[GeForce 6] Video Problem

 
Hello
I have a MSI 6600GT PCI-E card which was working fine up until I bought Half Life 2. The game worked for 2 days then something strange happened then monitor switched itself off and I could not switch it back on again. I shut down the computer but ever since then none of my games work including HL2.
I have a Dell 4700 P4 3.00 with 512MB. I have updated the video driver and the system BIOS, uninstalled the video driver and reinstalled it, I've removed an older version of the video driver, checked that a have the lattest version of direct X and defragged my hard drive but to no avail.
Whenever I try to load a game just before it gets to the option screen the picture is garbled.
What is going on? The card surely cannot be incompatible, it worked for a couple of months previously. It is unlikely to be faulty as it would be a remarkable coincidence for the card to develop a fault at the same time as I bought a new game. The card is definently properly seated in the correct slot.
The desktop and the internet work not problem, it's just games that cause the video problems.
I would be very grateful if someone could give me a clue as to what's wrong because I'm no expert!

Quote from: Ian Humphrey on 29-May-05, 23:02:34
Hello
I have a MSI 6600GT PCI-E card which was working fine up until I bought Half Life 2. The game worked for 2 days then something strange happened then monitor switched itself off and I could not switch it back on again. I shut down the computer but ever since then none of my games work including HL2.
I have a Dell 4700 P4 3.00 with 512MB. I have updated the video driver and the system BIOS, uninstalled the video driver and reinstalled it, I've removed an older version of the video driver, checked that a have the lattest version of direct X and defragged my hard drive but to no avail.
Whenever I try to load a game just before it gets to the option screen the picture is garbled.
What is going on? The card surely cannot be incompatible, it worked for a couple of months previously. It is unlikely to be faulty as it would be a remarkable coincidence for the card to develop a fault at the same time as I bought a new game. The card is definently properly seated in the correct slot.
The desktop and the internet work not problem, it's just games that cause the video problems.
I would be very grateful if someone could give me a clue as to what's wrong because I'm no expert!
Hmmmmmm....
Well you posted that it worked OK, so there is no reason to believe the drivers are at fault. They don't work only work sometimes...unless something has changed how they work.
Now I don't know exactly what you mean by shut off here with the monitor. I assume you mean the screen just goes all black, but it still has power. Not that it shut's off completely.
If the screen is going black the first thing I would look at would be a refresh rate is being sent to the monitor that it can not handle. This might also explain a garbled picture as well. Some monitors will let you know they can't handle the refresh rate with a message, but not all.
Most monitors will let you see the signal information by using their on screen display controls. The next time it happens. Use the controls on the monitor to see if you can find out what signal the video card is sending to the monitor. It might list it as unrecognizable, out of range something like that.

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    Ciao.

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