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mushy408
17-04-08, 17:59
Hello there!

To cut a long story short, I was playing on C&C3 Tiberium Wars this morning when my system rebooted itself. Instead of showing me the usual POST screen, I got 3 beeps instead.
I removed the card, checked the PCI-E socket, and made sure the power connector was in right.
THEN, I powered on my system, and all the top half of the screen is garbled characters/colours.

When my pc started loading the desktop, the display stays all black, then I get a BSOD with the top half completely garbled.
Tried Safe Mode, and also tried the card in my friend's machine, and still get the same.

Since I've had this card, I've always had artifacting and strange corrupt textures when playing games, especially Crysis and C&C 3 Kane's Wrath. Me being me, I've just persevered and ignored it thinking it was a thermal issue.

Has anyone else had problems with this card? I know you need a pretty hefty PSU to feed it, which is why I bought one before buying this card.

Any help appreciated :)
Thanks for yo' time.

00mike000
17-04-08, 20:37
oo thats not a good sign, has it still got warranty left?

nft99
18-04-08, 09:00
which model card is it? what psu do u have?

i had a powercolor x1950 that for the first month or so i owned it tended to overheat when gaming, had to attach small extractor fan and that seemed to fix it.

Sl4x0r
18-04-08, 15:57
I think it's toast - depending on what brand it is, it may have a 3 year warranty though...

mushy408
23-04-08, 03:40
The brand of card is Inno3D. I've had the card since October last year.

My PSU a 550Watt, unsure of the brand - I think its PowerMax - but it has SATA power connectors.

I'm pretty cheesed off considering I spent nearly £100 on this card... :cry:

Sl4x0r
23-04-08, 17:04
You sure it's an Inno? I thought they only made nVidia cards...