Hi,

About 3 months ago, my GT8800 in my General Purpose PC died in a similar fashion. I too have an ACER monitor (X223w) but, I think the Display is likely unrelated.

The Fan on my video card died and allowed the chip to fry. The system cooling is quite good, which fooled me because it was very intermittent before it completely died. Replaced the card with another Nvidia (9400GT) card to preserve driver compatibility.

Check system cooling and the fan on the video card, especially since you added additional RAM to the system (increased dissipation). While you are there, check the motherboard capacitors to see if the tops are bulged, leaking (system smells like "fish" inside), or the insulation is shrinking. Same on expansion cards in the system, can happen in the power supply too - exercise caution of course - Capacitors can hold a charge after power is disconnected.


Teeth should have been worth more when we were kids - we all got ripped off. Try to get a tooth pulled (when teeth were being pulled - they do crowns now), for a "lousy dime". Certainly, it is much more expensive to have teeth put back in than removed. <toothy grin>.

Ross