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Hi all,
Bit of a problem occurred this morning. My NVidia 5700LE AGP graphics card fitted with a Zalman ZM80D-HP and OP1 decided to give up the ghost.
I think it is the graphics card, it could well be the AGP bus of the motherboard although the onboard video is working fine.
I noticed that when I turned on the computer this morning, the bios diagnostic screen was flickering (almost like there was interference) and when Linux started to load, I could see only a screen full of random characters (a bit like the Matrix!), when it booted into the GUI, it looked very strange - it looked like there was a very strong ghosting effect and was totally unusable. When I rebooted again there was nothing but a black screen, however when I moved the monitor cable from the NVidia to the onboard VGA port - it worked as normal.
Has anyone had this type of experience? Do you think it is more likely to be the graphics card or motherboard? I want to be sure before I buy another graphics card. I am wondering if the VGA card overheated or something touched something else and shorted a circuit board.
Bit of a problem occurred this morning. My NVidia 5700LE AGP graphics card fitted with a Zalman ZM80D-HP and OP1 decided to give up the ghost.
I think it is the graphics card, it could well be the AGP bus of the motherboard although the onboard video is working fine.
I noticed that when I turned on the computer this morning, the bios diagnostic screen was flickering (almost like there was interference) and when Linux started to load, I could see only a screen full of random characters (a bit like the Matrix!), when it booted into the GUI, it looked very strange - it looked like there was a very strong ghosting effect and was totally unusable. When I rebooted again there was nothing but a black screen, however when I moved the monitor cable from the NVidia to the onboard VGA port - it worked as normal.
Has anyone had this type of experience? Do you think it is more likely to be the graphics card or motherboard? I want to be sure before I buy another graphics card. I am wondering if the VGA card overheated or something touched something else and shorted a circuit board.
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