Problem with my graphics card.

August 5th, 2016

Hey guys,
Because google hasn’t been useful, I’ve decided to come to my local w-bb and ask you real people for some help. I have recently noticed with my (coming up to) 2 year old computer, that I’m having alot of issues regarding crashes and freezes. Sometimes if i slam my desk real hard, the computer freezes? Sometimes on boot the BIOS screens go real funny. Another thing i have noticed with this, is that games i used to be able to play lag free at around 60-90 fps, are now lagging and vary from 10-20.
This is an issue I am fed up with. I have tested this theory on a game i know has an FPS counter countinously, Live for Speed. I would usually get 90-100 fps. At times, i get to as low as 2.3 fps.
System specs are:
CPU: Asus p5p800-VM 3ghz
RAM: 2gb 184PIN DDR
GFX: 256mb nVidia GeForce 6600GT
HDD: 80GB internal, 300GB external
Soundcard: C-Media 8733
OS: Microsoft XP Home SP2
Thankyou for your help and support.

Answer #1
Slamming what your PC tower is sitting on can temporarily cause shorts, crashes and even loosen connections. Re-check all the internal connections in your case. Make sure all your cards/ram are seated properly. And has your vid card been loud lately or anything you have noticed besides a decrease in FPS?
Answer #2
I’m not actually slamming the tower, its the desk. But the tower must vibrate though it?
I’ve taken it all out, cleaned it, put it all back in.
Last night i had the side off, and the card’s fan slows down once XP boots? Would some BIOS setting’s be causing it?
Answer #3
get speedfan to check your temps, it’s free
what resolution you running your games @ ? same as before ?
any hardware changes at all in the 2 yrs ?
you also remove & reseat the CPU ?
try uninstalling your display adapter in device mgr & reboot, letting windows reinstall it
then install the latest drivers
if you’ve installed the 160 series driver try going back to the 90 series
Answer #4
Im running my games are the same, and they lag. But if i reduce the resoultion, it’s the excat same? I’ve added an extra gig of ram recently, but this was happening abit before that. I put 90 series back on, and im doing a virus scan, so hopefully it fixes up.
Might even give it another reformat.

 

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