Vex Star » 5200 http://www.vexstar.com Computers and Programming Tue, 21 Jun 2011 01:52:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 So is my graphics card knackered? http://www.vexstar.com/so-is-my-graphics-card-knackered/ http://www.vexstar.com/so-is-my-graphics-card-knackered/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:21:38 +0000 admin http://www.vexstar.com/so-is-my-graphics-card-knackered/ think it probably is but just to confirm..

when I try and load a video my screen goes blank on/off and the CPU hits 100% usage. If I leave the video running the blank screens become more occurent until the PC hangs/reboots.

pretty similar to this guy really

but my PC doesn’t need a better PSU and it has used this one for a good couple of years or so.

post specs
does it happen to any video file? an HD vid can stress out cpus
have you tried different media players?

uninstall/update drivers?
any other vid card you can try out?

Computer
Computer Type ACPI Uniprocessor PC
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180 (IE 6.0 SP2)
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)

Motherboard
CPU Type AMD Athlon XP, 2000 MHz (15 x 133) 2400+
Motherboard Name MSI KT4 Ultra (MS-6590) (6 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DIMM, Audio)
Motherboard Chipset VIA VT8377 Apollo KT400
System Memory 768 MB (PC2100 DDR SDRAM)

Display
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (128 MB)
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

Multimedia
Audio Adapter BrookTree PCTV – Audio Section
Audio Adapter C-Media CMI8738 Audio Chip
Audio Adapter Hercules Game Theater XP Audio Accelerator

Storage
IDE Controller VIA Bus Master IDE Controller
SCSI/RAID Controller D347PRT SCSI Controller
Disk Drive ST340810A (40 GB, 5400 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100)
Disk Drive ST3320620A (298 GB, IDE)
Optical Drive Generic DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device
Optical Drive HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4167B (DVD+R9:8x, DVD-R9:4x, DVD+RW:16x/8x, DVD-RW:16x/6x, DVD-RAM:5x, DVD-ROM:16x, CD:48x/32x/48x DVD+RW/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM)
Optical Drive HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4520B (DVD:16x, CD:52x/24x/52x DVD-ROM/CD-RW)
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

appears to happen with all video files, youtube etc work fine though

tried several players

might have a go at stripping codecs, drivers and directx and starting again

no other card to try out :-(

appears to happen with all video files, youtube etc work fine though

tried several players

might have a go at stripping codecs, drivers and directx and starting again

no other card to try out :-(

your rig should play most vids but would work its ass off with HD content.
do try updating the drivers and shit. use drivercleaner if you can.
also check your temps (cpu/vid card). the hang reboot can also be caused by overheating.

That doesn’t mean it’s not dying.

True, any suggestions on methods of creating a load elsewhere on the PC? (Yea HD content never did work too well) I can’t find a sensor on the GFX card but the CPU temp is fine even throughout the spikes. Even loading a shitty FLV locally kills it.

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