As of yesterday, my Pixelview Geforce 5200 FX card has completely failed. Up until then (around 4 months), the card has run perfectly and flawlessly.
Last night, my video card just shut off, thinking it was a moniter problem, I tried another moniter. It was indeed the video card. I'm typing this message now using my integrated graphics port.
To attempt to fix this, I opened up the side panel and let the system cool for around an hour. This was a solution, and the card worked again. Earlier today, I was running a game (and not a graphically intensive one), when the card suddenly locked up again. I repeated what I did last night, with the addition of putting a large fan blowing into the case. I let it cool down for an hour, yet it still wasnt functioning. I then took the card out, blew the dust from the card and the AGP slot, and re-seated it. It still didn't function. I then installed new drivers for my chipset. Again, nothing.
I've tweaked with setting in my BIOS and whatnot, yet nothing is fixing this. Is this just a dead card, or is something else wrong?
Last night, my video card just shut off, thinking it was a moniter problem, I tried another moniter. It was indeed the video card. I'm typing this message now using my integrated graphics port.
To attempt to fix this, I opened up the side panel and let the system cool for around an hour. This was a solution, and the card worked again. Earlier today, I was running a game (and not a graphically intensive one), when the card suddenly locked up again. I repeated what I did last night, with the addition of putting a large fan blowing into the case. I let it cool down for an hour, yet it still wasnt functioning. I then took the card out, blew the dust from the card and the AGP slot, and re-seated it. It still didn't function. I then installed new drivers for my chipset. Again, nothing.
I've tweaked with setting in my BIOS and whatnot, yet nothing is fixing this. Is this just a dead card, or is something else wrong?