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Thanks in advance for your assistance. Playing Call Of Duty this morning, and game locked up my system (Dell XPS 600, GeForce 7800 GTX). Upon reboot, can't get the screen to come up. Boot in safe mode gets me to the desktop where I can disable the graphics card, and can get to the desktop but there's still blue patterning on it, a la:
So, my questions are:
1) Is the graphics card toast?
2) Does booting into safe mode automatically disable the graphics card?
3) Does the presence of the blue patterning indicate that the problem goes beyond the graphics card (to the mobo itself, for example)?
4) Can you recommend a replacement card that won't be bottlenecked by the Pentium D3.20 processor? And, would going to a two-Graphics Card setup sidestep any cpu bottleneck issues?
My Dell Service Tag is HPP 6961 if you're interested in the specs via www.support.dell.com. Tried a different comp. on the monitor to rule that out, re-inserted the graphics card into the mobo slot, and checked all connections.
Thanks a ton for the help. I'm fairly competent at swapping out components, but I'm at the limits of my technical understanding. I would love to get advice before I drop cash on a new graphics card that I only guess will resolve the issue. You da best.
Thanks in advance for your assistance. Playing Call Of Duty this morning, and game locked up my system (Dell XPS 600, GeForce 7800 GTX). Upon reboot, can't get the screen to come up. Boot in safe mode gets me to the desktop where I can disable the graphics card, and can get to the desktop but there's still blue patterning on it, a la:

So, my questions are:
1) Is the graphics card toast?
2) Does booting into safe mode automatically disable the graphics card?
3) Does the presence of the blue patterning indicate that the problem goes beyond the graphics card (to the mobo itself, for example)?
4) Can you recommend a replacement card that won't be bottlenecked by the Pentium D3.20 processor? And, would going to a two-Graphics Card setup sidestep any cpu bottleneck issues?
My Dell Service Tag is HPP 6961 if you're interested in the specs via www.support.dell.com. Tried a different comp. on the monitor to rule that out, re-inserted the graphics card into the mobo slot, and checked all connections.
Thanks a ton for the help. I'm fairly competent at swapping out components, but I'm at the limits of my technical understanding. I would love to get advice before I drop cash on a new graphics card that I only guess will resolve the issue. You da best.