Ok, my story starts with me playing Half-Life 2. I was in the part with the hovercraft when suddenly the game froze and the graphics messed up. It wasn't really artifacts, just some of the textures turned a pure gray. A few minutes later the game resumed, but due to the problem with the textures I decided to quit and restart my computer. However, when I paused the game it froze again, (or possibly just became very slow with the mouse movements). At this point I used the button on the case to manually shut down the computer.
Now, when I power my computer back on the left side of the BIOS has very weird letters (artifacts), but it still passes POST and beeps only once. The loading screen for Windows looks perfect as far as I can tell, however the white border around the loading bar has a blue stripe. Once it finishes loading, though, the entire screen is black, except for the top, which flickers purple or blue.
Right now I've replaced the seemingly broken 8800GTS with my old 6600GT and everything works fine, but I still want to resolve this soon. I had plans to rebuild a second computer using the 6600GT and a few other old parts I had.
I guess what I'd like to know is if there is anyway to fix my 8800GTS. I wouldn't have imagined it overheated because I have two 120mm fans in my case and good air flow, though I guess it's not an impossible theory.
Now, when I power my computer back on the left side of the BIOS has very weird letters (artifacts), but it still passes POST and beeps only once. The loading screen for Windows looks perfect as far as I can tell, however the white border around the loading bar has a blue stripe. Once it finishes loading, though, the entire screen is black, except for the top, which flickers purple or blue.
Right now I've replaced the seemingly broken 8800GTS with my old 6600GT and everything works fine, but I still want to resolve this soon. I had plans to rebuild a second computer using the 6600GT and a few other old parts I had.
I guess what I'd like to know is if there is anyway to fix my 8800GTS. I wouldn't have imagined it overheated because I have two 120mm fans in my case and good air flow, though I guess it's not an impossible theory.