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  • 20-05-2009 8:21am
    #1
    good old days
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭


    My PC will load to desk top in safe mode but crashes back to re-starting on normal start-up.
    A bit of background on the way this started to happen, Monday nigh the PC was working fine on Tuesday I started it up to play
    left 4 dead which I have been playing all of last week, the game froze and I had to restart, it happened again and again, so I tried other games and it was doing the
    same, the game just froze. When I tried it on empire it gave a windows message that my graphic card was not responding.
    I opened up the PC and to check my card it seemed fine i.e. not hot and the fan was working, so I then tried again and that's when the PC started crashing
    OS - Vista 32 Home
    Mem - 3gb
    Duel Processor Intel
    NVIDIA 8800 Ultra card
    Is my graphic card broken, is this the result not even able to open to windows?
    In safe mode I can't even get on line, I have wireless internet connection is this the reason?
    My card is still under warrantee so if I need to change it is should not be a problem, I hope
    Any help in this please or other information i can supply?


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  • #2
    snappieT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭snappieT


    Does your motherboard have a standard (onboard) graphics output, along with your nVidia card? Try taking the nVidia out of the PC, plugging your monitor into the onboard graphics and try again, that'll eliminate the graphics card as a source of the problem (which I doubt, tbh).

    Try re-installing your graphics drivers in safe mode also.

    Safe mode disables networking, that's why you can't get online.


  • #3
    good old days
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭good old days


    Thanks snappieT - the only graphic output is my card - do you think the problem is the graphic card?

    thanks for explaining the online bit in safe mode


  • #4
    snappieT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭snappieT


    I'd be inclined to think some driver in Windows (possibly relating to the graphics card) got screwed.
    That said, do you have any other graphics cards lying around (or one you could borrow) to test?


    If the hardware itself was boned, you'd have trouble booting into safe mode at all.

    As I said, try re-installing the graphics driver in safe mode. If that fails, it may be time for a reinstall of Windows I'm afraid.


  • #5
    good old days
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭good old days


    thanks snappieT, will try re-installing the driver in safe mode this evening


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