Dead 7900GT need replacement advice

[Alien]

Originally Posted by Felinix_Devotion

I never OC'd the card.

I wasn't implying you had, even at stock speeds a lot of cards would fry if the fan wasn't working properly.

[AndrewJ]

Well the fan seems to be spinning up just fine, I am going with defunct GFX now for a few reasons

1) I was getting artifacts on BF2142 even though temps are in the clean
2) I also was getting crashes on other games INC the ultra reliable HL2
3) The beep error
4) The factor this problem only occured after I removed the card to clean it, although I had been having errors on nv4.dsp for a long while now at least a few week, and had put this down to BF2142 having bug issues and I had not been gaming as much in recent days.

Originally Posted by Felinix_Devotion

Yes I bought it from Scan was my first purchase from them, I'm going to see about getting a lift from a friend on here to their Bolton store in the morning, I have no reciept or box for it but heh their is hope as I am skinto till a week this Wednesday.

If anyone has a PCI-E card going VERY BLOODY CHEAP and I mean postage cost lol I am interested.

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I never OC'd the card.

go direct to the card manufacturer they will know the age of the card and honour any warranty

[AndrewJ]

Well I'm giving Scan a go first thing may aswell give them first dip's and see how I go, plus I can grab a cheapo card while there even if MSI honor the warranty I still could use having my pc up and running in the meantime.

[AndrewJ]

Well been Scan and the 7900gt come up clean no faults got myself a new PSU unit and when fitting it noticed something.

Before I had not noticed this due to the light, but today while on phone to a friend that something glinted at me from the PCI-E socket.....a single human hair.. was laid in the socket likely fubaring the connection.

So removed it gently and now all is fine.

May the mickey taking commence, and on a plus note my 12v and 5v rails are stable and a new PSU was needed.

[Graham M]

Originally Posted by Felinix_Devotion

Yes I bought it from Scan was my first purchase from them, I'm going to see about getting a lift from a friend on here to their Bolton store in the morning, I have no reciept or box for it but heh their is hope as I am skinto till a week this Wednesday.

If anyone has a PCI-E card going VERY BLOODY CHEAP and I mean postage cost lol I am interested.

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I never OC'd the card.

Log in to the Scan website, you should be able to get old Invoices without a problem

kinda cracked it in post 9

[AndrewJ]

All is good and I am back to my gaming ways.

But I still get the artifacts you see in the two shots especially on Battlefield 2142, I have my Windows updated and running a fully legit copy of BF2142, I have tried various gfx settings to no luck i get them randomly on random objects.

It is not really obtrusive but just annoying and a cause for worry as I do get it on Star Trek Bridge Commander yet I do not get it on Half Life 2 or F.E.A.R MP mode.

That looks like driver issues to me? Have you used older drivers newest drivers omega drivers if your not on vista?

[AndrewJ]

I am using some tweaked drivers from the Omega website they're the latest ones they have.

[Ray.uk]

Have you tried running with v/sync on,came across this here
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...hlight=Tearing

[AndrewJ]

I shall try that I was getting the weird glitches on Half Life 2 though and I have that setup....

When I was at Scan they claimed to have run benchmarks and tested it and it was fine, yet with the nvidia control panel temps always in the green max about 59c after gaming ( pc in living room ) and cpu and mobo temps never going to high I am only thinking my card is tired or perhaps my case has poor ventliaton?