graphics card problem

[dandir]

Hello I have a nvidia geforce 8500gt card, it's been working good for around a year im not sure exactly when i bought it, but anyway a few days ago i was playing world of warcraft and my screen suddenly messed up, it got all blurry with green lines and stuff like that and my computer restarted. I went on wow again after the computer booted up and it happened again, so i didnt really know what to do and i just formatted my pc hoping it would fix it.

well now i can't get the card to work at all, when i boot my computer with the card the screen stays black and after like 15 seconds a blue screen comes up saying "Attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed", and it says the problem may have been caused from the new software which i have to go into safe mode and uninstall the drivers. I have downloaded the newest drivers and tried using the old drivers from the disc, and it does the same thing the screen stays black and the blue screen comes up. I am using windows vista 32-bit and an acer computer, im wondering if this can be fixed or if i have to buy a new card any help would be appreciated.

[Feather]

sound like an over heated and then toasted GPU
you just might have to spurge and get another card

[wapazoid]

Agreed. Display corruption like that usually means something onboard has failed. If possible, install the card in another system to confirm. Some manufacturers offer a good warranty on their cards. If you can, get an rma # and send it back. As for a replacement, a used 8800 on eBay can be had at a very affordable price.

[Crashtard]

You definitely need to contact the video card company. If it's under a year old it's probably under warranty, but if you think it's close you need to contact them soon so that you don't lose out on the warranty.

[mountain_rage]

If I recall correctly thats one of the lines of GPU's that have been failing in laptops due to a defect in the material. Apparently the same issue is present in desktops, but due to the environment don't cause as many issues. Most sites recommend overriding the fan so it stays maxed out all the time. Quite frankly its an annoying fix as your computer will be loud.

As mentioned bellow you should be able to override it using official nvidia softare.

[Feather]

If I remember right the software for overiding fan comes with the card