The 3D applications scramble in a minute. I cannot run them please help :(

afuturejedi · April 20th, 2007, 08:47 AM

Hallo Regeneration, MacDaddy, and lot other expert users, please take a look into my problem if you have time,

Since five days after opening the cabinet for some wiring, I cannot play 3D games. They were playing well. I can play videos. But when I start some hi graphics application like 3D games(crashday demo, matrix, fable, also while performing the test in 3Dmark06, or Winamp visualization, 3D archetect, after 2 minutes of playing, the screen scrambles into bits and freezes. Low quality 3D applications stay for little longer, then hands.
look at the screen that happened after a few seconds, when I started the Atari Crashday demo-

Sounds keep on playing but after a while it also glitches and gets stuck. Then have to I minimise the game by pressing the alt tab button and end task the game. Or sometimes the pc restarts and recovers with some serious error.
Newly I found out that the Graphic card fan makes sharp sound when I start my pc, as if something is stuck in it and flapping. The sound stops when I touch that graphic card fan with finger and spins normally.
Why is this causing?
I tried reinstalling the Directx, I tried reseating the card from the PCI express slot. Reseating the RAM too. Didnt work. [img]images/smilies/frown.gif[/img].
Thank you very, sincerely Ketan.

DG975WH motherboard, Intel Core2Duo 6600 2.4GHz, 1gb DDR2 Ram, 7300LE 256mb Nvidia Geforce card(512mb after sharing the memory from RAM), Sony 1280X1024 monitor with its own driver installed (resolution and frequency is set to default recommended setting), Windows XP Professional.

**Regeneration** · April 20th, 2007, 08:56 AM

First of all, try to update your BIOS and check up the settings there. Then, take off the heatsink from your card, clean it, reapply thermal paste and put it back on. If its not helping, try your card on another system to find it if the card is broken it, if it is broken, RMA it.

IModAmd · April 20th, 2007, 01:55 PM

It's strange because he can go on windows xp with no probs and when he playing games he had trouble?Well... it's do this problem 1 time for me and i tryed to reinstall all my videodrivers... and it's worked perfectly after ! And try what Regeneration said

nCaine · April 20th, 2007, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by afuturejedi

Newly I found out that the Graphic card fan makes sharp sound when I start my pc, as if something is stuck in it and flapping. The sound stops when I touch that graphic card fan with finger and spins normally.
Why is this causing?

Hey welcome to the forum mate .
About that fan problem , i have identical behavior from my card , from time to time. And of course the caus of this is dust

, just take out the card , take you vacum cleaner , take out dirt bag from it (to have full sucks power ) , cover the end of the vacum clener with antistatick bag , and clean the card. This way you dont have to take out whole fan and radiator , whit involves cleaning GPU core from thrmal paste and puting right amount of new one.
I done it last day , it works perfect.

PS. just dont do it without antistatick bag , plastick parts of vac cleaner generate alot static energy .

IModIntel · April 20th, 2007, 02:32 PM

Actually to clean PC parts, you should use a canned air blower so you don't accidently damaged your part with the vacuum cleaner.

But before doing that i would try to mess around with my video drivers. Make sure you have the NGO Optimized drivers installed. They fix a lot of issues and give you better performance and image quality...

afuturejedi · April 21st, 2007, 07:06 AM

Hi nCaine,
My new pc and the card is very clean, it is just a month I have bought it. Any how I removed the dust that was present on the fan blades. The rest is very clean as new. I will try vacume cleaning or pressure can and the thermal paste. What I have found out is, the more high definition graphics rendering, the quicker it gets hung and scramble. The 3D pool game which is hardly 3mb setup file and winamp visualization like 'milkdrops', can be played for 10 to 15 minutes, then it hangs. The heavy games like Fable, Scarface, die in just less than 30seconds.
Regeneration, I have updated the bios. But will try putting it on another computer thanks. And then I wil ltell again.
see you, Ketan

Quote:

Originally Posted by nCaine

Hey welcome to the forum mate .
About that fan problem , i have identical behavior from my card , from time to time. And of course the caus of this is dust

, just take out the card , take you vacum cleaner , take out dirt bag from it (to have full sucks power ) , cover the end of the vacum clener with antistatick bag , and clean the card. This way you dont have to take out whole fan and radiator , whit involves cleaning GPU core from thrmal paste and puting right amount of new one.
I done it last day , it works perfect.

PS. just dont do it without antistatick bag , plastick parts of vac cleaner generate alot static energy .

nCaine · April 21st, 2007, 03:50 PM

From what you write mate , its looks like overheating , do two things.

First: befor starting to play any game , open Dispaly Properties/Advanced/Temperature Settings , lave it like that so when you swith from game to desktop you see what temps you running. Try to swith to desktop befor you comp hangs of course

Second: Try downclocking your card , if the card will run stable with lower clocks that default , then you gonna be shure its BAD cooling or the card it self. And not driver software problem.

But im not expert at this , what you guys think ?

PS. What card are you running mate ??

gen.Rage1991hrv · April 21st, 2007, 03:59 PM

hmmm
it looks like one of capacitors is dieing take your pc to pcshop where you buyd grafic card

afuturejedi · April 21st, 2007, 09:41 PM

Hallo nCaine,
The card is Geforce 7300LE 64bit. 256mb (512mb after sharing). Downclocking means, I should remove the sharing option? How to do it? I searched for it a lot, but didn't find.
I did the same you told. Normally the temperature of the Graphic card shows 60degrees. But when the game hanged and I quickly looked into the nvidia control pannel temperature that I kept open. It was 67 and 68 degrees.
Yes Gen.Rage, I think I will have to replace the card, after trying the things nCaine told.
see you.
Ketan.

gen.Rage1991hrv · April 21st, 2007, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by afuturejedi

Hallo nCaine,
The card is Geforce 7300LE 64bit. 256mb (512mb after sharing). Downclocking means, I should remove the sharing option? How to do it? I searched for it a lot, but didn't find.
I did the same you told. Normally the temperature of the Graphic card shows 60degrees. But when the game hanged and I quickly looked into the nvidia control pannel temperature that I kept open. It was 67 and 68 degrees.
Yes Gen.Rage, I think I will have to replace the card, after trying the things nCaine told.
see you.
Ketan.

when is card new and that things is hapening that is bad really bad trust me
add ~20$ and buy a 7600GS i have it and its really good try to find Gainward 7600GS(golden sample is with 256 DDR3 like GT version but regular GS have a ddr2) its cheap but its great and cool(cold)
my works around 30°C idle and 50°C under high stress(like when you play games with max details)