What happened to my vid card!??!?!?

[JackelMaster]

I tried playin the FEAR expansion demo and when I started it up, my monitor went black and I had to reboot, from there my windows wont start up anymore. So the only way I can start up windows is by disabling my Graphics Card on Safe mode. When I enable it, my monitor would bug out and freeze and I would have to restart my comp again.

I have a Gefore 6800 GT PCI-E slot 256MB

How do I fix this if I can before I send it back to EVGA?

Mind you I bought this card about a year ago

[Hawkes]

Well, EVGA is pretty good about warranty so you probably won't have a problem.  Can you adjust the video settings in safe mode?

[JackelMaster]

yep but it does work. What I am going to try is test the card out with my friend's comp. If it bugs out there then I'll know its the card. If its fine, Ima check out my power supply and if that is okay I will have to just reformat my HD because I cant reinstall my drivers. But I doubt thats the problem. I really think the card just got shot

[Hawkes]

after a year?  that means you either don't have enough power going to it or you had a brown out.

[Phazis]

It might not be a card itself. Could very well be power supply, motherboard etc. I saw the strangest things in my life .... I recall my nightmare problem when I killed 2 CPUs and 3 Motherboards in a week (thank god I could return it all) and the problem was poor design of case that was shorting somewhere.

What I would do first is grab some other card (might be even PCI) and try if you can keep to OS stable with other card.
Another thing you could do is bring the system to the "Minimum" components and see where it takes you.

[JackelMaster]

It was the vid card. I tried it on my friends PC same problems, so Im sendin it back to EVGA for a replacement. In the mean time, I rebuilt my old pc to keep me sane 

[KVGriffin]

EVGA + Lifetime warrenty FTW

[JackelMaster]

It ended up being the Vid Card. They sent me a new one so my system is back online