SuperKris
11-18-2009, 12:05 PM
I run a tripple screen setup with a 8800GTS for 2 DVI screens, and a 9500GT for my TV. The 8800 GTS is now around 2,5 years old.
for the last few months i have been losing my 2nd screen on the 8800GTS at startup. A reboot always fixed the problem.
But yesterday i installed L4D2, and after a few minutes of playing i started to have problems with the game crashing. I also had diagonal red stripes during that. After closing the game, my desktop was working fine.
I thought it might have been a driver issue, so i installed the last drivers (beta) and it worked for a few hours. But after those few hours the problems returned. this time the whole computer was crashing, but again i had the same stripes.
After a reboot the problem was gone again, but after a few minutes the problem was the same again. I was able to repeat this a few times, but after a few times i had red artifacts and wrong characters in the postscreen at startup.
My PSU is powerfull and only 3 months old.
My quiestions:
Is my XFX 8800GTS dying or already dead? or could there be another problem?
Does XFX offer any guarantee after 2,5 years?
If i would buy a new card, should i get a GTX 260, or a GTS 275?
for the last few months i have been losing my 2nd screen on the 8800GTS at startup. A reboot always fixed the problem.
But yesterday i installed L4D2, and after a few minutes of playing i started to have problems with the game crashing. I also had diagonal red stripes during that. After closing the game, my desktop was working fine.
I thought it might have been a driver issue, so i installed the last drivers (beta) and it worked for a few hours. But after those few hours the problems returned. this time the whole computer was crashing, but again i had the same stripes.
After a reboot the problem was gone again, but after a few minutes the problem was the same again. I was able to repeat this a few times, but after a few times i had red artifacts and wrong characters in the postscreen at startup.
My PSU is powerfull and only 3 months old.
My quiestions:
Is my XFX 8800GTS dying or already dead? or could there be another problem?
Does XFX offer any guarantee after 2,5 years?
If i would buy a new card, should i get a GTX 260, or a GTS 275?