PC's suddenly terrible video [shuttle sn25p] [ocd]
Q: (reposted at General Hardware, got no answers)
I a computer built for a friend a few months ago. It was implemented in tip-top shape, until all of a sudden, his graphics are slow in browsing and Windows games like HL2 and WOW would not open. Here are the specs: 3,000 +
Shuttle SN25P
A64 originally OCD at 2.5GHz (prime stable for 24 hours)
1gig Corsair Value (passed Memtest after the OC, twice)
Gigabyte 6600GT PCI E
Samsung 160gig SATA HD
The video card is apparently still works somewhat, because There are the images on the montior, but Firefox and Explorer, go slowly, almost like moving in a few frames or waves. Windows loads fast, normal, the computer can open AIM, surfing the Internet and type in Open Office. WoW and HL2 crash on startup however.
I have the SATA cables are replaced, reset my OC back to standard, had him on the run Ad-Aware and AVG scans and installed new video card drivers. What should I try it, or what do you think would be wrong?
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Re:Thanks for the suggestions, anyone else have anything?
I'll get post after I try the Ad-aware and AVG in safe mode, and check the drivers.
If those don't work I'm going to try a reformat and fresh Windows install. After that, I'm afraid it will probably be an RMA back to Newegg, or something along those lines.
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Re:Run your CPU at regular speed (just in case) and go to Windows device manager. Make sure your system is using Nvidia drivers and not standard VGA/default adapter drivers. Maybe, just maybe, the system will need to be forced to use the Nvidia drivers if they refuse to install using the normal set up routine. I've only run into this a couple of times though, but it's easy to check for.
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Re:One other thing is to try and run the adware scan and the antivirus scan while the comuter is in safe mode (hit F8 while booting). You might have done that already I am not sure.
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Re:The video card isn't OC'd. I'll ask him to look in task manager and see the CPU usage.
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Re:Is it as if something is running in the background and using up the CPU time? Was the video card overclocked?
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