Did my video card go bad?

[jsh169]

I cleaned my computer because my cpu was overheating. I took everything out of the motherboard. When I put the video card back in once, my computer automatically found drivers and once I manually found the driver with the same result. The video card worked, until I put the drivers in and then the computer would have to restart. Well after I restarted the computer and it went past the windows, the screen would go black and white, squares and lines and it would load again with just different patterns. It repeated this process until it restarted and did it all over again. Only solution I came up with was to shut down the computer.

 

[swifty_morgan]

you didn't take the cpu out of it's slot did you?

and you hooked the monitor to the back of the card not the motherboard?

and does the motherboard have on board video?

list specs.

 

[jsh169]

I did take the cpu out. I cleaned the heatsink and fan of the video card as well, thats all the further I went there. Computer specs
Windows 7 32 bit
Amd Phenom (tm) II x4 965 Processor 3.39Ghz
8.0 GB (7.75GB usuable)

My motherboard is ASRock M3A785GMH/128M
Yes it does have integrated graphics.

Video card GeForce GT 220 1GB 128-Bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card

 

[swifty_morgan]

did you line up the triangle on the processor with the triangle on the processor slot corner before lowering the arm?

 

[jsh169]

Yes.

 

[swifty_morgan]

on boot up you need to go into the BIOS and shut down hybrid crossfire.

after doing that and the problem persists.......... go back into the BIOS on boot up and make sure the machine "sees" the card ( points to it ( PEG or PCI_e slot and or if there's a setting for "auto" use that.

 

[jsh169]

I do not see the option for hybrid cross fire in the bios options.

 

[swifty_morgan]

has to be something there....... on board graphics/ something or other. i can't see your bios and it's been a while and don't remember the exact terminology to look for.

 

[jsh169]

has to be something there....... on board graphics/ something or other. i can't see your bios and it's been a while and don't remember the exact terminology to look for.

Here are the options that I see somewhat related. The first is the feature, the second is the options.

Primary Graphics Adapter Onboard, PCI, PCI Express
I changed this to PCI Express when I had the card in, it was set on PCI

Internal Graphics Memory UMA, Sideport, UMA +Sideport
PCI Devices Power On Enabled/Disabled (was disabled, not sure if this means no power goes to the card)

ACPI HPET Table Enabled/Disabled
HDMI HD Audio Enabled/Disabled.

Features that I think are pretty set in stone, but who knows

PCI Latency Timer 32
PCI IDE Busmaster Enabled/Disabled.

 

[swifty_morgan]

sideport is what it is. disable all that //pci-e should be right. (disable) //HDMI disable if not using //

did you save your settings before leaving BIOS......... don't know what BIOS you have but F10-ENTER used to do it. should be instructions on bottm of screen or they pop up on new BIOS'.

when is the last time you went to windows update?

 

[jsh169]

sideport is what it is. disable all that //pci-e should be right. (disable) //HDMI disable if not using //

did you save your settings before leaving BIOS......... don't know what BIOS you have but F10-ENTER used to do it. should be instructions on bottm of screen or they pop up on new BIOS'.

when is the last time you went to windows update?

I update whenever I can, last update was today at about 1 am. I tried sideport and uma and it didn't seem to matter. I can not fully disable the feature, I have to choose uma, sideport, or uma + sideport. Yes i was sure to save the settings when I changed them.

 

[swifty_morgan]

shut down. reset cmos. pull graphics card. hook monitor to on board graphics. boot. do stuff. what happens?

 

[jsh169]

shut down. reset cmos. pull graphics card. hook monitor to on board graphics. boot. do stuff. what happens?

As soon as that happened again, after trying it a few different ways I pulled the video card. I loaded performance defaults and the machine seems to run the exact same. There were no default bios loading options. I chose the sata/ide option.

 

[swifty_morgan]

so after resetting the cmos ( you did that right )?............ and hooking to on board graphics them machine does the same thing?

so, remove all components from motherboard and then from case-(that includes processor). rebuild machine. what happens?

what power supply do you have?

 

[jsh169]

so after resetting the cmos ( you did that right )?............ and hooking to on board graphics them machine does the same thing?

so, remove all components from motherboard and then from case-(that includes processor). rebuild machine. what happens?

what power supply do you have?

There is no option for resetting bios, I just loaded default performance for sata/ide. If the choice was available, I must be completely blind. I tried pulling my motherboard off the case, when I cleaned it but could not pry it, but can pull my computer apart if you think it will be helpful. My psu is
hec HP585DB 585W ATX12V Power Supply - Power Cord Included
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817339012

 

[sajitha wewegama]

Did you have ESD protection?If not might be an expensive mistake,but that should be your very last conclusion.

 

[swifty_morgan]

page 13............... #22

download foxit reader to see the information. ( only install foxit reader not any other stuff that might be with it ).............. and no, don't install adobe acrobat because it takes way too long to open work and it gets maggot infested.............

http://filehippo.com/download_foxit/download/8af5e58e10999c64227bfe2df57ea6a3/

 

[jsh169]

Did you have ESD protection?If not might be an expensive mistake,but that should be your very last conclusion.

Im assuming not because I have no idea what that is. Looking it up, I don't believe I do.

 

[swifty_morgan]

so, did you reset the cmos?

 

[jsh169]

so, did you reset the cmos?

There is no reset option. I have loaded bios default performance setttings and regular default settings. On both settings my machine seems to run fine. Ill keep messing with this foxxit reader, but it seems it is just an empty pdf, I have no clue how to operate the program.

 

[swifty_morgan]

if you installed foxit reader and you opened the pdf, you should be able to see the document.