Post subject: how do you know when your video card is messed up?
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:47 pm
The Maleficent
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:17 pm Posts: 13551 Location: is a jerk in wyoming Gender: Female
this isn't a joke and there's no punch line.
My home PC is screwed up: turn it on, distorted screen, tries to start up, can't, go to start up recovery and repair screen- still distorted. Tries to fix itself, can't repeats process.
I unpluged the monitor from the card and plugged it back in and got it working again for awhile but now that doesn't work either. (my friend here said that's probably because the leads are corroding and moving the plug moves the card, so it gets re-seated in the slot - clearing some of the corrusion, but I have no idea if that's what happened or not.)
I'm pretty sure it's just the video card that needs to be replaced but I don't know for sure, and I hate the idea of throwing down a couple hundred dollars (or whatever) for a new card that doesn't actually fix the problem. i don't think they let you return that kind of stuff, right?
blah- anyone? and no, this doesn't belong in the tech formum because it takes days to get a reply there.
Post subject: Re: how do you know when your video card is messed up?
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:39 pm
Red Mosquito, my libido
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First, how old is the PC? If it's old you might be better off just replacing the whole thing.
Second, if it's just a display problem it's either the video card, the monitor, or the cable connecting the two. Have you tried swapping it out with a different monitor to see if that fixes it?
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Post subject: Re: how do you know when your video card is messed up?
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:51 pm
The Maleficent
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:17 pm Posts: 13551 Location: is a jerk in wyoming Gender: Female
cutuphalfdead wrote:
First, how old is the PC? If it's old you might be better off just replacing the whole thing.
Second, if it's just a display problem it's either the video card, the monitor, or the cable connecting the two. Have you tried swapping it out with a different monitor to see if that fixes it?
bought in late 2007 (I think end of the year) so it's around 3 and a half years old- it's a Dell which basically pisses me off because it's probably the 'best' Pc I've purchased over the years, and it lasted the shortest amount of time - Also, the video card is an NVIDIA GForce card- which I'm pretty sure is a good card- I know the brand at least is well regarded among gamers, so that's pretty shitty too. I haven't tried swapping out the monitor, or a different cord because the plug is different for this PC than any of the others we have. And looking at various desktop PCs online, they are , of course, all much better, stronger, faster, brighter, than this one and cheaper too so whatever, I'm just getting a new one and hope the damn thing doesn't crap out on me so soon this time.
I think it's retarded that the average shelf life for a PC is no more than about 5 years - it's such a rackett.
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