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Problem with screen turning grey/purple. XPS 420 w/ 8800GT
I have been having a problem with my screen turning grey or purple while playing games. It has so far only happened in World in Conflict, Lord of the Rings Online and Call of Duty 4, but it's still very anoying. And the only option to continue using the computer is holding the power button to restart.
I tried a stresstest a while ago. The card was on about 57 Celsius when i started it, and it rised slowly, before the screen turned purple just after i saw it reached 87 Celsius.
What should i do?
The computer:
XPS 420
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Nvidia GeForce 8800GT
2GB 577Mhz RAM
500GB HDD
and what's usual on the 420's.
Help!
Scream_And_Fly
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August 26th, 2008 18:00
Ulrik
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August 26th, 2008 18:00
Nope. I downloaded RivaTuner for 5 Months ago, and messed a little around with it, but i decided not to overclock my card the same day, so i turned all the values to default and uninstalled.
Davet50
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August 26th, 2008 19:00
Ulrik
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August 27th, 2008 12:00
OK.
but i've been thinking... the fan never speeds up, not even just before it goes all purple. May this be a setting i've messed up? When i sets all the driver's settings to default, do i set everthing to what it was before?
Davet50
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August 27th, 2008 13:00
The default setting on the driver do not really affect the fan speed. That is contolled by the card itself. It could be that the card temp has not reached the profile point where it needs to bump up the fan speed. Ther 880gt's do on the average run a bit on the warm side. It may be that this card is more intolerant of the higher temps.
I still feel you should try to up the fan speed and see if the same thing happens.
Ulrik
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August 27th, 2008 14:00
Ulrik
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August 28th, 2008 12:00