Did my card die?

[SorryImLate]

I currently have a BFG fx5500 pci. Trying to figure out if its dead or a cooling problem. The night before it was working perfectly while gaming and web surfing. That night i turned off the computer and then turned it on the next morning. When my comp starts up it will first display the compaq screen, then display windows XP, then i will see my desktop with all my icons. About five seconds after i see my desktop with icons it goes away and its desplaying a bunch of lines and squares. Im wondering if its a cooling issue because ive heard many times that the fans go out or dont work well or is it dead. This will happen before my computer is fully loaded so im not able to click on anything yet.

Thanks for help

The screen looks kind of like this pic in simular post

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=31&threadid=2148697

 

[GonePlaid]

My old x1650 did that a few times when I was playing around with the overclocking. Could be a heat issue. Did you try going into windows safe mode also?

 

[SorryImLate]

No not yet. ill try. Also do you know if the FX series card are able to desplay temps because before this happened both ntune and rivatuner wont show any temps on the card.

Also this is happening while the card is at stock clocks. When the comps starts up i have it set that way so its not overclocked during startup.

 

[GonePlaid]

Originally posted by: SorryImLate
No not yet. ill try. Also do you know if the FX series card are able to desplay temps because before this happened both ntune and rivatuner wont show any temps on the card.

Also this is happening while the card is at stock clocks. When the comps starts up i have it set that way so its not overclocked during startup.

Hmm, sorry can't really help in the driver area since I've never owned an Nvidia card.


Also try going into your bios and let it run for a little bit there see what happens if the windows safe mode doesn't work either. Then, more than likely it's a heat issue. The fan may need replacing.

 

[SorryImLate]

well if thats what it is then thats cool cuz i dont really want to buy a PCI card since im building new comp

 

[BassBomb]

That card does not have a temp monitor unfortunately

Does it have a fan? I'd check to see if its functioning and see how hot the heatsink gets by touch

 

[SorryImLate]

Yea it has a very small fan but from reviews on newegg and other sites it seems that many of the fx series fans would break so maybe that just happened to mine.