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Loudcivic

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  1. My guess would be the psu mate, that 8800 is a monstet, what else u got connected to the psu?

    lol? The 8800 is not a monster at all, it barely draws power off the psu it draws more off the bus. You can power an 8800 off of a 350 watt power supply. Does the mother board have on board video, I assume it does if you had the option in the bios for the initial display. Plug it into the motherboard and set that as initial display. Or if you already did I guess check your other bios settings that maybe when quick boot is on you don't see the manufacturer display and boot up.

    it barely draws power????? then explain why the damn card has a 6 pin that needs to be plugged in since it cant get enough power out of the bus itself. and you say it draws more from that. lmfao i cant believe i just read that.

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    hmm seems to me like it draws some power hey. btw the pci express slot is limited to 150 watts max draw which therefore you sir are wrong. it almost draws full power of the pci e connector at idle

    here ya go look at this if you dont believe me http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/psu/116

  2. unistall drivers. take the card out of the computer and clean it just to make sure its not over heating bad. the idea of taking it out is to re seat the videocard into the motherboard to rule that out. install fresh drivers from the nvidia site. reboot and see if it still happens. could be multiple issues. driver related, power supply failing, motherboard failing

    what kind of power supply are you running? i really hope its not the stock gateway power supply cuz the 8800gt draws some power. i own one

    also it dont matter if it wasnt failing before but it is now. does your power supply have the 6 pin for a videocard? or are you using the 4 pin to 6 pin adapter that came in the box with the card

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