Aces High Bulletin Board

General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: cav58d on February 26, 2007, 07:30:04 PM

Title: Dead?
Post by: cav58d on February 26, 2007, 07:30:04 PM: As of the past 2 weeks my game has been totally screwed...I play for 5-10 minutes and all of a sudden the spikes come....I'm using the right drivers.

Judging from these photo's does anyone have any idea whats going on? Is my vid card dead?

(http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/4089/ahss2jc8.png)
(http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/4041/ahss6ae5.png)
Title: Dead?
Post by: Yoshimbo on February 26, 2007, 07:31:21 PM: WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111!!!!1!!1!:O :O :O

:confused: :huh

idk wut to tell ya man....sry for this useless post but......damn!
Title: Dead?
Post by: VooWho on February 26, 2007, 07:32:22 PM: I think you just found the Time Machine, or a Hyprodrive warp zone to get to other planets in one week.
Title: Dead?
Post by: Dago on February 26, 2007, 07:34:06 PM: Quote
Originally posted by VooWho
I think you just found the Time Machine, or a Hyprodrive warp zone to get to other planets in one week.

Yeah! I call "cheater", no fair using hyperdrive!!! :D
Title: Dead?
Post by: Vulcan on February 26, 2007, 07:39:04 PM: Its a Spitfire guys, so its obviously a Flux Capacitor problem.
Title: Dead?
Post by: Roscoroo on February 26, 2007, 07:42:27 PM: video overheat ?? it sorta looks different then that ...but then again some cards may act differently .

have you tryed a different game ?
Title: Dead?
Post by: Xargos on February 26, 2007, 07:42:36 PM: I got one word for you...C4.

If you find you need new parts for you puter give DanoDano a call at Dano's Store. It's one of the links in my sig.
Title: Dead?
Post by: CAV on February 26, 2007, 07:44:25 PM: Quote
Is my vid card dead

Yes... My card did the same thing a few weeks ago.... It was over heating, the fan wasn't running up to speed. Tried a new fan... but it was to late. Ran to hot to long...

Got a new card.... all is good again.

CAVALRY
Title: Dead?
Post by: cav58d on February 26, 2007, 07:48:07 PM: I just opened up my PC and pulled out the card...the freaken fan was filled with more dust than you could ever believe would accumulate back there...Anyways, cleaned the dust out with compressed air, put the card back in...Running a little better, but its still spiking. Guess its time for a new card.

I only have a PCI slot. Comp is 766mb of RAM. Right now im using a Nvidia Geforce5200 fx PCI 128mb card. What would you recommend buying?
Title: Dead?
Post by: Maverick on February 26, 2007, 07:57:44 PM: It looks like you are just short of plaid on the ludicrous speed meter. :confused:
Title: Dead?
Post by: Xargos on February 26, 2007, 07:59:43 PM: Ludicrous Speed...:rofl
Title: Dead?
Post by: AWMac on February 27, 2007, 01:30:28 AM: Me thinks PEDRO has been in yer box....

:(

Mac
Title: Dead?
Post by: tedrbr on February 27, 2007, 01:44:42 AM: Give Me My Over-Thruster!!!!!

(Why is there a watermelon there?)
Title: Dead?
Post by: Ball on February 27, 2007, 02:36:21 AM: hacker!
Title: Dead?
Post by: Mustaine on February 27, 2007, 03:46:14 AM: worst
photosho
evar

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/180_1172569590_plaid.jpg)
Title: Dead?
Post by: fd ski on February 27, 2007, 04:11:10 AM: it overheated.
Try cleaning and replacing the fan. It may be too late though.
Title: Dead?
Post by: SuperDud on February 27, 2007, 04:48:35 AM: Well there's your problem.... the flux capacitors broken!
Title: Dead?
Post by: DadRabit on February 27, 2007, 08:06:19 AM: "flux capacitors..............." :rofl

might also be the 1.21 jigawatts overload :D
Title: Dead?
Post by: Max on February 27, 2007, 08:09:16 AM: Your Dilithium crystals need replenishment. :D
Title: Dead?
Post by: DadRabit on February 27, 2007, 08:12:54 AM: (Contact the movie) "Ellie to control.......Ellie to control........"
Title: Dead?
Post by: Red Tail 444 on February 27, 2007, 10:00:59 AM: That card is fried. Once it spikes, even once, for an instant, its all over.

If you continue to use it, your MB will fry, as well.
Title: Dead?
Post by: Airscrew on February 27, 2007, 10:25:50 AM: I have 4 cats, I clean out the pc's about once every couple of months. also to help keep the video card cool, year or so ago i bought an extra card fan, has two fans. inserts in the PCI slot underneath the agp slot and blows on the video card, not sure if it helps or not but it cant be hurting it
Title: Dead?
Post by: x0847Marine on February 27, 2007, 01:51:10 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Vulcan
Its a Spitfire guys, so its obviously a Flux Capacitor problem.

Looks like Scotty tried to cook a wiener in the warp drive again...
Title: Dead?
Post by: LePaul on February 27, 2007, 04:26:26 PM: My ATI died in a similar fashion, except it wasnt an overheat issue. The video memory controller failed, causing memory corruption. Ran a few free diagnostic programs I found on the web, all found the same thing.
Title: Dead?
Post by: dmf on February 27, 2007, 05:43:00 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Vulcan
Its a Spitfire guys, so its obviously a Flux Capacitor problem.

Is not, even I know its the fugalbinder, not the flux capacitor
Or worse, maybe the spitfires will all lose warp containment and go poof :)
Title: Dead?
Post by: cav58d on February 27, 2007, 07:12:22 PM: So am I running any risk to the MB by keeping the card in use for net and word ops only? I'm not playing AH again until I get a new card, but if the fan is overheated, can this hurt my computer as a whole?
Title: Dead?
Post by: Scherf on February 28, 2007, 05:30:21 AM: Spitfire = Tardis, clearly a BBC plot!
Title: Dead?
Post by: Maverick on February 28, 2007, 12:03:32 PM: Cav,

I think one of the other folks posted that yes you are risking your mobo with a bad vid card. If you are waiting for a really good card to arrive you could just go to the store and pick up a cheap base line card to do the word and number crunching stuff. It would be worth a few bucks to maintain your system.
Title: Dead?
Post by: Red Tail 444 on February 28, 2007, 12:10:31 PM: Quote
Originally posted by cav58d
So am I running any risk to the MB by keeping the card in use for net and word ops only? I'm not playing AH again until I get a new card, but if the fan is overheated, can this hurt my computer as a whole?

Yes. If your monitor is on, you are using the damaged card. Maybe I am wrong, but I had to replace my 64-bit gaming system (thankfully was under warranty)