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Old August 29th, 2008, 02:38 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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GeForce 6800 GT PCI-e fails to start up

I was just sent a 6800GT PCIe...tried it on straight away.
When BIOS starts up ... i seem to get these mad lines and colored boxes (artifacts) which indicates that there is something definetly wrong.(straigh!as soon as I power up the PC)
I thought that it might be the screen but for sure it isnt because I tried to load up windows and the computer crashes in the middle of the load up proccess.
I have searched for incompatibility issues but i found none
I have played arround with BIOS settings...no results though.
The funny thing is that all of a sadden it worked once, got into windows, and then the whole system crashed 10 minutes later. Rebooted and...back to the old deformed screen.

My set up is :

AMD 3500+ 64bit
ASrock 939dual SATA2
NVidia GeForce 6800 GT PCIe

TAKE a look at the picture attachment to see exactly what my problem is.



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Old August 29th, 2008, 02:55 PM     #2 (permalink)
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I believe your graphics card is shot.... looks like that 6800GT could have overheated or been fried by static shock or something.
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Who sent the card to you and did you uninstall the old drivers before you changed the card?
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