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    Asus C90S; 8600M GT graphic card issue?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Aphex_ex_machina, Jan 12, 2010.

  1. Aphex_ex_machina

    Aphex_ex_machina Newbie

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    Hi there,

    I have the following problem. Since Summer 2007 I own the C90s and was quiet happy with the purchase, up to now. Unfortunatley it began with a polymorphic file infector called virut (which I caught from a pen drive) and which forced me into throwing in the towel. I erased my entire HD and on occasion put on a new OS (XP to Vista). It went good for about 3 days when suddenly my screen got a weird colored distortion with a blue screen came by. I restarted a dozen times it only helped for around 30 min to 2 hours. I experimented hopelessly with nvidia and Intel drivers, updated Vista, checked the hardware and cooling but I didn't find anything noticeable then I decided to reinstall Vista, this actually solved it but again only for few days. In this several days I looked into differnet forums where I found a post (can't find it anymore) which stated it's known to nvidia that some 8600M GT have problems with Vista ('nvlddmkm.sys' taken from my note). After the next crash I installed XP and indeed I got my peace ... for a week. It happened again when I was playing Stalker however with one slight difference, within the safemode XP is functioning stable but looks like this.
    (the screen distortion begins right off with the starting screen of Bios.)


    My question is: What could be the source? Is it my graphic card? (a new one will cost about 100€ in Germany, quite a lot for an obviously discontinued model).
    Or maybe some other hardware like RAM? It cannot be the screen itself I plugged a monitor via VGA showing the same distortion.

    Thanks in advance for sharing any ideas.​

    Edit: I forgot to mention the memory spec: 512 MB GDDR2.
     
    Aphex_ex_machina, Jan 12, 2010
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    Aphex_ex_machina Newbie

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    It is obviously a graphic card problem when I can take a picture of it :eek:

    But even when I would buy a new one, it would not solve the problem, because it's a general failure of nvidia's construction :(
    G84 and G86 are all faulty, so thx to nvidia.

    I'm out of the fragile notebook business, wish me luck for the desktop parts.
     
    Aphex_ex_machina, Jan 22, 2010
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    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    moral hazard, Jan 22, 2010
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