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Is my graphic card dead?

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GamerChick - Apr 26, 2010 at 01:45 PM
sharpman Posts 1021 Registration date Saturday May 23, 2009 Status Contributor Last seen October 20, 2010 - Apr 26, 2010 at 04:28 PM
I am running Windows 7 64 bit. I have an NVidia Geforce 8500 card. Recently while playing a game my game froze and crashed my computer. The blue screen that came up said it was trying to restart the display driver but timed out. So I booted into safe mode and everything came up fine. I disabled my NVida card and then restarted and my computer booted up correctly without being in safe mode. Next I uninstalled / reinstalled my correct NVidia driver from their website, everything installed correctly, I rebooted and I could not get pass the Windows 7 loading logo. :( Oooh also the very first thing I did was a system restore cause I wasn't sure what was going on.

Is there a way to check if it's truly dead? Or can I just assume it is? Appreciate the help!
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sharpman Posts 1021 Registration date Saturday May 23, 2009 Status Contributor Last seen October 20, 2010 183
Apr 26, 2010 at 04:28 PM
Trying it in another computer will probably proove either way.

were there any updates to your system prior to this happening.
i had a perfectly good laptop give up the ghost because of a rogue update from microsoft.

had to do a full system recovery back to factory settings and rejected the rogue update.

when you say a system restore, do you mean a roll back? or a complete factory reset?
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