Rahul
06-19-2008, 09:37 AM
Hi,
About 8 months ago, I bought an 8800Ultra xxx edition from xfx online through eBay.
It worked just fine in the beginning except when I played bioshock on 2560 x 1600 resolution. So I just stuck to 1920 x 1080, thinking that maybe it was just too much for the GPU. But about 2 months ago, I started having crashes in every 3d game.
I have tried over 30 games, and they all crash like 5 minutes into the game. The vista dreamscene crashes within 5 seconds.
I have tried different driver versions. And just to make sure that i clean out the old drivers from the system, I reformat my computer after trying out a different driver.
I have checked my RAM in memtest and for 2 days it showed no errors.
None of my hardware is overclocked, except the GPU, that is factory overclocked.
Finally I changed the GPU, and moved it to my other system, that had a xfx 7800GT. It crashed on that computer also.
Then i took it to my friends computer and put it in there. There also it crashed. I have tried this card on Vista, VistaSP1, XPSP2 and XPSP3. It crashed on all of them.So I am pretty sure that my GPU is stuffed. The temps arent that high, around 85 approx under load, though i havent been able to test it properly since it crashed pretty fast, if I put it under load.
So far I have bought 5 XFX GPU and never had a problem with them.
The eBay seller, I bought it from, isnt responding to my emails.
Now I dont know who to talk to regarding this issue. I want to have it replaced under warranty. I was searching google for a tech support number, but then i ran across this forum, so I thought I might as well post here, since it is supported by xfx.
P.S. Most of the time after a crash the computer shows a BSOD with the nvidia driver at fault, rest of the times, the game just crashes, and windows disables the Display driver.
My Computer Specs are:
Intel QX6800 CPU
Corsair 1024 x 4 8500 RAM
EP35-DS3 Gigabyte Motherboard
850Watt coolmaster PSU
xfx Geforce 8800 Ultra xxx edition
About 8 months ago, I bought an 8800Ultra xxx edition from xfx online through eBay.
It worked just fine in the beginning except when I played bioshock on 2560 x 1600 resolution. So I just stuck to 1920 x 1080, thinking that maybe it was just too much for the GPU. But about 2 months ago, I started having crashes in every 3d game.
I have tried over 30 games, and they all crash like 5 minutes into the game. The vista dreamscene crashes within 5 seconds.
I have tried different driver versions. And just to make sure that i clean out the old drivers from the system, I reformat my computer after trying out a different driver.
I have checked my RAM in memtest and for 2 days it showed no errors.
None of my hardware is overclocked, except the GPU, that is factory overclocked.
Finally I changed the GPU, and moved it to my other system, that had a xfx 7800GT. It crashed on that computer also.
Then i took it to my friends computer and put it in there. There also it crashed. I have tried this card on Vista, VistaSP1, XPSP2 and XPSP3. It crashed on all of them.So I am pretty sure that my GPU is stuffed. The temps arent that high, around 85 approx under load, though i havent been able to test it properly since it crashed pretty fast, if I put it under load.
So far I have bought 5 XFX GPU and never had a problem with them.
The eBay seller, I bought it from, isnt responding to my emails.
Now I dont know who to talk to regarding this issue. I want to have it replaced under warranty. I was searching google for a tech support number, but then i ran across this forum, so I thought I might as well post here, since it is supported by xfx.
P.S. Most of the time after a crash the computer shows a BSOD with the nvidia driver at fault, rest of the times, the game just crashes, and windows disables the Display driver.
My Computer Specs are:
Intel QX6800 CPU
Corsair 1024 x 4 8500 RAM
EP35-DS3 Gigabyte Motherboard
850Watt coolmaster PSU
xfx Geforce 8800 Ultra xxx edition