NeilT

Turned on my pc (p4, 3.4 ghz) this morn to find vertical lines on the monitor right from the bios screen. Vista boots to bsod every time, but manages safe mode, again with vertical lines down screen. I suspect the graphics card is on its last legs ( aging nvidia fx5700) but no way of testing it.

So before I shell out for a new card, anyone any suggestions for what else to try?

Ta
Neil

BlkKnight

Always worth checking your RAM, but it does sound video related.

Have you cleaned out the heatsync & reseated the card?

google: memtest86

NeilT

Done a mem chk all ok. Taken card out and vacuumed all dust out and reseated.

So any recommendations for a decent card for this old machine?

The Rig

iTrader: (13)

what kind of card do you want ?
i have an nvidia dual monitor video card,what architecure do u need, pci agp pci express etc

cheers

NeilT

just PCI, single monitor. Pcs not used for games much, apart from a bit of c&c now & THM

jpor

iTrader: (1)

If you have an AGP slot then that would be a better option. Plenty of cheap AGP cards to be had:

Graphics Cards Nvidia - nVIDIA GeForce FX 52/55/5700 - Ebuyer