Artifacts on alt tab and at boot.

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KrAzE

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I am very confused ....I have had this pc for awhile now... and I have had a great time with it. Just recently however, I have had a strange problem. I will be playing a game for a while (half hour or an hour) and I will go to either alt tab or exit the game (and the resolution will change) now sometimes this does it perfectly but recently I have seen a white screen with tons of artifacts...

I can alt tab again and go back in game and everything will be fine... but as soon as I exit that game, it goes back to the horrible artifacts and white screen.

Now I thought what all of you are thinking... overheating graphics card produces this... well I am in sli, (dual 8800's) and I tried running each of these independantly. They both produce the same problem after a certain ammount of time.

The other thing thats weird about this is that I can switch out the cards after powering down, and when I turn on the pc, and once it beeps (boot prompt) as soon as the graphics card powers, it will be a white screen.

If I let the computer rest it will work again for awhile.

So what is overheating? Is it the motherboards nforce thing?

I am thinking it has to be something graphics wise... because how else would I be able to alt tab back to the game and not have any problems..

help!
 
might actually be one of the cards... going to run a 30 min stress test on the "good" card to see if it does it as well.
 
nope. two seconds after loading a game and alt tabbing I get the screen with the black and white artifacts jumping around... I wonder if its the motherboard.
 
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