Well...it finally happened. My graphics card went out on my comp. So Im sittin on my linux box with no games to play. :( If I could find my nwn discs I could, but *cries* I cant. So gonna have to wait a bit till I can play games again on the pc. damnit! Atleast now I can get my x1950's :D
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I wouldn't buy that card unless it's dirt cheap. R600 will be out in a few months (AMD/ATI DX10 part) which will bring prices down a lot on the x19xx cards.
I'm currently using a x850xt until i finally upgrade.
i.e. - When I turn that comp on, all it does is have a screen like the loading screen except its all white and fuzzy. Like on a tv with no reception, except the fuzz is more in focus and looks squiggly.
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Try removing you card and reinserting it, could just be loose. Otherwise, that sounds pretty much like a burnt out card. Though, in my experience, 3d graphics cards will either burn out their 3d chips (tilesets in NWN will flicker), or the 2d will fry (text in D2 goes squiggly) but the most common burnout is a complete loss of any signal to the monitor.
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lolz! I had emailled ATI about the problem and they sent me an email saying :
"Are you sure that it is the graphics card? It sounds like it is just your computers software has an error in it."
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can you boot into windows? can you post a screen shot?
Did you also smell a funny almost burning smell? lol
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Ah, the smell of burnt silicon, I know it well. New card new card, move down move down.
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