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July 27th, 2011 19:00
Nvidia graphics card help
I have a Dell Inspiron 530 with windows vista. I got it a few years ago and got a nvidia geforce 8300 gs graphics card when I did the build online thing.
For the last few days when I have to restart if my PC for some reason the screen comes back very screwed up and it seems the graphics card is not working right. I have had to restart the pc again to get it working right. But today I had to restart it 4 times before the screen went to normal.
What happens seems to be the screen goes to the lowest settings for size and colors and then looks like something printed on a dot matrix printer with lines missing. As far as I know I have the right drivers installed and wondering if I might need a new graphics card?
Kelbear1
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July 27th, 2011 20:00
I would first re-seat the 8300 GS in the PCIe slot and then uninstall the Nvidia driver and software. Then re-install the driver and software to see if things work. If not, pull the card out and just run from your onboard graphics. If the problem goes away, then you can assume that the card is bad and needs to be replaced. They still sell the 8400 GS which would be the retail version of the OEM 8300 GS if that's all you need for $30 - $40. However, you could get something better if you wanted.
RobinBredin
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July 29th, 2011 06:00
What you can do if you still have the Dell recovery partition on your HD is, reboot, then press F12 and go into your diagnostics and have the card checked. If you have removed the recovery partition, then boot off your drivers disc, and run the dell diagnostics from there. But if you do go for another card, and you have the normal tower, then get the ATI HD 5670 single card, that will run on a 300w PSU.
speedstep
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July 29th, 2011 09:00
This kind of video artifact is usually the Video card Fan or Worse Power Supply fan has failed and the GPU is overheating.