Dear all
Hi, this is the first time I havn't been able to find a solution on the boards and have been forced to post. I hope you can help before I am forced to drop kick my PC through the window.
I bought the PC about 6 months ago. None of the internal components have changed (I have a GeForce 7300GS, 2.2 Mhz processor, 1GB Ram and running Windows XP as an OS).
I've been happily gaming away for 6 months with no problems, but all of a sudden some of my games have started crashing, and I'm fairly sure it's a 3D problem.
What happens is that, when I start a game up I get all of the company logos and the pre-game movie, but once they are finished the games hang and the PC will crash.
I checked in the NVidia card's 3D management screen (you know the one where you can choose between Performance and quality). No matter which option I take , the blue sky behind the spinning NVidia logo contains flashing and shifting blocks that look like a line of standing dominoes. I also see these moving blocks if i run any movies files in media or real players.
One final symptom: occasionally flat, dashed lines appear across the screen in Firefox, they often disappear when I scroll away from them. I'm sure this is linked.
I've tried booting in safe mode and uninstalling the NVidia drivers and then re-installing then, but the problem's still there. I've also been monitoring the temp of the card and it's fine.
Please help if you can I'm getting really frustrated.
Cheers
Furious
Hi, this is the first time I havn't been able to find a solution on the boards and have been forced to post. I hope you can help before I am forced to drop kick my PC through the window.
I bought the PC about 6 months ago. None of the internal components have changed (I have a GeForce 7300GS, 2.2 Mhz processor, 1GB Ram and running Windows XP as an OS).
I've been happily gaming away for 6 months with no problems, but all of a sudden some of my games have started crashing, and I'm fairly sure it's a 3D problem.
What happens is that, when I start a game up I get all of the company logos and the pre-game movie, but once they are finished the games hang and the PC will crash.
I checked in the NVidia card's 3D management screen (you know the one where you can choose between Performance and quality). No matter which option I take , the blue sky behind the spinning NVidia logo contains flashing and shifting blocks that look like a line of standing dominoes. I also see these moving blocks if i run any movies files in media or real players.
One final symptom: occasionally flat, dashed lines appear across the screen in Firefox, they often disappear when I scroll away from them. I'm sure this is linked.
I've tried booting in safe mode and uninstalling the NVidia drivers and then re-installing then, but the problem's still there. I've also been monitoring the temp of the card and it's fine.
Please help if you can I'm getting really frustrated.
Cheers
Furious