Is my graphic card useless now?

When I turned on my pc today there were these blue spots in lines on my screen and still are. I tried playing league of legends and my pc could not load direct3d.. Is my Graphic card finished or is there anything I can do?

If you're lucky it's a bad cable. I had a bad DVI cable that made thousands of red pixels to show up on my screen. They moved and flickered, I thought the card was dead but it wasn't.

If you're lucky it's a bad cable. I had a bad DVI cable that made thousands of red pixels to show up on my screen. They moved and flickered, I thought the card was dead but it wasn't.

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If you are able to boot into Windows it is unlikely to be a dead card. Dying cards will give you graphical errors even at the Bios screen.

Try reinstalling your drivers - meaning uninstall your current drivers, reboot, and reinstall the drivers - and checking your cables. Boot into Safe Mode if you have to.

If those don't work and you're absolutely certain it's a graphic card issue, you can still try to resussitate it: Link (the images and video are broken due to ongoing Gamespot hosting issues, but the content is there).

Good luck,

Boz

I reinstalled my drivers and It didn't work. I checked DXDiag and it says I'm using directx11 but I am on Vista and I have a 8800 gts card so is there a way to make my pc run on directx 9 or 10?1kalli1

I reinstalled my drivers and It didn't work. I checked DXDiag and it says I'm using directx11 but I am on Vista and I have a 8800 gts card so is there a way to make my pc run on directx 9 or 10?1kalli1

you could always try baking it :P

im serious about this you n me were about to get ur card high like a kite!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL_uWGcSBo8

okay go watch this next video and READ THE DESCRIPTION:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf3yMzmgT90

Yeah if nothing else Bake it. I just saved my 8800 gts and now its running as good as it ever was bought me some time until my new card arrives on monday :)

Have you tried using the motherboard's GPU?

There should be a vga port on the motherboard.

Try using that for your monitor and if you don't get those same errors then the problem is your video card.