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Is this classic sign that the graphics card is broken ???

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Originally posted by shubagh18:

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Hello All

I have the following problem with my PC and would appreciate any help. It only occurs when I am playing high performance games such as Call of Duty 4. The game will load fine. Once into the game and playing within a few minutes it will crash stating no signal input on the monitor.

I have noticed just before this happens the graphics card fan begins to really speed up. You can hear game for few seconds before i hear beeping noise and have to reset the PC. I initially thought it could be a power issue and replaced it with a new one to rule that out. I have this morning downloaded ATI TOOL and manually changed the fan speeds to 100 % and I still have the same issue.

Is this classic sign that the graphics card is broken ???


It sounds like you need to remove all the ati drivers, and cat control centre, you should find ati cat-uninstaller in c:\ati\support\cat-uninstaller

run that, and it will remove most of it, then reboot and check in add remove programs for the ati driver, remove that.

use ccleaner to scan the registry to remove any leftovers, then reinstall the latest stable drivers for your card, which is 8.2 on a 3870. but do check which version is the most stable, search online plenty of groups discuss drivers.

Originally posted by sammorris:

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ck, the big cooling problems only affect the 3870s. The X1900 an X1950 series cards were noisy beggars but they didn't usually overheat like the 3870s do.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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core2kid: All told that cooler will probably work fine for you, butmy philosophy regarding replacement coolers for GPUs is that it's not something you're going to want to have to do again, so you may as well guarantee you're going to get it right first time. The HR-03GT can't be that much more money, and it's a proven performer, so why not?

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