having touble with video card in wow and now other games

[exodusprime1337]

my roomate was playing wow and started to tell me about artifacts he was getting, texture issues, blackouts and the like. it only affected wow for a long time, all other games he plays are fine. then today he tells me that he cannot play any games, and that there are serious artifacts and the game will crash out after a certain period in time?? is there any explanation for this? i don't think it's hardware because it only affected one game for a period of time, the card is not oc'd and only has a zalman vf900 on it and that's about it. well the ramsinks as well. ceramique was used in stead of the as5 i usually use, so i don't think that it has anything to do with shorting out the card? please help i don' tknow what to do??

 

[Cold Storm]

How long has it been in that case? Then how long has the Aftermarket fan been on it? It might need a good cleaning with new TIM and some air cleaner.

 

[exodusprime1337]

it was in a box for about 3 months and then i rebuilt it for my roomate and gave him my old computer, specs are as follows

asus a8n32-sli deluxe
a64 4000 @ 3.0ghz
2 gig corsair xms at 258Mhz 3,3,3,8 2.9v
eVGA 7900gt-used to be voltmodded for about 3 weeks and then i dropped it back to stock clocks and all-has been stock for about a year and never goes over 45c during gaming sessions.

there is a zalman 9500 on the cpu and a vf900 on the gpu-vf900 has only been on for about 1year, perhaps i'll try to reseat it and clean it.

other then that the computer has been kept clean with little or no dust.

 

[Cold Storm]

Its best when you go Aftermarket cooler to have it reseated and such every so often. TIM does Dry after a while. So its best to go and reseat it every so often. IMO

 

[exodusprime1337]

well i'll give it a try, any chance the problem is software related??

 

[Cold Storm]

well, did you update to the new drivers?? I'm keeping mine at 169 and won't go to 174 yet. Want to give it some time... It could be driver issues, but a lot of times its heat build up and you needing to clean the card. Happened to my 3870. Giving the artifacts and then cleaned it and it was good..
So, if the cleaning doesn't work, then check drivers

 

[exodusprime1337]

ciool cool will do

 

[exodusprime1337]

well, tried teh driver trick, no go, tried cleaning it off with 91% rubbing alcohol and Canned air and no go, finally tried different pci express slots and still nothing, although down in the front corner of the board ont he backside are some ic's that are getting ungodly hot like too hot to touch and if i run the find max mem test the memory fails instantly and it starts dropping the clocks on the memory to nothin, then it crashes, i guess the card is just done huh??

 

[DaedalusHelios]

Yeah maybe a bad capacitor on the Graphics card.

Isolate it though. Put it in your "known working system" and see if it has the same problem.