The following really came out of nowhere.
No heads up, no warnings, no graphic glitches, tearing, nothing.
What happened?
I was playing BF2 and all of a sudden the screen just goes black.
The game doesn't crash, I can still hear game sounds in the headphones.
I try to kill BF2 through Ctrl+alt+delete and this is where the really odd thing started.
Whenever I move the mouse, the screen goes black.
I wait a few seconds and image returns.
Move the mouse? Screen turns black...
I reboot and make it back into Windows and try to google up some answers.
As soon as I launch some kind of picture or graphic heavy page, the screen goes black.
I lean back to think things through and now I experience the only graphic related bugs yet.
Parts of the page I was looking at was flickering and the bottom half started to twitch and "bend" before the screen
went black again.
I give it a go the next day and then I only see the post screen and nothing more.
(Monitor goes into the analog/digital/analog/digital flickering before going to sleep.
Restart = not even post screen shows up
Note, the first time I fire things up I see more than after a reboot. This gradual "degradation"... Maybe means something? I dunno.
What about fans and such, anything else seem odd?
All fans are spinning gently in their idle position, GPU warms up (not overheating, just running), everything seems like it should except for the
fact that I won't get any image.
If I disconnect the cable between monitor and GPU, "Check signal cable", plug back in and the monitor get "signal" but nothing
is processed and we're back to analog/digital/analog/digital flickering before going to sleep
Suspected culprit
Since the blackening of the screen occurs when rendering a new image (moving mouse for example) I think
the GPU (purchased in 2005) is having some issues. The fans are working (and I've pulled it out and used compressed air to
clear the fan and there wasn't much dust at all) so there "must" be something else that is wrong with it.
I don't have an extra card to swap with so I'd value your help here.
What say ye great technomancers of the board?
No heads up, no warnings, no graphic glitches, tearing, nothing.
What happened?
I was playing BF2 and all of a sudden the screen just goes black.
The game doesn't crash, I can still hear game sounds in the headphones.
I try to kill BF2 through Ctrl+alt+delete and this is where the really odd thing started.
Whenever I move the mouse, the screen goes black.
I wait a few seconds and image returns.
Move the mouse? Screen turns black...
I reboot and make it back into Windows and try to google up some answers.
As soon as I launch some kind of picture or graphic heavy page, the screen goes black.
I lean back to think things through and now I experience the only graphic related bugs yet.
Parts of the page I was looking at was flickering and the bottom half started to twitch and "bend" before the screen
went black again.
I give it a go the next day and then I only see the post screen and nothing more.
(Monitor goes into the analog/digital/analog/digital flickering before going to sleep.
Restart = not even post screen shows up
Note, the first time I fire things up I see more than after a reboot. This gradual "degradation"... Maybe means something? I dunno.
What about fans and such, anything else seem odd?
All fans are spinning gently in their idle position, GPU warms up (not overheating, just running), everything seems like it should except for the
fact that I won't get any image.
If I disconnect the cable between monitor and GPU, "Check signal cable", plug back in and the monitor get "signal" but nothing
is processed and we're back to analog/digital/analog/digital flickering before going to sleep
Suspected culprit
Since the blackening of the screen occurs when rendering a new image (moving mouse for example) I think
the GPU (purchased in 2005) is having some issues. The fans are working (and I've pulled it out and used compressed air to
clear the fan and there wasn't much dust at all) so there "must" be something else that is wrong with it.
I don't have an extra card to swap with so I'd value your help here.
What say ye great technomancers of the board?
CPU Intel E8400
GPU Club 3D GeForce 7800GTX 256MB PCI-E DVIx2+TV+VIDEOin
RAM Corsair TWIN2X 6400 DDR2, 4096MB CL5, Kit w/two matched CM2X2048-6400 Dimm's
MOBO Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3, P35, Socket-775, ATX, GbLAN, DDR2, ICH9, DES, PCI-Ex16
HD Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 160GB NCQ 7200rpm SATA 3Gb/s 8MB cache
PSU Antec Neopower 500W
DVD NEC ND-3550 DVD±R/RW
Case Antec P180
Monitor Samsung Syncmaster 930BF 19" TFT 4ms VGA+DVI
OS Windows XP
Last edited by Sambuccashake (2009-09-14 00:01:22)