Kaboom

Hey Guys..

About 36 Hrs back.. I was in the middle of an artwork.. and suddenly, my monitor went through a seizure.. Black screen for a few minutes.. I had to reset the system.. When it restarted.. my monitor developed this bunch of crazy flickering pixels.. and Windows 7 went thru multiple crashes.. The multicolored snowy pixels are everywhere..

Ever since, I have been to multiple support forums.. Uninstalled McAfee.. cleared out most unwanted stuff.. Now after 24 Hours.. I am in the process of reinstalling Windows 7.. and the problem is the same..!

Incidentally, I was working on a very colorful impressionistic artwork.. That I hope to share with you guys.. when I have the system up and running..

I don't see this as a verve related Issue.. Though.. whenever some normalcy returned with windows.... opening Verve froze the system ( Taron.. If you have any clues.. !) Please do help me if you can.. I have tried disabling 3Dvision etc.. uninstalled the drivers.. reinstalled.. Now even after replacing windows 7.. The dancing pixels are around..

Does this mean my Dispaly card is totalled..? ( expensive bloody one!) Or do any of you manage to salvage your system from such a predicament.. All/any advise would be welcome.. As the system is down now.. and productivity = 0

[Taron]

Your graphics card is dead! (If your card still has warrenty, you might check into getting a replacement!?)
Your system is perfectly fine, except that your card must have overheated and fried some of its components. Check your card, see what the fan looks like. I've had it that dust totally stuffed up the fan and stopped proper ventilation. Then a game I was playing (warframe) sent it into overdrive, killing the card. Not Verve, though! Despite the power it asks for from the card, any given game that uses hardware acceleration (pretty much all of them!), requires more power than Verve.

So, yeah, that sounds like you need to go get a new graphics card.
Look for the GTX 970, it's doing a fantastic job here thus far and has BIG FANS that won't stuff up any time soon!

Ara are you running 3 monitors on that card? I routinely run 3 but usually on twin cards. Recently I became aware of a heating problem with my card and was at a loss as to why. It turned out my fans were burning themselves out trying to cool the card down whenever I played a game like Diablo 3. When I disconnected a monitor the temperature dropped 15 degrees Celsius. I had to install an app called msi Afterburner which shows graphic card temperature and fan settings and also ram settings and the ability to adjust those settings. It is allowing me to run games at 65 degree Celsius which is acceptable if not ideal. At this point however I would say your card is fried. If you can afford it I suggest this... Twin gtx 970's or 980's running in SLI. This way you can run 3 monitors if you want and have incredible graphics power. If one card burns out you always have the other to back up with. But Always use an app like Afterburner and have it start up auto so you can monitor.

On computer dust. You both may laugh at this. I love building and rebuilding computers. Its a zen thing lol. An old friend asked me to rebuild his. I opened it up and dust fell out along with mice droppings. Talk about nasty lol. I talked him into building a new computer but I wanted to be able to repair and give his old one to another old friends daughter who couldn't afford it. I didn't want to touch it but I took it outside and blew it out with a leaf blower. There was dust flying and mouse turds tumbling. I made sure to wear goggles and dust protector

Ara I hope you have resolved your card problem. Is there a service center in India you can rma the card? It should still be in warranty.

As it turns out my main computers motherboard has pretty much died. It is stuck in a cycle where it fails to overclock and applied settings to the bios to bypass the problem won't stick. So I get to rma it back to asus. I tested my graphics card on this computer and its fine. I am still going to put twin MSI 970's in on the new motherboard and keep the gtx 780 in this one. Running in SLI I can avoid the heating issue I had with 3 monitors on one card.

DDR3 is being phased out on the newer 2011s in favor of DDR4 but I don't see making that switch yet as I have well over $600 invested in 64 gigs of ram so I ordered a newer and more stable generation of the Asus rampage board (black edition v3) that still accepts DDR3. That should be able to carry me for a few years.

So here I sit waiting for cards and motherboard to replace the rampage extreme which I should never have had to rma in the first place. Then I will have to set up new hard drives for separate graphics and gaming usage. set up new raids, network sheesh. This old x58 sabretooth I am using on my backup computer just wont handle the heavy duty usage.

Kaboom is a good term