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#1 pinneyapple
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I just started a private match on MW2 and within 10 seconds of standing still the alarm went off with Nvtemplogger, it shot up to 80 degrees celsius.

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Its idling at 69 degrees celsius.

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if your PC is booting fine in safe mode (everything appears as it should and all that) then chances are your GPU is fine and you driver got messed up somehow. there should be a driver cleaning tool that you can run after uninstalling a driver....but im not sure on the name of the tools. have a poke around. basically it gets rid of all the settings files left over after uninstalling a driver. then reinstall the drivers (in safe mode if necessary) and try and boot normally. if that doesn't work then try repairing your install of windows using your windows CD. if that fails then format and reainstall (backing up whatever you need first of course). if none of that works then try and borrow a GPU from a mate (doesn't matter what one really) just to make sure a replacement will fix the problem. the fact that your PC is booting into safe mode fine is a good indication that you hardware is fine and that the fault lies in the software somewhere. its possible though that the hardware fault only appears when theres a bit more demand put on it. may as well try and narrow it down first though....might save a few quid :).osan0

Thanks for the suggestions, Its definately something wrong with my gpu. Even after trying other drivers it still wouldnt work, even tried using a really really old version from a few years ago.

I know its just a coincidence that my gpu died after playing it, but I'm sure that patch had some part to play in killing it.

I tried turning my pc off all night and just letting it rest, turned it on this morning and the problem has gone away. It'll most likely happen again if I play MW2, but I'm too scared to try it.

It seems a few other people have had the exact same problem as me with 8800 hardware over here on the MW2 pc board.

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[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

[QUOTE="pinneyapple"]

Yeah my 8800gts is also MSI and its been pretty good for the past 4 or so years that I've had it.

The problem I have at the moment is that something triggered the card tonight as soon as I joined a match in MW2 after it was updated on Steam. On startup I've got multiple verticle grey dotted lines and once windows starts the desktop is filled with a mixture of black and white squares, red, green and blue dots and other crazy patterns.

I'll try upload a picture from my camera of what it looks like on the desktop.

It is possible that it was the heat today that caused it, everyone else in my family was complaining about the heat today even though the weather felt fine to me. My pc was left on all day though as usual.

I read online people having similar problems but left their pc's off for a few days and it temporarily fixed things. So I'll give it a day and see what happens.

Anyone else had an experience like this? Best solution just to replace the gpu?

neatfeatguy

Considering that the original 8800gts was released just over 3 years ago, I don't think your card has lasted 4 years. But anyways.. was it an 8800GTS 320mb, 640mb, or 512mb? A 9800gt is faster than the 320 and the 640, but not the 512 (different GPU).

I was about to post the same thing you did, if no one else had beaten me to it. The first 8800GTS 320MB/640MB cards came out November of 2006 and the 8800GTS 512MB came out about a year later in December 2007.

The 9800GT gives you about a 15% boost over the 8800GTS 320/640 card and about a 10-15% lower in performance of the 8800GTS 512 card.

If you're stepping up from the 320/640MB cards to a 9800GT, then that's a good step. If you're going from the 512MB card, then you're moving backwards performance wise.

The price is a bit high for the 9800GT, but seeing as you don't live in the States, the markup in price looks to be unavoidable. Maybe look around for a HD 4850 or HD 4870 - they should be down in price since the launch of the 5xxx series from ATI.

Sweet, thanks for the info, I currently have the 8800gts 320 just to clear things up.

So I left my pc off all night, turned it on this morning and the problem appears to have gone away. But since the damage was done last night I'm sure it happen again, so I'll most definitely need to get the new card anyway.

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Heres a photo of the current state of my desktop.

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Heres a photo from my camera of my pc once it manages to get to the desktop.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v603/robophobic/DSC_1076.jpg

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[QUOTE="pinneyapple"][QUOTE="smc91352"]how much it costs is important ;)smc91352

I can get it for about $200nz where I live, so thats about $147us.

:o that's too much imo.

Thought so haha, thats what I get for living in NZ. Everything is overpriced!

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#9 pinneyapple
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how much it costs is important ;)smc91352

I can get it for about $200nz where I live, so thats about $147us.

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Yeah my 8800gts is also MSI and its been pretty good for the past 4 or so years that I've had it.

The problem I have at the moment is that something triggered the card tonight as soon as I joined a match in MW2 after it was updated on Steam. On startup I've got multiple verticle grey dotted lines and once windows starts the desktop is filled with a mixture of black and white squares, red, green and blue dots and other crazy patterns.

I'll try upload a picture from my camera of what it looks like on the desktop.

It is possible that it was the heat today that caused it, everyone else in my family was complaining about the heat today even though the weather felt fine to me. My pc was left on all day though as usual.

I read online people having similar problems but left their pc's off for a few days and it temporarily fixed things. So I'll give it a day and see what happens.

Anyone else had an experience like this? Best solution just to replace the gpu?