Rest in Peace - Galain's 8800GTS

**Galain_Ironhide** · March 19, 2010, 10:37 PM

It with great sadness I announce the death of my wonderful 8800GTS Graphics card. We played much M2TW together over the years. It is with sorrow that I must unplug it and turf it in the bin.

Anyway on a serious note... As above my Graphics card died this week and it will be a little while until I can afford to buy a new one. Aside from slow scrolling rates on the internet, my computer seems to working fine, still fast as ever. Could anyone let me know if I keep using my computer with the graphics card still intalled, can I be causing further damage to my computer?

All is obviously not well with it because the "Standby" option for when you want to turn the computer off is blanked out, but I read that usually means there is a problem with a device driver etc. My family still like to use the computer for the net, facebook you name it. So can it be damaged further?

Thanks in advance.

**Jaketh** · March 19, 2010, 10:42 PM

i feel for you, my 8800GT died earlier last year, i cried for a good 15 minutes before purchasing a GTX 260

**Kritic** · March 19, 2010, 11:36 PM

I'm STILL using my BFG 7900GT OC

Can handle anything I throw at it still. Windows 7 64. I was actually thinking of upgrading to a 8800GT heard a lot of good things about that card and it is cheap now.