Weird Graphic Card Problem

blueeagle1966 — Mon, 09 May 2011 16:21:27 GMT

Hi.

I have been having issues with my 8800GT OC graphics card, with black screen /no signal when playing pretty-much any game. SO my mate offered to bring up his 9800GT so I could test my system.

Anyway, I installed his card, and my problems seemingly went away.

I then removed his card, and gave it him back. He rang me that night to say that he put his card back in, and it wasn't working. His motherboard would default to the onboard GPU. If he disabled the onboard he got a video error.

So i told him to bring his PC (and his card) back up to me.

I made sure his card was seated correctly, but no joy. I then tried his card back in my PC and it worked no problems.

Put it back in his, no dice. I tried my ca4rd in his, and it worked fine.

So he tried his card in his wife's PC later on. In her PC it wouldn't work. In his step-daughter's PC it worked fine?

So I have worked out, that it doesn't work in any board that has got an onboard GPU. Because the only two PC that haven't got an onboard GPU his his step-daughter's and mine. And it works great. All of a sudden, his board and his wife's totally ignores it.

This is since he removed it from his PC so I could try it.

He's happy. He had an excuse to get an ATI 5750 DX11. And his daughter's PC has now got his weird 9800GT, which was a lot faster than her old ATI card. So she is happy too.

But i'm puzzled, as to what happened to his card. I was wondering if he had somehow damgaged his card's edge connector or something, as he isn't the most careful person on the planet. That's the only thing I can put it down to.

He handles simple plug in card upgrades to his PC himself. But anything else in his PC such as motherboard upgrades or CPU, then he pays me to do them. As his wife doesn't seem to trust him.

If anyone can shed light on this weird card issue, I would appreciate it, as it's a new one on me, after all the years I have had my head stuck inside a PC case.

Thanks for your time.

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THEODOROS321 — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:39:07 GMT

Hi there,

I have a 17 inch LCD monitor 1280*1024 32bit, Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 @ 3.262GHz 466FSB ORTHOS,PRIME,OCCT,SANDRA,AND OTHER FULLY STABLE (1.86GHz Default) with Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 Motherboard (Rev. X.X WITH F7 BIOS) with 2GB Kingston Hyper-X 800MHz Memory modules in Dual Channel Mode (128bit - 64bit*2).I'm using ATI GFX-Cards FOREVER and the reason is because i don't know what the Bench sites are saying or doing but every time that i was trust any of the benchmarks i was pissed off because is like they are saying lies to me at least.Finally i want to make something about the ATI HD3870 clear and not for the ATI HD3870 X2 is that in any game i'm playing the frames are about 60F.P.S.(Frames Per Second) and up, not at least in any time of the game drops below of that at ALL FULL GRAPHICS and all Details Cranked Up - AA16X,HDR and so on...... and something else those 55nm babes and not 65nm are so easy overclockable ~1000MHz+++ core (stock cooling- within VGA BIOS modifications).

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