Seeing Red.
The first time it happened, I blamed the death sequence in HL2...
I was driving down Highway 17. I hopped out of the rail buggy to knock some cars off the cliff edge with my gravity gun, when suddenly a mine nailed me squarely between the shoulder blades. As I hit the waves below, HL2's read death sequence greeted me.
Yet as I resurrected at my last save point, the view was still red-tinged. Thinking it was a graphical error in HL2, I exited to the desktop, only to discover that everything was still red-tinged. I rebooted the machine, expecting it to clear. The POST sequence was also red. Uh oh. I switched DVI ports on the back of the card, and it was magically cured. Switching back, I found that the issue had cleared up on the original DVI port as well.
The other day, I was browsing the web, and it happened again. Simply switching DVI ports cleared it up again. But the problem's repeat performance, especially during non-graphically intensive tasks, has me worried.
Originally I suspected the beta nVidia driver that I installed in order to play the demo for BioShock... but the more I think about the bloody POST screen, the less that makes sense.
The video card is a BFG Tech BFGR76256GTOCE GeForce 7600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16, in an Abit AN8-SLI motherboard.
Any recommendations? Is the card signaling impending death?
I was driving down Highway 17. I hopped out of the rail buggy to knock some cars off the cliff edge with my gravity gun, when suddenly a mine nailed me squarely between the shoulder blades. As I hit the waves below, HL2's read death sequence greeted me.
Yet as I resurrected at my last save point, the view was still red-tinged. Thinking it was a graphical error in HL2, I exited to the desktop, only to discover that everything was still red-tinged. I rebooted the machine, expecting it to clear. The POST sequence was also red. Uh oh. I switched DVI ports on the back of the card, and it was magically cured. Switching back, I found that the issue had cleared up on the original DVI port as well.
The other day, I was browsing the web, and it happened again. Simply switching DVI ports cleared it up again. But the problem's repeat performance, especially during non-graphically intensive tasks, has me worried.
Originally I suspected the beta nVidia driver that I installed in order to play the demo for BioShock... but the more I think about the bloody POST screen, the less that makes sense.
The video card is a BFG Tech BFGR76256GTOCE GeForce 7600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16, in an Abit AN8-SLI motherboard.
Any recommendations? Is the card signaling impending death?
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Those are the normal things I try to figure out if the monitor, cable, or system are at fault. If the system is at fault... Still could be something other than graphics card. Heatsink on the GPU clean? Is it running REALLY hot?
It is also possible the one DVI port you are using is going bad... that has also happened to me before.
Actually, it is a Dell LCD that uses a VGA cable and I'm using a DVI-VGA adapter. Could the adapter be a possible culprit as well?
Yikes! So many variables!
Thanks for the advice!