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Crazy texture corruption! Vid card dead?

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Kaldskryke

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I wasn't gettin' much help over at Gen[M]ay so I decided to try here instead.

Since yesterday my video card is having a lot of problems with anything direct 3d. Direct draw works just fine, and I think openGL works too. I thought it might be directX or video drivers, but dxdiag checks out fine for directx, and I just reinstalled the drivers (using driver cleaner, of course).

The card is an Asus V9520/TD (Geforce FX 5200)

Here's the kind of video problems I'm having:
WoWcorrupt.JPG


This is the login screen for WoW, and the screenshot couldn't really capture very odd, blinky, artifacts. It looks even worse now, actually.

I've been told that it looks like heat problems, but I'm running stock clock frequencies in a cool basement with a new heatsink.

Would a damaged memory module cause this havoc, perhaps? I put on some memory heatsinks with thermal tape, and I had to reapply one yesterday.

Is there some sort of diagnostic tool I could use to troubleshoot my problems?

Thanks for your time

CLIFFS
- Crazy texture corruption in Direct 3D
- Doesn't look like DirectX or drivers
- I don't think it's overheating
- What would cause this?
 
It still looks like it could be an overheated problem. Try taking of your side panel and touching the video card on the opposite side that your fan/heatsink are on. Not sure what else, just trying to give you an idea. You could try putting the card in then out (when it's off of course).

GL
 
As I stated earlier, I don't think it's an overheating problem. My case lid is off, the card is relatively cool to the touch.

I've tried reinserting the card numerous times, as the connector seems to be a bit fickle. I've had problems with my monitor losing the video connection halfway through booting, and putting the card back in sometimes fixes that.
 
Sorry to bump things but I'm still having issues

It's not a heat issue, it's not a driver issue.
I've tested the card in a different computer and it works fine. I've put a different card in my computer and things work fine.

What the hell is left? I want to try reinstalling directX, but when I run the installer it tells me things are already up to date. How do I reinstall it?
 
Kaldskryke said:
Sorry to bump things but I'm still having issues

It's not a heat issue, it's not a driver issue.
I've tested the card in a different computer and it works fine. I've put a different card in my computer and things work fine.

What the hell is left? I want to try reinstalling directX, but when I run the installer it tells me things are already up to date. How do I reinstall it?
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As you said, it works fine in another system. Chances are its the mobo. a friend had a ti 4200 and a gigabyte board and it did that, but in my system the card worked great.
 
That looks like artifacting from maybe some ESD damage to the RAM or core. My friend stepped on a 9600se once and it did something crazy like that too.
 
Hi there! I encountered the same issue a few days ago on a friends computer.

First: DO NOT uninstall DirectX!!! OpenGL won't work either... if you've got hl1 lying around: check for missing textures on 3d objects

Get an older ForceWare version (I think 56.72 WHQL did the trick for me) - remove the actual forceware driver and install the older one. fixed!

Must have something to do with nVidias driver 'optimizations'... whatever...

greetings,
redilS
 
Thanks for all the suggestions!

I think BossNoodleKaboodle might be right here. This card has worked flawlessly using the same drivers, same motherboard. It was just a few days ago when I was having very odd no-signal issues with my monitor. I was examining my card and noticed a ramsink falling off, so I found more thermal tape and put it back on.

And though I figured out how fickle my AGP slot is, I guess I might have been a bit too hamfisted when putting on the ramsink :(

I'm still perplexed over how it managed to work in the other computer, though. The other computer was using DirectX8, so perhaps it was allocating textures to memory differently and not using the damaged module? *shrugs*

I guess I'll just get a new card, I wanted to upgrade anyway.
 
Did you drop the video card in such a way that it scratched it? I did that once and scratched one of the PCB wires that fed one of the memory chips. It totalled the card and it looked like the picture above. It only takes a little scratch to kill it. Look closely.

May also want to take a look if you accidentally ripped any capicators off.

I dont know if static electricity would do anything like that either :confused:
 
would you mind running the dxdiag direct3d test? i'd like to know what's happening... if it's really the same problem I encountered with my buddies FX5200, then dxdiag should

- either crash your machine when initializing DX7 or
- show up with a blank screen for DX7 but a normal output for DX8 and DX9 (assumed you have DX9 installed)
 
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