9800SE AIW dying?

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I am having some problems with my Sapphire Radeon 9800SE All-in-Wonder 128 MB AGP graphics card, and was hoping someone could help me...

All of a sudden I have begun experiencing severe graphical corruption - mostly in 3D-intensive tasks like World of Warcraft, but also on Windows' desktop - especially around icons and the mouse cursor. Weird multicoloured squares also appear all over the screen during the Windows loading screen and when playing videos in Windows Media Player.

I have tried installing/reinstalling the newest Catalyst drivers to no avail. I have also tried putting the card in another computer, and the problems persist. In both systems, I have noticed that sometimes, flexing and moving the card around a bit in the AGP slot helps (though of course making sure not to dislodge it entireley), but the problems return fairly soon after.

Is my graphics card about to die, or can someone suggest anything I can try to fix these problems?

Thanks beforehand!
 
Well, its one of two problemes, AGP slot or video card, thats for sure. Get another AGP card from a friend or something and put it in, if it works then its your card, if it doesnt, then its the AGP slot on your motherboard. I only suggest the slot because you said moving it around seems to help..
 
That's one of my suspicions too, but the video card installed in the other system I tried works fine in that motherboard's AGP slot, while my graphics card doesn't...
 
Well, if you put another card in the same board and it worked correctly, then I would say 99% the card is the problem.
 
its a card problem.. if you do a search for "artifacts in windows", you will see about 500 other threads exactly like this. You're core has overheated and been damaged.. time to get a new card.
 
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