[Leaplist] so, dead nv part?

[Bryan J. Smith]

Things to attempt ...  
- Reset the video cable (just-in-case)  
- Reset the AGP card  
- Try another power supply  

-- Bryan

P.S.  Guess what?  I have an extra GeForce 6800GT 256MiB AGP
if you're interested.  Not, 6600GT, but a nice, 2x butt-kicking 6800GT.  ;)

I bought right when they came out for $399 some 6 years ago, so
they work with _older_ AGP boards.  I.e., it an original NV40, older than
the NV43 (6600GT), which came out later.  ;)

Iwas going to give it to my brother a few years ago (in an old Athlon
XP2600+ system), but he's happy with a far more simple Xbox 360
I gave him.

I haven't sold it because it's not worth selling when you can get a
7800GT or 9600GT for under $100 with better performance.  At the
same time, it's an unique AGP part that is hard to find.


----- Original Message ----
From: Jason Boxman <jasonb at edseek.com>

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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