Is my graphics card Broken? and What one is a sutable upgrade?

[Alfie Smeaton]

Basically i am going to explain what has happened and then what my specs are and then i am gonna ask whats next. might turn into a big of a book but please i need some help!!!

So i started multiboxing for the 3rd time on World of Warcraft a fortnight ago and both my monitors went black for a few seconds and when they both came on wow was fine but my google chrome had blacked out. then a error message popped up at the bottom saying " Display driver NVIDIA windows kernel mode driver, version 306.97 stopped responding and has successfully recovered" this happned once every 2 hours for a week of so cos i never thought much of it. i told my friend and he said your driver prob just need updating so i went on the geforce site and they did so i updated them. Now when i play wow on Windowed Full screen mode ( which basically allows me to use other programs such as the inter net with out minimizing it) it just closes its self about ever minute. my friend reckons my graphics card is knackered. but i dont know

But wow works fine in full screen mode and i can only use one of my screens.

ProcessorIntel® Core™ i5 (i5-650, 3.2 GHz, 8MB Cache)
ChipsetIntel® H57 Express
Operating SystemWindows 7 Home Premium Edition 64-bit
Memory< 8GB
Hard Drive3TB (7200RPM)

GPU Engine Specs:
96CUDA Cores
550 MHzGraphics Clock (MHz)
1340 MHzProcessor Clock Tester(MHz)

Memory Specs:
128-bitMemory Interface Width
54.4 GB/secMemory Bandwidth (GB/sec)
Feature Support:
3.2OpenGL
PCI-E 2.0Bus Support
YesCertified for Windows 7
3D Vision, PhysX, 3D Vision SurroundSupported Technologies
Display Support:
2560x1600Maximum Digital Resolution
2048x1536Maximum VGA Resolution
YesHDCP
YesHDMI
HDMI, DVI, VGAStandard Display Connectors
InternalAudio Input for HDMI
Standard Graphics Card Dimensions:
6.6 inches (168mm)Length
4.376 inches (111 mm)Height
Single-slotWidth
Thermal and Power Specs:
105C CMaximum GPU Temperature (in C)
69 WMaximum Graphics Card Power (W)
300 WMinimum System Power Requirement (W)

Link to graphics card site encase you want to look at something else

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-...GT-340-OEM


So is it broken or is there something i can do to get it back to normal.



On a 2nd note if its broken i would like a new one

So i know its a PCI slot 2.0 does that mean i can use a PCI 2.0 x16 graphics card for example

http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/deskto...-gtx-560ti


or if some one else has a recommendation that would be awesome thanks in advance

Thanks in advance to any one

and if you play WOW and think you can help me add my battle tag and w/m resto(hashtag)1938

[Sammy]

Yes, card is going bad.
Your PCI is a "PCI-E" 2.0
I do not know what motherboard you have so I don't know if it will run the PCI 2.0 x16.
Find your motherboard specs and it will give the info on your PCI-E slot