euph_jay Posted June 6, 2005 Posted June 6, 2005 Ok, here is the problem. I just built a new rig with: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ DFI Lanparty UT Ultra-D nForce 4 1GB (512x2) TwinMOS SP PC 3200 Ram MSI 6600GT 128MB DDR 160GB Western Digital SE (raid 0) Thermalright XP-120 HSF and other optical drives and stuff. So I load Windows and get all my drivers installed just fine. For fun, I want to fire up Rome: Total War and see how it looks. So I get that installed and start playing the prologue. About 15 minutes into the game, I get a BSOD saying something like nvid_driv and stuff. So I reboot and the the troubles began. Here are some pictures of typical things my computer does now. Safe Mode Sceen DFI Splash Screen Windows Splash Screen BIOS Screen Some times it is really bad like in the pictures and it will get to the window's splash and then not ever get any further. The screen just goes black and nothing happens. When the "artifacting" is less, then it usually boots into windows but everything looks like crap. As you can see, something isn't right. My first inclination was that it was a video driver issue. So I grabbed the latest drivers and the same things kept happening. Rolled back to original, same. So now I'm down to the video card and motherboard I think. I am going to RMA my video card tomorrow, so if someone can give me some advice as to what exactly is going on, that would be greatly appreciated. Is there a chance this could be a motherboard problem? Thanks! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted June 6, 2005 Posted June 6, 2005 #1 specs in sig (post #2 of critical info sticky) #2 replace your vid card as we've seen this with bad vid cards Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loc.o Posted June 7, 2005 Posted June 7, 2005 Same screens i got when me X800's mem died..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonedog Posted June 7, 2005 Posted June 7, 2005 Ditto... That's how it looked when my AGP 6600 256mb died also. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tennvols_69 Posted June 7, 2005 Posted June 7, 2005 i had that same problem upon boot with my card however i just cleared cmos and it went away. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oliveryochest Posted June 7, 2005 Posted June 7, 2005 bad vid card Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freezer26 Posted June 7, 2005 Posted June 7, 2005 Bad Luck period. Video card has my vote though. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
babyelf Posted June 7, 2005 Posted June 7, 2005 fiddled with video card bios? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Posted June 7, 2005 Posted June 7, 2005 yeah, i looks like corruption of the video from a faulty videocard. I have heard there have been problems with MSI brand 6600GT heatsinks becoming dislodged from the 6600GT die and as a result the cards overheat. Could this issue be playing in? heat damage? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjj Posted June 7, 2005 Posted June 7, 2005 probably u've BIOS flashed your VGA card .. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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