nvidia 9600m GT RRoD'd on me....halp? :/

[laesperanzapaz]

First off, GPUz says 65C, which i believe is ok for a GPU.  And it's never that warm, so temp is nott the problem.

But the bloody thing is fucking my display.  When i try to play any kind of game, it fucks up and i have to reboot. Even when i am not doing anything graphically intensive - like normal browsing on the web - it will a few times spaz out on me. 

I mean, I can't keep rebooting like this.  What hsould i do?

PS: i have the latest drivers, according to Vista 64, which is what i have.

PSS: any help is appreciated.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

your card died, buy a new one

[demi]

type *.rar

[Van Cruncheon]

the "M" is a laptop chipset, he'll need to mail the machine back to the manufacturer

[laesperanzapaz]

i'm somewhat confident this is more a software/driver issue, than a hardware issue. 

in any case, i've already tried reverting to an older driver.
lemme ask this: if i uninstall the driver, i can still re-download from nvidia anytime i wish right? in other words, is there any danger to uninstalling? [obviously, some GPU-intensive stuff like games will be out of commission, but nothing permanent, of course?]

thanks for help, btw.

[MrAngryFace]

First off, GPUz says 65C, which i believe is ok for a GPU.  And it's never that warm, so temp is nott the problem.

But the bloody thing is fucking my display.  When i try to play any kind of game, it fucks up and i have to reboot. Even when i am not doing anything graphically intensive - like normal browsing on the web - it will a few times spaz out on me. 

I mean, I can't keep rebooting like this.  What hsould i do?

PS: i have the latest drivers, according to Vista 64, which is what i have.

PSS: any help is appreciated.

describing spaz would help lol

[laesperanzapaz]

anything from blinking in part of, or the entire screen [most common occurence] to not displaying the entire window when i maximize it, or even worse, LCD 'static' [like in a TV channel]

and accessing any game will BSOD me.

not to mention, Vista diagnosed it as the Nvida GPU problem, so it's obviously either a driver issue or hardware malfunction issue.
But i should also mention: the first day I got my laptop, I played TF2 on max settings, and it was OK at that time.

[Van Cruncheon]

it's a hardware malfunction. the "static" effect is completely indicative of a damaged gpu. send the laptop back to the manufacturer.

[laesperanzapaz]

 :'( thanks prole

NVIDIIIAAAAAAAAAAAA

[laesperanzapaz]

one more question: there's no permananet harm in uninstalling a driver, right? like, I can always re-install from Nvidia's website if i want to, right?

[MCD]

yes.