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OSCAR BORJA Posted on Nov 28, 2007
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FAULTY VIDEO CARD

I need some help with this one. My PC display is experiencing problems like corrupt images, faulty animations, sometimes I can see vertical lines on the screen. On the worst case, my PC stops responding from mouse movements or keyboard commands and more often the screen display starts blinking or blacking out. I tried reinstalling the driver a few times already. I put the display configuration & the hardware acceleration bar to the lowest setting & still the problems persists. Only on the windows safe mode and when I disabled the video card on the device manager properties the problems stop occuring. I think its the Nvidia GeForce2 MX400/400 graphics card that has problem but I still need some feedback from others to make sure. So any opinion will be helpful. THANKS!

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    OSCAR BORJA Feb 06, 2008

    To all members:

    I'm no longer looking for a solution for this problem because I already upgraded my PC with brand new components. So please stop posting new solutions for this particular problem. Thank you.

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I owould say that most definitely your card is shot. Once you start to see Artifacts (corruptions as you call them) this is a near -definite sign that something is wrong with your card. I used to have an old computer with a Ge-force MX400. . .It was a pretty good card for a while. . .But just like everything else. . .I needed to upgrade. . .You should be able to get a good 6000 series Nvidia AGP card for under $70.00. . .I recommend the 6600. . .And if you can afford it . . .I would go up to the 7600 series (probably around 125.00 though). . .

There is really nothing you can do to fix this issue with your card. . .unless you have a warranty. . .If so, you will probably need to contact the MFG, and request an RMA. . .you will need to make sure you have your original sales receipt. . .RMA's are kind of a pin in the &@$. . .

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If it is a AGP card it is not possible that the graphics card can make the keyboard and mouse not respond.
If it is a PCI card there is a chance that it can do what you mentioned.
Also it could be the size of the graphics card, a 512 mg card can sometimes need a 500W power supply so you could get your power supply diagnosed as well.
Hope this helps

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  • Posted on Nov 27, 2007

SOURCE: Nvidia GeForce2 MX400/400

I have the same card....and my PC stops responding from mouse movements sometimes, but not anymore. I found that if I always use the HIBERNATE feature of Windows, that my video problems vanish, so I think the problem is related to video RAM, but not sure, because virtual memory caching plays a large role during wake from hibernate. Also ensure that BIOS video settings are not too extreme, go with the normal or default video settings.

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  • Posted on Jan 31, 2008

SOURCE: VIDEO CARD PROBLEM

scan your PC for viruses and spyware in the safemode.
Use mcafee. If you don't want to pay, just use the trial.
If it does not help, format your computer.
Get your graphics card and your slot tested by a local hardware dealer.
In the worst cases, you will have to get your graphics card and/or motherboard replaced.

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The video card sends video data to the monitor. If the monitor does not display any images then the video card could be faulty.
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You may have a defective CCFL backlight, it may have the following symptom: Screen flashes on and off or displays reddish pink hue. Picture stays on in red and slowly be come normal. Picture flickering with dim display or appear black. Picture flickers on and off. All these symptoms indicate that the LCD backlight lamp (CCFL Lamp) has reached the end of the life and all you need to do is replace the CCFL lamp.
To determine if the video card or the LCD is faulty, connect an external monitor to your laptop and power the monitor up first then the laptop, if you see the normal Windows images then the video card and laptop is OK and the problem is definitely the backlight. Dim image and/or dark display on the laptop's LCD screen indicates a faulty LCD backlight. It could be a faulty inverter that supplies high voltage to the CCFL lamp or it is the CCLF lamp is nearly burnt out, usually the CCFL lamp fails before the inverter.
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