One more cup of coffee

Toasted video card?

Tonight, when I came home from work, I went into our office, turned on my PC, and came back out into the dining room. A few minutes later, I heard a beep from my PC, which seemed very odd. I got caught up in some other things, and didn't make it into the office until a bit later, when I discovered that the monitor wasn't showing any video. But the PC was on. Curiouser and curiouser, I thought. No matter -- reset the PC and move on.

Windows popped up some alert about the nVidia driver doing something bad. Again, didn't seem like that big a deal. Sometimes drivers screw up. Whatever. I played a game on the PC for a bit, then my video game froze. Fine, reboot it again.

Launch the game. Freeze. Completely.

Reboot. Curse nVidia. Launch IE, start to type the web address for nVidia's web site to get the latest drivers -- freeze while typing the URL. Note with increasing alarm the curious pixel glitches all over the screen.

Reboot long enough to uninstall the nVidia drivers. Reboot again. OK, it's getting worse -- now even the BIOS splash screen has vertical lines running across it.

Turn everything off, pull the video card out, reseat it. Nope, still lots of vertical lines.

It was just ten months ago that I bought the card... sigh.

I wonder how long the warranty on PNY's nVidia cards is for? Time to find out, I guess.

Posted by Mike at April 28, 2003 09:54 PM