Need help with my PC graphics card

[dougal]

you could try msi afterburner. but it may not work either if it has an error 10

I think itis error 43

 

[ShambleS1980]

you could right click it in device manager and tell it you want to install your own driver. and use one from the MFR website

 

[dougal]

you could right click it in device manager and tell it you want to install your own driver. and use one from the MFR website

Yeah might give it a go. What is MFR ? I tried the driver from Nvidia and the one from Palit's website.

 

[ShambleS1980]

manufacturer

 

[Stedy]

Hi,

If you can locate the BIOS ROM for your card, you can use NVFlash to load it, details here:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-1872554/flash-gpu-bios-nvflash.html

This will restore the card to default memory timings. You must be 100% certain you have the correct BIOS ROM first, a wrong image can make the card useless.
NVFLash will check the PCI IDs of the ROM and the hardware but it is not foolproof.

NibiTor can be used to tweak memory timings, on the fly but you want a semi-stable system and details of the DDR RAM fitted before even trying this.

Tweaking GPU clock speeds takes some trial and error, something I learnt the hard way when developing GPU cards for the embedded market.

Ian

 

[dougal]

Thanks for the help guys but i've given up on the card.

Instead I got myself a very similar second hand replacement. A Gainward GTX 260 216SP Golden Sample with 896MB GDDR3.

 

[Retrograde]

Probably better since 260s should be very cheap, that sounds like a really banged up card you had there.
Had a 7600GS that died at some point artefacting, could never be bothered to even try reflow it.
Though it might not even had the lead free solder problem of that era but something else, I forget.

I could sell ya my Radeon 5770 for a good price but I reckon with postage etc, to Malta you're better off sourcing something from a local seller...

 

[dougal]

Yes that's what I did. Got the Gainward 260 GTX golden sample. Very good card and gives me 50-60 FPS on New Vegas at 1080P with all graphics ultra options turned on.