The other day, I just had my video cut out. i was playing an mmo, and talking in ventrilo. I could talk to people in ventrilo, look on another computer and see my character moving. So my computer was interacting with everything fine, I just got “no signal”, when I messed with the monitor.
I turned off the computer, and the video turned on as I was powering down, until this morning after I used a vacuum cleaner to blow out the dust from inside the case. A little while later, the video just cut out again.
This time, powering it down did no good. However when I moved the monitor cable from one divx plug to the other, the video came on, and by way of experiment, I moved the cable back, and my video stayed on.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling my video drivers, but after uninstalling, when the computer rebooted, the video cut out again when i hit the icon to log into my user account from the user account screen. This time I had to switch the cable plug, and leave it on the 2nd divx plug
Some specs on my computer.
Board: ASUSTek Computer INC. M2NPV-VM 1.xx
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT [Display adapter]
Gateway FPD1975W [Monitor] (19.1″vis, s/n MGJ76D0L11812, June 2007)
Currently it is working. However I just tried moving the monitor cable back to the old plug, and the video stayed on for about 2 seconds and cut out. My guess is that the plug i was using is probably bad.
Does this mean that my video card is going bad? If the 2nd plug works, its not much of a loss, but I’m wondering if this means that i’m going to have to replace the video card. I’m also wondering if what i’ve done is proof enough that the video card is the problem, and if its only the plug that’s bad or if the entire card is bad.
i also used furmark 1.70, and got the following score.
# Score: 736 o3Marks
# Submitted by david @ August 24 2009, 4:43 pm
# App Version: oZone3D.Net_FurMark_v1.7.0_Build_Jul 3 2009_at_09:19:42
# Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
# Number of Active GPUs: 1
# Graphics Drivers: ForceWare 6.14.11.8618 6-10-2009
# GPU Temperatures (start/end):59?C / 83?C
# Bench Duration: 60 sec.
# Resolution: 1440 x 900
# MSAA samples: 0
# Window Mode: fullscreen
# CPU: AMD Athlontm 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800
# CPU Speed: 2004 MHz
# Operating System: Windows XP build 2600 Service Pack 3
