Is my Nvidia GeForce 8500GT going bad?

[The Howling Wolves]

The last 3 days when I booted up my display showed 800x600 so I went to Device Manager and saw yield sign under Display Adapter.
Uninstalled it and did a recovery to earlier date which worked. Now today when I signed in it did the same thing.
Showed a code 43 error.
Is the card going bye bye?
Any and all solutions appreciated.

 

[Patrick]

Most likely, yeah. That's a pretty old card.

 

[The Howling Wolves]

What card would you recommend?

 

[Patrick]

Depends, what kind of board are you working with + what are the rest of the specs, PSU especially?

 

[Corrine]

Do you have the "nVidia GeForce Experience" set to automatically download and install updates (under the Preferences tab > Updates)? The reason I ask is because a new driver was rolled out for the 8500GT on February 10*. See NVIDIA DRIVERS GeForce 341.44 Driver WHQL. If 341.44 was automatically installed, you may need to roll back to the previous driver.

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*Located by searching for the GeForce 8 Series, selecting 8500GT as the product from here: Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Corrine and all,
I did a restore to where it was working then went directly to NVidia drivers official site and download the latest version which when rebooted everything worked perfectly.
The real test is to see how it opens up tomorrow.

So my question is ......



How do I rep myself? heheehhe:)
Dennis

 

[Corrine]

What driver is installed?

No rep here, Dennis. We just click the Thanks link (located in the bottom right corner of the posted reply.)

 

[The Howling Wolves]

I installed the 341.44 Feb 2015 so today I booted up and everything went back to the same problem so I installed the previous one for 2014/rebooted and everything worked for about 2 minutes. There was a flicker and everything locked up. So I will take cover off and check the seating of the card and fan but it looks like the old boy has seen its day.
Glad I have a laptop to save my bacon as it has everything my desktop has but less junk on it.
Will update later today.


Guess I have to give the rep back...