9800 Pro Acting Funny

[-=X=-Factor]

Hi, my Radeon9800pro been acting weird for the past few months. This is wut is happening:

http://www.oqi-members.com/myhome/aznanarchy99/ATIProb/cs_downed_cz0002.jpg
http://www.oqi-members.com/myhome/aznanarchy99/ATIProb/cs_downed_cz0004.jpg
http://www.oqi-members.com/myhome/aznanarchy99/ATIProb/cs_office_cz0000.jpg
http://www.oqi-members.com/myhome/aznanarchy99/ATIProb/cs_office_cz0001.jpg
http://www.oqi-members.com/myhome/aznanarchy99/ATIProb/cs_office_cz0002.jpg
http://www.oqi-members.com/myhome/aznanarchy99/ATIProb/de_dust2_cz0000.jpg
http://www.oqi-members.com/myhome/aznanarchy99/ATIProb/de_dust2_cz0001.jpg

It happens in all of my games and in Windows. I am running

P4 2.26
512 DDR RAM 2700
4.8 Beta Drivers (its happened since 3.9 Drivers)
DX9c
Windows XP Pro

I recently formatted due to malware/spyware problems and it happened before and still happens now. Before i thought it might be overheat and i bought a "turbine" fan that takes up the pci slot under my radeon to help cooling but it still happens

 

[Milenko]

Is your card overclocked? I believe that it is overheating.

 

[sdk]

cs does that at times
or its overheating
test it on another game

 

[Rizen]

Turn down your memory speed, it appears to be artifacting from your RAM being too high.

 

[Yonkec]

yeah that looks like either bad memory or memory thats too hot, i had to rma an old gf4 because of bad memory that caused the same looking checkerboard pattern at stock speeds

 

[-=X=-Factor]

i dont overclock and it happens in every game and in Windows

 

[Arcade44]

My old 9700 pro did that about 6 months ago.
I could never get it to stop so I replaced it with a 9800 pro.

If anyone out there thinks they can save the old 9700 pro or use it for parts then let me know. I hate to throw things away.