Hi
I'm running Windows 8 64-bit, and have an Nvidia 8800 GTX - which started causing crashes recently.
I've tried rolling updating to the latest drivers, and also rolling them back to the original ones to see if it made any difference. I've monitored temperatures and crashes occur at any temperature - even at 60C. At first I thought it was an overheating issue, so cleaned the computer of dust and monitored temperatures. The crashes occur when any kind of hardware acceleration is involved, be in in-browser or in a game. The screen begins to show odd artefacts such as random blocks of blank screen here and there or black lines and then just locks up, and eventually the PC restarts and it seems fine on restart. I do sometimes get an "error code 3".
Is the Graphics card dying - that's the only conclusion I can get to at the moment. Any help appreciated.
I'm running Windows 8 64-bit, and have an Nvidia 8800 GTX - which started causing crashes recently.
I've tried rolling updating to the latest drivers, and also rolling them back to the original ones to see if it made any difference. I've monitored temperatures and crashes occur at any temperature - even at 60C. At first I thought it was an overheating issue, so cleaned the computer of dust and monitored temperatures. The crashes occur when any kind of hardware acceleration is involved, be in in-browser or in a game. The screen begins to show odd artefacts such as random blocks of blank screen here and there or black lines and then just locks up, and eventually the PC restarts and it seems fine on restart. I do sometimes get an "error code 3".
Is the Graphics card dying - that's the only conclusion I can get to at the moment. Any help appreciated.