9600XT displays garbage for no reason

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Limp Gawd
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Just wondering if anyone here has any insight on this problem or perhaps has gone through this before.

Basically, I was using my comp yesterday (browsing internet) and out of nowhere, I start getting lines across the screen and it gets worse when I close firefox. Internet explorer seems to have worked slightly better, but the desktop, just about all windows, and everything else was covered with these little lines, maybe my comp just about unusable.

So, after uninstalling, reinstalling, uninstalling, installing older drivers, etc, I had the same problem, but I can get around it by lowering the hardware acceleration, but my video performance is suffering horribly from that.

So, do I have a dead video card? or is this something that can be fixed.

As a side note....I think I'm looking for a decent AGP video card now (unless this thread changes that).
 
Make sure to use driver cleaner on it in between driver installs, I'd give that another shot. Second thing would be heat. How's your air circulation? Is that card one of the ones withOUT a fan on it? I've seen a 9600 with no fan. Try improving airflow.

You could also check temperatures, but I'm not sure how to do that on an ATI card.
 
Temps with only desktop displayed (no vids playing/games - for obvious reason) is 29C. I have a zalmann sink on it right now so I'm pretty sure its not heat. Also, my case never has the side covers on.

But what is this driver cleaner and where can I get it?
 
Found driver cleaner and went through the process of uninstalling, cleaning, reinstalling drivers and no results.
 
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