sounds liek a busted hdd

 

[Jump]

hey i can get your comp working again but i cant do the work from this end I can only tell you what to do. Normaly vgas dont die like that you will normaly get a bunch of currupt images first telling you the ram chips on the cards are starting to go. What you discribe sounds more like bad ram. Download either Prime95 or a program call memtest (not memtest 86 just memtest). Test your memory with memtest for atleast 12hrs. take your free ram and divid by the number of cores in your processor then convert from kb to mb and enter that number into memtest. run 1 instance of memtest for each core. Or run prime95 and do a blend test for 24hrs. if you fail the blend test run a small ftt test for 12-24hrs and if you pass that its almost forsure your ram. If you pass blend test for 24hrs and memtest for 12-24hrs then you dont have hardware issues (unless its with your gpu but we'll wait on that and If you need it Ill give you a program that does the same sorta stress tests to your gpu ram.)

I dont know what "looping sounds" could be unless you mean the mobo sounds like its in a startup loop.

Found the sites for you

http://hcidesign.com/memtest/

http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/

 

[Spinny]

Prop the same thing happens to me... usually when playing demanding games for longer than like an hour and a half...

I was playing L4D2 like 2 nights ago, and I got the same thing, game froze totally, then the monitor went dead, no signal, only thing to fix it is a reset.... it has been doing it for the last couple months, first playing Left 4 Dead, then Borderlands, then COD:MW2 single player, now L4D2.... piece of shitttttttt.....

I have an 8800 Ultra (similar to Prop's), maybe thats the prob....

 

[OG buckshot jr]

I had this issue before, with L4D part I. It wasn't GPU. Originally I thought overheating GPU, but first time it was GPU driver compatability with L4D. Prop's saying it's all games, so maybe it's not drivers (unless he changed them very recently). The next thing that went on me (looping sound and all) was the motherboard. It was either a BIOS corruption (randomly, without me even touching it) or a short on the board somewhere - possibly a bad capacitor. Asus didn't bother telling me, but they fixed it. Took about 6 weeks before it was back in my case.

 

[Propaganda]

It's not only games but also doing 3d work like mapping or modeling, anything graphics intensive.

 

[Spinny]

you on 32 bit or 64 bit windows prop?

 

[TD|night blade]

Hrm, either driver issue, bad memory or bad PSU. Do the memtest thing to see if your memory is fine, change drivers if this started happening when you did a driver update. Last but not least the PSU which is the trickiest, if you have a spare try it out.