Rocky Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 Looks like I might have the same problem as ARDelta! I went to play a game this morning and got a ton of artifcacts displayed. Powered off, took the 7800GS out, cleaned it, put it back in, same deal. Temperatures are normal. Even on the desktop, I have little black lines around the cursor I just tried CoD4 and the game was almost unrecognisable, huge bocks of flat colour and hundreds of articfacts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrowmanUK Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 You got a spare pc you can plug it into mate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pave Low Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 Maybe not related but this only started right after you installed the Shader 2 Effects “fix†tool ??? Try completely uninstalling it (& maybe rollback to an older restore point) Definitely be worth uninstalling and reinstalling graphics drivers fresh and also Reinstalling DX If you have another machine to try the card in to see if fault follows the card Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted April 4, 2008 Author Share Posted April 4, 2008 Well, it's totally dead now. Hows this for a disasterious sequence. It was okay last night, play games fine. This morning - serious artifacts. I took the card back out and gave it a good clean this time, removed the air duct and cleaned the entire card of all dust. Stuck it back in and viola - no signal at all. The fan is whirring, there's no post beep to warn about GPU issues, but there is no signal on the monitor at all. So, I look out my old GPU, don't even know what it is, and stick it in, but it's the old analogue type connection - and guess what, I gave my only analogue/digital connector block away 2 days ago! So, then I had to go get my old huge CRT monitor and use that's what I am using now. A pigging MX440 graphics card and an old monitor. Gonna check ebuyer and see if they'll deliver next day - time for that new PCI-e dual core PC.... ps that shader thing is only called to memory by a key combo Pave, there's no install / uninstall as such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrowmanUK Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 Why not plug in a 56k modem for that complete back to the dark ages look? lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARDelta Posted April 4, 2008 Share Posted April 4, 2008 Man, sorry to hear that Rocky, but I would have prefered that mine had such a conclusive failure instead of all this mucking around with drivers, driver cleaners, switching slots, changing power connections, boot, reboot, etc, etc. On the bright side, there's nothing like a great excuse to upgrade! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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