7800 GSOC goes pink...?

Masamune_Howard · May 22, 2007, 06:48 AM

Hi all,

Having a bit of an odd problem, and not having much luck tracking down the issue. I was hoping someone here might be able to give me a bit of advice! As far as specs go: WinXP sp2, P4 3.2 GHz, 2 Gig corsair RAM, Abit AI7 motherboard, soundblaster Audigy 2, and BFG GeForce 7800 GSOC.

Recently I did a clean reinstall of WinXP SP2. I should note that before I reinstalled everything was working fine, game wise at least. I did suspect a virus, though, and wanted to start over fresh. After reinstalling the OS and getting things patched up to spec, I installed my motherboard chipset drivers first. Then I went with installing the 93.71 Forceware drivers from the nVidia website for my 7800 GSOC (APG) video card. After that I installed my Audigy drivers and such.

Anyway, things seemed to be running fine, until I installed steam and loaded up Lost Coast to do some benchmarking. Lost Coast ran fine the first time through the video test, but then when I tried to turn on AA (x2) and AF (x4), all of the reflective surfaces turned hot pink! It really made the game look weird. I tried turning off either AA and AF, but the problem persisted until both were turned off.

The heat levels are okay (never over 65 C, usually under 58 C in Lost Coast), so I'm not sure that it's an overheating video card. Moreover, later when I tried to watch a video in vlc, the entire video was just in shades of pink! I had to uninstall the drivers, do a driver cleaner (1.5 pro) sweep, and reinstall the drivers to resolve the issue. To make matters more confusing, rthdribl 1.2 runs just fine, without the pink-ness.

Does anyone have any advice for this problem? I'm fearful that it might be some kind of hardware damage to the videocard proper, but I didn't do anything to damage it recently, and it seems to have been fine before I reinstalled XP. Thanks!

tl;dr version: After reinstalling XP, source games and videos played in vlc are hot pink. Video card is not overheating, and drivers have been reinstalled after driver cleaner assisted sweep.

OmegaRED · May 22, 2007, 07:06 AM

How about removing the drivers, run drivercleaner, then install a newer Nvidia driver (such as 94.24)?

JohnDoe47 · May 22, 2007, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Masamune_Howard

Hi all,

Having a bit of an odd problem, and not having much luck tracking down the issue. I was hoping someone here might be able to give me a bit of advice! As far as specs go: WinXP sp2, P4 3.2 GHz, 2 Gig corsair RAM, Abit AI7 motherboard, soundblaster Audigy 2, and BFG GeForce 7800 GSOC.

Recently I did a clean reinstall of WinXP SP2. I should note that before I reinstalled everything was working fine, game wise at least. I did suspect a virus, though, and wanted to start over fresh. After reinstalling the OS and getting things patched up to spec, I installed my motherboard chipset drivers first. Then I went with installing the 93.71 Forceware drivers from the nVidia website for my 7800 GSOC (APG) video card. After that I installed my Audigy drivers and such.

Anyway, things seemed to be running fine, until I installed steam and loaded up Lost Coast to do some benchmarking. Lost Coast ran fine the first time through the video test, but then when I tried to turn on AA (x2) and AF (x4), all of the reflective surfaces turned hot pink! It really made the game look weird. I tried turning off either AA and AF, but the problem persisted until both were turned off.

The heat levels are okay (never over 65 C, usually under 58 C in Lost Coast), so I'm not sure that it's an overheating video card. Moreover, later when I tried to watch a video in vlc, the entire video was just in shades of pink! I had to uninstall the drivers, do a driver cleaner (1.5 pro) sweep, and reinstall the drivers to resolve the issue. To make matters more confusing, rthdribl 1.2 runs just fine, without the pink-ness.

Does anyone have any advice for this problem? I'm fearful that it might be some kind of hardware damage to the videocard proper, but I didn't do anything to damage it recently, and it seems to have been fine before I reinstalled XP. Thanks!

tl;dr version: After reinstalling XP, source games and videos played in vlc are hot pink. Video card is not overheating, and drivers have been reinstalled after driver cleaner assisted sweep.

Well all I can say is that it could be driver related, I get pink graphics on Counter-Strike Source on the floor tiles with my ATI graphic card. However I only used to get it when ALT-Tab'ing to the desktop and coming back in and I haven't seen it for the last few months.

Masamune_Howard · May 23, 2007, 01:39 AM

Thanks, guys. I'll give some other drivers a shot and see if it smooths things over. The only reason I was using the 93.71 version was that it was listed as the latest on nVidia's page. Am I correct in assuming that the 94.24 drivers are beta?

I'm mostly concerned about this being a product of hardware damage, but I can't seem to pin down a way to tell driver weirdness from overheating/artifacting.

OmegaRED · May 23, 2007, 02:29 AM

The 94.24's are WHQL.

May 22, 2007, 06:48 AM	#1
Masamune_Howard DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	7800 GSOC goes pink...? Hi all, Having a bit of an odd problem, and not having much luck tracking down the issue. I was hoping someone here might be able to give me a bit of advice! As far as specs go: WinXP sp2, P4 3.2 GHz, 2 Gig corsair RAM, Abit AI7 motherboard, soundblaster Audigy 2, and BFG GeForce 7800 GSOC. Recently I did a clean reinstall of WinXP SP2. I should note that before I reinstalled everything was working fine, game wise at least. I did suspect a virus, though, and wanted to start over fresh. After reinstalling the OS and getting things patched up to spec, I installed my motherboard chipset drivers first. Then I went with installing the 93.71 Forceware drivers from the nVidia website for my 7800 GSOC (APG) video card. After that I installed my Audigy drivers and such. Anyway, things seemed to be running fine, until I installed steam and loaded up Lost Coast to do some benchmarking. Lost Coast ran fine the first time through the video test, but then when I tried to turn on AA (x2) and AF (x4), all of the reflective surfaces turned hot pink! It really made the game look weird. I tried turning off either AA and AF, but the problem persisted until both were turned off. The heat levels are okay (never over 65 C, usually under 58 C in Lost Coast), so I'm not sure that it's an overheating video card. Moreover, later when I tried to watch a video in vlc, the entire video was just in shades of pink! I had to uninstall the drivers, do a driver cleaner (1.5 pro) sweep, and reinstall the drivers to resolve the issue. To make matters more confusing, rthdribl 1.2 runs just fine, without the pink-ness. Does anyone have any advice for this problem? I'm fearful that it might be some kind of hardware damage to the videocard proper, but I didn't do anything to damage it recently, and it seems to have been fine before I reinstalled XP. Thanks! tl;dr version: After reinstalling XP, source games and videos played in vlc are hot pink. Video card is not overheating, and drivers have been reinstalled after driver cleaner assisted sweep.

May 22, 2007, 07:06 AM	#2
OmegaRED Relapsed Gamer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Ottawa , Canada Posts: 5,626 Rep Power: 171 System Specs	How about removing the drivers, run drivercleaner, then install a newer Nvidia driver (such as 94.24)? __________________ E Penis Specs: <------------- See System Specs

May 23, 2007, 02:29 AM	#5
OmegaRED Relapsed Gamer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Ottawa , Canada Posts: 5,626 Rep Power: 171 System Specs	The 94.24's are WHQL. __________________ E Penis Specs: <------------- See System Specs

May 23, 2007, 01:39 AM	Thread Starter #4
Masamune_Howard DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	Thanks, guys. I'll give some other drivers a shot and see if it smooths things over. The only reason I was using the 93.71 version was that it was listed as the latest on nVidia's page. Am I correct in assuming that the 94.24 drivers are beta? I'm mostly concerned about this being a product of hardware damage, but I can't seem to pin down a way to tell driver weirdness from overheating/artifacting.