[Leaplist] so, dead nv part?

[Jason Boxman]

So I was playing BF2, minding my own business, when I arrived at some of 
the oddest distortions I'd ever seen the game produce, at which point it 
locked up.  (Some of the graphics overlays disappeared, which never 
happens during normal play.)

Now, the Windows start up logo doesn't look quite right, with some 
slightly noticeable oddness in the logo (a handful of out of place 
orange dots) and it never makes it any further with the display going dark.

I'm going to guess the nv part up and died.  The fan still works, so I 
don't think it overheated.  Have to find and pop in a Linux live CD to 
be sure, but it seems pretty hosed.

Figures.  It's an old AGP based board, too.  Can't afford to upgrade to 
replace it with a PCIe card, so it seems I'm done unless my old 6600GT 
still works...


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