Ramsey
 
(frozen)
| #1 posted July 6, 2009 at 10:55am (EST)
edited July 6, 2009 at 11:01am (EST) |
I have had a PC problem crop up on me and wondered if anyone could be of any help. Here are the details.
I was playing WoW (World of Warcraft) two nights ago and the screen started to artifact badly and the game froze at the same time. I could move my mouse cursor, but even hitting the Start/Windows key did nothing. I ended up hitting the hard reboot button and went back to playing. A short time later, the same thing happened and I had to do a hard reboot again. The artifacting was still present during the boot up screens and before it finished rebooting, I got a blue screen memory dump. Once the short memory dump finished it rebooted itself and I was back in business. At this point, I figured the video card might be overheating and just shut things down for the night.
In the morning, I opened the PC and gave her a good cleaning. The front filters were pretty bad, but overall it wasn't that dusty. I plugged things back up and fired it up, watching to make sure every fan was working, especially the video card's. All were running and I adjusted the case fans to from medium to high setting. Unfortunately, I had to go to work at that point.
Last night, I tried playing WoW again and every 10-15 minutes, I would get problems. Sometimes, it would just freeze with no artifacting. In these cases, I could hit Cntl/Alt/Del and start Task Manager and then go right back in the game and it would "fix" the problem. Other times, I would have to reboot and half those times, I would get the blue screen memory dump along the way. I tried running with the case open and checked the fans quite a few times. I felt the video card itself and it was pretty hot - I couldn't leave my fingers on it for more than 2-3 seconds.
So.....has my video card gone bad? Pertinent specs are listed below. It is a PC I assembled in April 2008.
MSI GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB video
Windows Vista - 64-bit Home Premium
Asus P5N-E mobo
Intel Core 2 Q6600
Corair XMS2 DHX 4 GB RAM
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